Update on Gwin

[milleniumgypsy]

Thank you everyone for your well wishes for Gwin! I've just been too much of a stressball to reply or update. n_n' I really apprieciated all of the support though! *hugs everyone*

Gwin is still with us, though he's not doing so well. I'm hoping that he'll be ok, we've been giving him all the TLC (and baby food) that he can stand until he tries to wiggle out of our arms. Which is good that he has the energy to want to do that, even if he tires himself out too fast once he's down.

In other pet news, when I went in to work on Monday I found that one of my bettas had died. I immediately cleaned the tank, luckily the snail was alright. And now my single betta (I had a large divided tank) has the whole tank to himself. At least he was having a good day? Though he decided with all the space in the world that he was still going to go rest behind the filter. He is certainly exploring a lot of the time but I found that sort of silly.

Still, while worrying that Gwin was going to die the last thing I wanted to see was another dead pet. :S

Comments

[letsgokomets.livejournal.com]

I hope your baby gets to feeling better. Good to hear he has energy, I always take that as a good sign when one of my pets has been ill. Very sorry about your fish though :(

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

I hope he feels better too! Some days he seems like he's doing better, other days I'm worried that he won't pull through. But he's a little fighter so I'm hoping he'll be alright!

I was sad to see the fish go, but he hadn't been eating very much in the last couple of weeks so I wasn't surprised. He looked healthy and there wasn't anything up with the tank so I guess it was just his time.

[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

That's good to hear. I hope that Gwin will turn out okay ;_;

lol, animals are so funny. I guess that's the beta's favorite spot!

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

I hope so too! *hugs*

I was pretty amused by the betta, I guess he did just like it there. hehe n_n

[arctic-comet.livejournal.com]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for him!

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *hugs*

[du-secondaire.livejournal.com]

Glad he is still with you! Did the vet know what's wrong with him?

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

He wasn't 100% certain of the diagnosis, but the vet said that he didn't work with ferrets all that often. Gwin has adrenal disease unfortenely, which we had been worried about since he'd recently started losing fur (but not in the usual hair loss pattern for it), we'd hoped it was just a lot of spring shedding. That is complicating any other diagnosis, and we were worried that exploratory surgery would be too much for him right now (and that's not getting into the financial part of that).

The vet also thinks that Gwin is older than we originally thought he was, but I'm going to give the people on Craigslist the benefit of the doubt on that since we're at least Gwin's 4th home and they didn't know much if anything about ferrets.

[diemme.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about your fish. Glad that Gwin seems to be holding his own. Did the vet have a diagnosis?

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

He wasn't 100% certain of the diagnosis, but the vet said that he didn't work with ferrets all that often. Gwin has adrenal disease unfortenely, which we had been worried about since he'd recently started losing fur (but not in the usual hair loss pattern for it), we'd hoped it was just a lot of spring shedding. That is complicating any other diagnosis, and we were worried that exploratory surgery would be too much for him right now (and that's not getting into the financial part of that).

The vet also thinks that Gwin is older than we originally thought he was, but I'm going to give the people on Craigslist the benefit of the doubt on that since we're at least Gwin's 4th home and they didn't know much if anything about ferrets.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

Very glad to hear that Gwin is still with you :) I hope he keeps improving.

Sad news about your betta :(

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

I hope so too!

I was sad about the betta, but I gave him a good home for the time I had him so I hope he had a happy life. n_n'