It was a lovely day in Essex yesterday, the piggies were happy in their run. Well actually that's not true. Millie had a very dirty bum and had a brisk bath with lots of fur rubbing to get the stains out, manky girl. Millie was in a very judgey mood drying off in the sun burying herself in hay and not trusting me at all.
At some point in the afternoon when DH had gone food shopping and DD2 was out with a friend, DD1 noticed the problem. More accurately, shrieks of Mum come here there's blood everywhere And so there was. Over the grass and lifted up the summer house roof and literally pools of blood and splatterings everywhere. I knew it was either Coco's many medical problems or a fight. We checked the pigs. DD1 picked up Coco last. Her paw was pouring blood.
Next came a mad dash for the first aid box and Coco's foot bath.
We decided to treat her in the garden. Between us we dunked her foot to clean it. DD1 held a piece of gauze on her paw while I got to work with tubular finger bandage. I told Coco she was keeping this bandage on and micro-pore taped it in right up to her arm pit (if guinea pigs have arm pits) I did consider we should shave her fur off first but the next question would have been, who's shaver shall we use? I didn't fancy using my LadyShave on Coco and I knew not to ask DD1. So you can imagine the job we are going to have getting the bandage off again.
The resilience of animals is amazing. Once bandaged up, Coco didn't see any reason not to carry on enjoying the garden DD1 sat her on the grass where she started munching as if nothing had happened and can even walk very fast towards the flower beds with it on. Poor DD1 had her hands and feet covered in blood and my hands looked like they had come off the set of a horror movie. We needed a good clean up.
I half didn't expect Coco to survive the blood loss but she is still with us, eating, pooing and peeing. And she kept the bandage on.
The vet is probably a waste of time. Coco had a big scab on her foot which I think she has knocked or nibbled off and that is the cause of the bleeding. Its a shame I thought her feet were getting better as they had scabbed over. Lately she has been walking better on them and they have not been as hot and inflamed feeling.
This reminds me the time DH cut his finger open using my left handed dress making scissors for something in the kitchen. I took him to A&E and they didn't want to take the bandage off as I'd made such a good job of it
I think I'll take a look at her paw tomorrow and think again.
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