pet – Silly Degu

Me: my pet hasn’t been well today but he seems to have been feeling better for a few hours now and should be ok, at least for today

Also me: but I’m still going to sit with him until the vet’s close, just in case

When I’m about to let the degus out for their run they often pull at the door to try and get out and I undo the locking mechanism and they’re still pulling at the door and I’m there like if you stopped pulling at the door you’d be out by now?

Sometimes I’ll marvel at how daft my degus are, they’ll do something and fall and then go to do exactly the same thing again as though they’re expecting a different result. At some point I realised that the second time they do get a different result because I anticipate what’s about to happen and stop them from falling.

Me: no. no. No.

Degu: Oh. I thought you said yes.

My little squeakheart 🐀💕

I’m not very good at talking about the degus’ health problems while they’re ongoing, I’m generally too busy being stressed and doing everything I can for them to deal with anything else.

On Wednesday I thought Daniel was going to die this week (spoiler: he didn’t). He was in for a dental on Monday, came round well, ate a bit on Tuesday and then refused all food on Wednesday morning. I went through every type of treat we have. We saw a vet (who is not our usual vet) and just got “force feed him. what else can you do?”. He didn’t even address the fact that there must be a cause for Daniel refusing all food (I spoke to my usual vet the next day and got actual veterinary care for Daniel).

The whole thing was strongly resembling Thomas’s last week and I really thought I was going to loose Daniel. He’s eating independently (nothing that’s his usual diet but right now I’m happy that he’s eating anything) and there’s been some improvement.

Unfortunately the rate at which the tumour on his leg is growing means it’s pretty certain that it is cancer. It’s on too much of his leg for removing only the tumour to be an option, there wouldn’t be enough skin to close up the operation site afterwards, so the only option would be to remove the leg. With it being a back leg this would severely affect him, much more so than losing a front leg would.

All I can do for now is wait and see what happens, spend time with him while I can and regularly remind all of you how amazing Daniel is and how much I love him!