My poor pig Bob, sick or just scared?

magicmoo

Post   » Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:58 pm


Anubis, please don't think that I was criticising your vet. I am sure he has been great for you with other animals. I am only concerned with your piggies life and amnot trying to antagonise you.

I have no experience of Advantage, I have only used Ivermectin.

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Anubis1179

Post   » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:36 pm


Magicmoo, I am sorry I did not think you where. Like everyone else on this board I am sure your number one thing is the health and safety and health of the Guinea Pig.

magicmoo

Post   » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:03 pm


Did you use the dosage calculator, Anubis?

https://www.guinealynx.info/dose_calculator.html

klynne

Post   » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:10 pm


"My vet is a great guy who has never steered me wrong before with any other animal."

Personally, if he is close by, you like him, and have a past history of a good relationship, I wouldn't just arbitrarily say he's no good for the pigs.

If he's willing to learn and update his info on gp treatment, then he may be just fine for simple things--just run things by a more savvy vet and/or here, first. (Don't mean that to sound know-it-all, just saying, better safe than sorry.)

I have vets I like and use for small routine things, but would, for example, not feel comfortable scheduling a surgery with.

I guess my concern is, as you said, that this *was* a small routine thing--or should have been--and you got worrying advice.

You are the one there, and only you can decide if this vet is a fit for treating your gps.

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Feylin

Post   » Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:33 pm


I had the same problem- so I SHOWED the vet Guinea Lynx. If she would have held to her incorrect opinions (lots of pigs have been treated with this and are fine), I would have gone else where. Instead, the vet read the page agreed that she was wrong and decided to research more to find out the whys and hows of the various treatments.

You might want to see how your vet reacts to new information since you like him so well.

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Anubis1179

Post   » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:30 am


I will think about doing that.

I am more worryed about the health of my Pigs then anything else. I am going to keep a close eye on Bob, I am even thinking about setting up a web cam so I can keep an eye on him from work. So if Bob does not start to get back to his normal self I will take him to another vet.

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Mum
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Post   » Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:33 am


If your vet is open to new information you may not need to find a new one. Many vets don't much much about guinea pigs, but some are willing to read all the information you print out for them and go from there. Sometimes these vets can be extremely valuable, but you do have to do the bulk of the research for them.

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PinkRufus
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Post   » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:42 pm


Anubis, I didn't mean to discredit your vet, it's just that some of the things you said sent up a red flag. Even the best vets (being human) can make a bad judgment call. The thing that concerns me is that Bob is not leaving his house. None of my pigs that had lice acted that way, they all acted normally except for the scratching. That's what makes me wonder if there could be something else wrong with Bob (in addition to lice).

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Lynx
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Post   » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:58 pm


Ditto PinkRufus on the red flag behavior.

magicmoo

Post   » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:21 am


Anubis. Just another thought. Magic had mites just before he got pneumonia-the vet said(in retrospect) that it was a sort of sign that his defences had been down. It was only about a week before. I wasn't weighing Magic at that time, and only when I came onto guinea lynx did I do so. I know that I would have spotted his problem earlier had I been doing so.

I can't remember if you said you have been weighing him or not? I am just wondering if he is harbouring something, currently managing to hide it? It is true what is said on here about them being able to hide their illnesses, as Magic was close to death before I got any outward sign at all.

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Anubis1179

Post   » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:02 am


Well he came out of his house today before I went to work. He ate his carrot outside of his house this morning also. But after he was done eating the carrot he went back in to the house. But it was still a small step in the right derection.
I can't remember if you said you have been weighing him or not?
I was not, did not know I should to before I came here.


But I am still going to keep a very close eye on Bob, and if he does not improve by Fri I will be taking him to another vet for a second opinion.

magicmoo

Post   » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:28 am


Me neither, Anubis. Do you have any scales that you could start to weigh him on? I followed the advice from here and weighed every day whilst he was ill, and now weigh once a week. It is reassuring to me.

I just thought that maybe Bob could be nursing something that he hasnt shown you yet, like mine was.

Good luck for Friday, if you need it! (hope you don't)

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