[Gpdd] [Health] potential impaction

[Laura Carin]

Several months ago I thought Zephyr might be impacted because his poos were 
super mushy and misshapen.  Lots of gpdd people gave me advice and in the 
end I realized he was eating too many watery veggies.  His poos have been 
fine ever since BUT here and there over the last couple weeks I noticed it 
looked like he had a ball of poop that was stuck, but then I would see 
normal poops come out of him in front of my eyes so I thought that was fine. 
Then last night my husband and I decided to investigate, realizing we had 
lapsed on doing normal checks of his bits.  He had a HUGE mass of poop, hair 
and I don't know what stuck in there.  We spent about half an hour working 
on gently getting it out through soaking his bum area in warm water with 
some piggy shampoo, and working with oil and q-tips.  We're going to check 
on it again today to make sure we've gotten everything and we're planning to 
do regular checks with him and his brother, Felix, every few days from now 
on.  My question is, can a piggy poop normally and still be considered 
impacted when he's gotten a mass of stuff like Zeph did?  I thought 
impaction meant nothing would come out, but Zeph definitely poops a ton 
every day.

A concerned Laura and Felix, and an embarassed Zephyr