[Gpdd] HEALTH: Wheezing Piggie
Luita Spangler
luitad at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Sat Mar 24 06:41:17 EDT 2007
Does anyone have any ideas about what might be causing Ernie to wheeze?
He is a somewhat older piggie, about four and a half years old (he was a
rescue, so I don't know his exact age, but I think he was between 6 - 8
months when I got him four years ago). He isn't quite a LAPS candidate,
but is near to it. Insofar as I can tell, he doesn't have pneumonia,
seems perfectly well, gets regular floor time, sleeps a lot, as befits
an elderly gentlepig, but also has moments of tearing around his cage as
if competing with the Indy 500. He has a good appetite - a splendid
appetite, I might say - and the wheezing isn't continuous. It doesn't
seem to be related to a hay allergy, because when I give the pigs
fresh hay, sometimes he'll be wheezing, other times not. Days go by
when he doesn't wheeze, and then he'll start up again. I hesitate
to whisk him off to the vets, because her usual response is to give
antibiotics, no matter what, and I'd prefer to avoid the digestive
upset that always accompanies antibiotics as much as possible.
Naturally I'll go if this goes on, but I'd also like to be armed with
some well-informed ideas and possibilities from other GPDDers abut what
might be going on. I just can't seem to find a pattern here.
Luita
Bert and Ernie, the wheezing wheeker
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