[Gpdd] Gpdd: (Rainbow Bridge) (Finnegan); (Healrh) (Fiji)

[Ellen Garrison]

Hi everybody

This is about the piggy whom had been in poor living conditions I adopted and had named Finnegan.

He passed on to the beautiful Rainbow Bridge due to a number of ailments.
I had emailed a couple of you and mentioned I thought he was crossing over.  I have just been quite busy and do apologize for not coming back on here sooner.
He was buried up in a pretty place in the northern part of this island.
It was quite an ordeal and exhausting.  The lady who had him was very clueless about everything Cavy, so much so that initially I wanted nothing to do with her nor her family after Finnegans' passing, it was way too disconcerting. I unfriended her, etc. Finally I sent an email telling her how bad off he was when I got him from her ~ that we went to the vet, his mouth was diseased, etc and scolded her in a gentle way about his departing and that should she decide on another cavy it's best she study up on Rodentology, etc because he was really in a bad way.  But now he is in a better place.

Currently, although all 5 cavies, 2 chinnies, bunny, and silly indoor cat are all doing quite well, I have Fiji the white boar to contend with and we are going to the vet for Fijis' dental work Sunday. Fiji also had a sebaceous cyst the size of a cranberry near his grease gland, the vet expressed it out but it seems to be filling up again. I have had 2 other piggies have this type of large weird cyst which is really, if analyzed, a waxy keratin substance with no smell, just bizarre, his mom, Petra, had one and so did Hina'u, both which were removed surgically. Both had been much bigger, too.  Fijis' by his grease gland looked uncomfortable, so he has been on childrens' ibuprofen and/or metacam for inflammation...and also the vet wants him on baytril, probably as a preventative measure; his teeth aren't very bad but then the vet could tell there's a malocclusion. 
I am also giving him Daktarin oral gel, he eats his favs which are cucmber and tomato and today I cut his tomato up and offered it to him on a little sushi plate, and he ate it all up!! Yay. Easier than giving oral critical care or critter be better which he is starting to dislike.
Hopefully, all will go smoothly for his dental work.

Best to all,
Ellen