Ack! Why did Jackie lose weight?

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Lynx
Celebrate!!!

Post   » Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:37 pm


I wish we could just lay out a donut and cake spread and they'd be able to put lost weight back on. Have you tried Critical Care paste?

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salana
GL is Just Peachy

Post   » Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:20 pm


No, I don't have any CC on hand. Is it still possible to order it from Oxbow?

I've also been wondering if Jackie has some kind of inner ear problem. He's fallen over a couple of times while scratching one of his ears, and he has an enormous freakout whenever he's in motion (in the taxi, or when I carry him around) but settles down when I sit down with him on my lap. So I'm thinking he may be feeling some sort of vertigo? He doesn't have any discharge other than his normal amount of earwax and his ears smell their normal Jackie-ear smell.

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Lynx
Celebrate!!!

Post   » Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:26 pm


Maybe not Oxbow but didn't Smith & Fosters or someone else have it? (don't remember who but someone used to sell it at a good price)

Disorientation, dizziness, is disconserting. Guess he'd need antibiotics if it was an ear infection.

Tracis
Let Sleeping Pigs Lie

Post   » Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:36 pm


Sending good thoughts for Jackie.

I believe that you can still order Critical Care through Sef1268's website, from Lambert Vet Supply ($13.21 for one pound).

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JaneDoe

Post   » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:19 pm


"I wish we could just lay out a donut and cake spread and they'd be able to put lost weight back on."

That's how I felt about Pippin :s

Sending good thoughts your way.

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salana
GL is Just Peachy

Post   » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:52 am


Little Jackie is scuttling around like a cockroach. I guess maybe he could have a pinched nerve? I'm going to try to make an appointment for Friday for him. What should I ask the vet? Obviously he needs another X-ray.

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sus4rabbitsnpigs

Post   » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:43 am


Aw poor guy.

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momof911kids
I GAVE, dammit!

Post   » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:18 am


Salana just called me and asked me to post for her. She's on her way to the vet with Jackie. Jackie is breathing heavy, making gurgley noises (like a warthog) when he breathes, he has blood coming out of his nose and mouth, and there's blood in the corner of his left eye.

What should she do besides an xray at the vets?

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Bugs Mom

Post   » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:21 am


Beyond an x-ray I have no advice but am holding good healing thoughts for Jackie. Come on little guy. Stay with us!

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Brimstone
For Rocky

Post   » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:42 am


Oh man. Poor little Jackie, and poor Salana. Thinking good thoughts for both of you.

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salana
GL is Just Peachy

Post   » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:17 pm


Stinky Jackie is actually doing better than he looked. He was only bleeding from the one nostril and it got all over his nose and mouth.

The vet did X-rays of his chest and head. They don't have a dental X-ray machine, just a regular one. His lungs were clear and his heart was normal sized (not quite to the fourth rib). She was worried about a) infection, b) teeth, or c) tumor in the nose. She said tumors in the nose generally eat away at the bone, and his bones looked fine on X-ray, plus there was nothing clouding up the nasal passages. His roots were not elongated and his teeth generally looked good. So she took a culture of his nose and is sending that out to see what kind of antibiotics he should be on, and started him on Bactrim (which he had recently been on for snots).

He did have loud breathing (an episode of "hork"y breathing, and some whistly breathing) but those were distinct episodes and the whistling was immediately followed by his nose bleeding a little more. Generally his attitude is good--he was eating hay in the carrier, and biting the towel to show how angry he was about the whole thing.

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Bugs Mom

Post   » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:54 pm


Hopefully the culture will pinpoint what's wrong. Please don't scare your momma or us like that again Jackie!

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