Scruffypig is back at vets😒

[FernieB]

Noticed yesterday that poor Scruffy had a cloudy eye, so he's been whisked off to the vet this morning. We suspect he has a minor injury to his eye, so he's on drops and anti-inflammatories which muggins here has to get into him. Any tips on applying eye drops to pigs would be welcome.

Poor boy was just starting to put on a bit of the weight he lost after Smoothpig died.

Cucumber is your friend and its green . Something to eat distracts them while their eyes are being attended to.

Eye drops? Or ointment? Millie has had ointment which has been easy. If you've got runny drops that sounds trickier.

Is the anti-inflammatory Metacam? If it is, you'll have no problem. Coco practically eats the syringe, she loves the taste so much

Cucumber is your friend and its green . Something to eat distracts them while their eyes are being attended to.

Eye drops? Or ointment? Millie has had ointment which has been easy. If you've got runny drops that sounds trickier.

Is the anti-inflammatory Metacam? If it is, you'll have no problem. Coco practically eats the syringe, she loves the taste so much

I succeeded with drops using celery leaves as a distraction. So that was easy enough. Scruffy does not like anything by syringe and fights me over it, but that's tomorrow's problem.

What was wrong with Millie's eye?

Fernie she poked herself in the eye with hay on two separate occasions. Silly pig too thick to learn from the experience first time round

Get well soon, paw holds from the newbie pigs. (Can we have a parsley thingy please?)

Aww poor Scruffy

Probably a rogue claw caught him. But at least catchng and treating it early is good so he's on the right track.
GP3 had a scratch on a Friday night , vets on the Saturday lunchtime, eye had healed.

Do you need to syringe antibiotics into him? They can be right little blighters if they're ill and fighting you. Towel wrap to imobilise and hopefully it'll be over before he can think to resist.

Anti-inflammatories not antibiotics (didn't read properly)

Sorry to hear about scruffy pig, Fernie. Hope he's on the mend soon.

Bit of parsley or broccoli leaves were the bribery of choice when I had to take care of our tricolour pig after his big fall out with his brother (no eye injury but various wounds to clean, tricolour was not impressed with the notion of wound cleaning but the food proved enough of a distraction to enable me to get on with it!)

Scruffy update!

He's been taking his medicine and eye drops nicely according to him (my version of events differs) and is doing well. Had a check up at the vets and they are pleased with his progress - his eye looks much better. Going back next week for another check. In the meantime I have to keep on pig wrestling to get his meds into him. Missing Smoothpig who would get all excited when I approached with a syringe.

All there.
I'd say that constitutes "nicely"

I'll bet the Scruffyone goes back to his Ginger Nemesis Nephew and says "Rasp. I'm still AlphaPig. See all the attention I get"

Good to hear he's improving, it is so worrying when the piggies are unwell.