Feather - Day 4

Well it's beginning to look like whatever's wrong isn't an infection. Even after the 60+g of food I stuffed into him last night he was back down to 817g this morning. He also seems to have stopped fighting. He just sits. He's started frequently choking on the Critta Care formula and is a lot less interested then he was before. I'm still praying we can pull him through this. So I gave him his Baytril and his last dose of metacam this morning as well as a good amount of glucose water to try and perk him up. The urine tests today showed that he's got a lot more blood and protein in his urine then before and the pH has dropped to 6.5. Then he got 24mL of Critta Care. This took him up to 840g. But if anything he's now looking much worse again. He's breathing heavily and beginning to go floppy. With pigs as long as they fight they can get through the worst things. But when they give up, they go downhill rapidly. I've never managed to save a pig after they've given up. I'll keep trying but it's not looking good at all.

Right now he's snuggled down on a snugglesafe in some sunshine and if nothing else is very comfortable. I'm not really sure what else I can do, he's passed the point where it would be safe to anaesthetise him for x-rays/scans, nor id there much evidence that an x-ray or scan would show anything. Most likely cause would be some sort of congenital kidney problem, that was exacerbated by the cystitis.