[Gpdd] MISC. RE: Several Postings

[Candy G.]

Greetings, All - sorry for including so many different responses in one 
posting.

THANK YOU:
Words cannot do justice to the gratitude I feel to all of you who have been 
so wonderful in offering your thoughts and prayers for my family in 
Mississippi and Slidell, LA.  We have finally located everyone and all are 
alive and uninjured.  Many of them are "flattened, flooded, or both", but 
very happy to know that everyone made it through.  Also, miraculously, all 
pets are okay and with their families.  I cannot comprehend the good fortune 
with which we were blessed and I will forever be thankful for it.

FASTING:
The absolute longest that I would keep a piggie off food would be three 
hours and that would be letting the piggie eat as much as he/she wanted 
right to the last second before lifting the food.  Water would be two hours 
at very longest (NEVER longer), with VERY good hydration right up until 
lifting water.  Piggies should never, NEVER fast "overnight" - when your vet 
tells you this, they are basing that on cats and dogs.  DO NOT EVER DO THAT, 
and please respectfully tell them why you cannot do it so that they don't 
continue to make that mistake with other piggies.  (Lisa, thanks so much for 
the fantastic information you posted about this and the incline wedge).

"SECRET SANTA" for KATRINA SURVIVORS:
Count me in!!!  Who do I need to contact??

RABBIT AND INSULATION:
I would listen closely for at least a couple of weeks for any unusual lung 
or respiration sounds, i.e. wheezing, snuffling, "croupy", wet breathing 
(including runny nose), or labored breathing - just anything that isn't 
usual for Harvey.  Also, I would check pooh and rectal area two or three 
times a day for a couple of weeks for any unusual discharge or bleeding, or 
for blood or mucous in pooh.  The insulation is spun glass and can cause 
extreme inflammation if inhaled or ingested but, even in a small animal, 
might take a while to show observable symptoms.  I am so glad you found 
Harvey.  Please plant a soft kiss right between his beautiful ears for me.

RE: JESSICA FROM LAKE CHARLES:
Donna, thank you for reminding us of her.  Please let us know if you are 
able to locate her or any information on her.

RE: LEILA IN M'SIP:
Thank you SO much, Judi, for letting us know that Leila is okay.  I had 
really been worried aobut her.  And thanks again, Cindy, for getting her 
information to me.

FLINT:
Lisa, I am so glad to hear that dear Flint is doing okay.  I laughed aloud 
at your loving care package that you made for him. Wonderful!!!  I know he 
appreciated having all of his favorite things to munch on when he woke up.  
I have never heard of mushy testicles.  Weird.  Would you please let me know 
if you find out anything further on this?  Give that sweet boy a little kiss 
for me.  I'm so glad that he is okay.  Oh - also, did they tell you to keep 
him away from the girls for another few weeks incase he has any little left 
over swimmers?  I was advised to do that with Topper and I just wondered if 
other vets advise that as well.

LOVE AND WARM THOUGHTS:
For all of you who have lost a piggie or have a piggie who is ill, it breaks 
my heart that I am so jammed up now that I can't write to each and every one 
of you personally.  Your situation is one that deserves very induvidual and 
specific words of love and comfort.  Please know that I think of each of you 
many times each day and, with each thought of you, I am sending love, 
strength, healing, courage, and peace.  Truly, you and your piggies (and 
other pets) - those who are ill, those who are gone, and those who are left 
behind - are being held close in my heart and thoughts.

Candy; Topper and Mollie (and X)