I'm taking him to see the vet in the morning - I had a specialist vet treat him last week for a leg and joint problem due to a vitamin D deficiency, he put him on 2mg of Metacam to treat any pain and inflammation, mixed into a spoonful of wet feed and also Zolcal-D 0.5ml orally, twice daily which I give him at 10.00 in the morning and 10 at night, he was beginning to respond well and alot of the swelling had gone down, sufficient for him to be able to get up and walk a little (albeit quite wobbly), until he started sneezing and getting generally weak, loose droppings, gaping and generally lethargic, I heard a sort of click noise the other day as he inhaled and exhaled but haven't heard it since - since this morning he has found it harder to eat his regular grain and kept dropping it as he tried to get it into his mouth, I made up some wet food with mushed up peas, long grain rice (boiled), millet seed (boiled til soft), small pieces of wet brown bread stirred up into a 'porridge', it did the trick and he ate quite alot, he has now though started to shun water (which I put children's dioralyte in to retain hydration lost from his loose droppings), if he doesn't have a good drink when I offer him the bowl I give him 10 ml at intervals. His breathing does seem a bit more at ease after the Baytril, enough that he doesn't appear to be gaping quite as much ( he wasn't doing it constantly, just every now and then, usually at night), when I took him for his leg to be treated he had an x-ray which showed no broken bones, fractures, injuries or any other noticable problems such as tumours or impaction etc, I did mention to the vets that I had a feeling he was coming down with something but he told me since he wasn't gaping very much and I only heard his breathing click once, it wasn't enough to say he had an infection; the thing is I think vet's often overlook our intuition, I can't help but feel angry that thanks to him not giving me something to take home just in case he took ill over the weekend, he's in a bad way now - I think despite my annoyance at having already spent almost £200 to help treat his leg, I'll be taking him right back there tomorrow, and paying another 30 at least for a whole new consultation, because I wasn't taken seriously the first time, but then I'd rather have to part with money than risk a lesser qualified vet take guesses and get it wrong - I was asking about the dose of Baytril though just in case he doesn't want to give him the medication and tries to persuade me to euthanise him, he was given a week to improve and was doing great til he got worse with whatever is causing this, made worse by the fact he's had to wait for any treatment because of the vet, I have alot of confidence that if I can just get him over this he'll get back on track, maybe slow but at least getting there. I'll keep this thread updated and let you know how he gets on tomorrow, I just really hope they find what's wrong and treat it promptly
