[Gpdd] ANNOUNCEMENT - Two to join the large piggies club and Cheekie's eye

[Penny Charlesworth]

My large piggies, Guinness and Daisy would like to extend a paw in welcome 
to the new members of the LAPS, Snickers and Checkers. Good to have you with 
us!!

So sorry that Cheekie has an eye problem. What did he do to himself? I have 
read of someone who successfully made a collar to prevent a piggy from 
scratching at some sutures but I have never had to do this myself and I 
would imagine that most piggies would be stressed out by the collar. I had 
enough trouble keeping a sock on my dog and I think it would be even harder 
with a piggy. Maybe someone has worked it out though.

I don't know what oinkments your vet has tried but I use Fucithalmic or 
Chloramphenicol and Optrex is useful for clearing blocked tear ducts. My 
Teazel managed to poke her eye on a haystalk last week when fleeing from the 
noise of the fireworks factory explosion but once the stalk was removed she 
did not scratch at her eye and probably didn't even know what she had done. 
Luckily most eye injuries heal up very easily so hopefully Cheekie will soon 
recover.

The Piggyfriends send their best wishes to Cheekie and hope that he will 
soon be well.

Penny.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DebraStory at aol.com>
To: <gpdd at gpdd.org>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 9:00 PM
Subject: [Gpdd] ANNOUNCEMENT - Two to join the large piggies club 
andCheekie's eye


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> Hello and Happy Holidays to all of our friends at GPDD from Debra and The
> Story Piggies.  The Story Piggies also wish to announce that two of their
> brothers wish to join the "large piggies club".  Snickers weighed in today 
> at a
> whopping 3 lbs and 7 oz.  He is one big guy.  Snickers wants to  assure 
> everyone
> that he is not fat, just one large, muscular boar.   Wheeeeek!  Checkers
> weighed in at 3 lbs even.  He is the youngest of  the Story Piggies, but 
> he is a
> big boy!  Both would like to join the club  and send some wheeks of 
> greeting to
> the other members.  Calico is still  short of 3 pounds, but he wants 
> everyone
> to know that he is working on it.   Maybe with all of the Christmas 
> treats,
> he will make it by next year.
>
> All of us send healing thoughts and wheeeeks to the sick piggies on the
> digest, and best wishes to their slaves as well.  We hope everyone will be
> feeling better very soon.  Cheekie is still fighting an eye problem.   He 
> has been t
> o the vet two times already and has tried two different  ointments.  We 
> have
> another call in to the vet today, because his eye  is still not healing 
> up.
> Cheekie seems to keep scratching it with his back  nails.  This is 
> probably
> keeping it irritated as well.  His nails have  been cut and filed, but 
> they can
> still irritate a delicate eye when he  scratches.  Has any one had any 
> success
> with trying to keep a piggy from  scratching an injury?  I can not imagine 
> a
> cavy keeping a sock on his foot  or wearing a collar around the neck.  Any 
> ideas
> would be greatly  appreciated.
>
> Wheeeps  From:
>
> Debra, Calico, Snickers, Lilac, Cheekie, Checkers, Princess and  Creampuff
> Remembering Taffy, Patches, Peanut and Pumpkin at the Bridge
> _http://hometown.aol.com/debrastory/index.html_
> (http://hometown.aol.com/debrastory/index.html)
> _http://hometown.aol.com/debrastory/page1.html_
> (http://hometown.aol.com/debrastory/page1.html)
>
>


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