Hope is not right. I KNOW he is not right, but what is wrong, I don't know. Whatever it is is up and down and comes and goes.
He was 'odd' for a couple of weeks, then got an odd walk (lower end pushed down) which we put down to a UTI after looking at all the options. His walk returned to normal yet he was still odd.
Last week he had his myxi vacc and the vet checked his teeth and he had some spurs done on Wednesday. My vet is confident that this was what was wrong. I asked that if he thought there was any concern to do a skull x-ray and/or a whole body x-ray whilst under a GA (to avoid it happening again). He said he felt there was no need.
However, on Wednesday he bounced back really quick and started to eat very soon after coming home, yet today he is not interested in food (he had a grand total of one pellet for breakfast). There are also a good few excess cecals around the cage (and whilst I'm not sure which one they belong to, I would suspect him because he does have a tendency to do that when feeling low.
He's not right. I can't take him back to the vets yet because all they will tell me is that he is still recovering from his op and he needs time to settle. I know my boy and he's not right. I'll have to wait until Monday unless he eats something soon in which case he will have to go today.
I feel like I'm failing him.
He was 'odd' for a couple of weeks, then got an odd walk (lower end pushed down) which we put down to a UTI after looking at all the options. His walk returned to normal yet he was still odd.
Last week he had his myxi vacc and the vet checked his teeth and he had some spurs done on Wednesday. My vet is confident that this was what was wrong. I asked that if he thought there was any concern to do a skull x-ray and/or a whole body x-ray whilst under a GA (to avoid it happening again). He said he felt there was no need.
However, on Wednesday he bounced back really quick and started to eat very soon after coming home, yet today he is not interested in food (he had a grand total of one pellet for breakfast). There are also a good few excess cecals around the cage (and whilst I'm not sure which one they belong to, I would suspect him because he does have a tendency to do that when feeling low.
He's not right. I can't take him back to the vets yet because all they will tell me is that he is still recovering from his op and he needs time to settle. I know my boy and he's not right. I'll have to wait until Monday unless he eats something soon in which case he will have to go today.
I feel like I'm failing him.