Thanks all for your well wishes.
SO! He is being a stinker. Doesn't want to eat or drink really and I am not sure when he stopped pooping, but I cleaned up his room this morning say around 9:30. At noon? I went back in to sit and have a drink and relax for a moment. I had been doing outside yard work.
No poop, his pellets and water were untouched and he was sitting in the same place he was this morning. Didn't care I went in there either. That is SO not like him.
I called the Vet..Dr. Bishop was in today..made the appointment and we went.
She said:
He has some wax build up in his ears. More in the right than the left, but there is nothing wrong with them. His teeth look good for now but if he doesn't start eating more hay we might encounter a problem soon on that accord.
His tummy sounds fine, but she could not really feel the "line of poop"? that is normal. We did the gram stain. It shows nothing bad. No coccidia, no clostridum, no bad yeast etc.
She said say away from the sugars. She wants to see him on some romaine, lay off the pumpkin because it could be habit forming in a sense. That he won't eat because I took it away now sort of thing. (I am not repeating it all as she said, but it is the general idea.
We just got home 10 minutes ago. So I am to give him a little time to settle back in and see if he eats. If by 4 - 4:30 he still hasn't touched anything I am to start with critical care. She said that should hydrate him well enough so don't worry about forcing water on him. 30-60cc's every 4-6 hours. Small poops show he is not eating enough, being so brittle shows he is not drinking enough.
She would like to see us steer away from adding the white grape, start to gradually change over to the timothy based pellet and leave off with the alfalfa hay when we finish this bag. He has achieved his full body mass. She does not feel he will get any bigger. Maybe 4lbs. He is 3 and half right now.
There is more...but my head is jumbled with everything we went over.
She said this could kind of be a pattern with him. Eats a lot, stops...kinda have to kick start him again and so on. She was not concerned with the poops we showed her. She felt good about them except for how dry they are. If things are not improving within the next few days give her a call. But she feels we should be just fine.
She also felt the changes in weather, all these ups and downs we have had, and his hormones in overdrive can all contribute.
He has a neuter appointment set up for the 8th.
She feels this could just be a sort of pattern with him.
I think that is about it...just wanted to let everyone know where we are....so please keep your fingers crossed he will start eating for me...and now I am off to annoy him to no end to eat something.
Sigh....
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