Got my copy/paste going so Ill update here too with the full story: Rachel Blinston 2 hrs This is our descriptive story that i will be sharing..................... I would like to share my story with you and get your opinion about what if any actions can be done. Two weeks ago I went to Russellville KY to buy a mini potbelly piglet for my family as a pet. This past Friday morning I called a vet in the next town over to see about getting our piglet neutered. The vet asked how old Peanut was and I told him 5 weeks. He said yes he would be able to do it and to being him in. That afternoon when my fiance got home from work we loaded our children and the piglet into the car and went to the vet. We got there around twenty mins before closing time and had to wait a couple mins for the vet to return. When he got there he had me being Peanut to the back room and had me hold the piglet by the back legs so he could give a local anesthetic The vet was able to give the first shot when Peanut started to wiggle. While the vet was trying to get ahold of the pig he accidentally poked my thumb with the needle and then preceded to give the second shot of local anesthetic. When he felt Peanut was numb enough for the surgery we all went out to the field behind the clinic for the testicles to be removed. When he was finished with the surgery Peanut was given a shot of penicillin to ward off infection and we paid the bill and left the clinic. When we had gotten home I opened the Carry bag Peanut was in so I could put him in his kennel in the living room when I noticed his intestines were hanging out and in the bottom of the carry bag!! I immediately called the vet to explain the situation and see if Dr McCrory would let me bring him back so he could fix this. He told me its a bad pig. That people would tell me that he had cut the skin between the abdominal wall and the sac but that was just not true. That Peanut would probably die during the night and I needed to call the people that sold him to me and tell them they had sold me a buffled pig and demand a new one. That there was nothing he could do. He said goodnight and hung up. I put my boys to bed and called the vet back. Again I asked if there was anything he could do and he said no. I told him I could not just sit there and see the agony Peanut was in was there anything I could do myself?? He then said that I could push the intestines back in myself and tape it shut. That if Peanut made it through the night that I could come back in the morning and he would see if there was anything he could do. So I went out to the garage and got some fishing line and a needle. I washed my hands and asked my fiance to hold the baby pig while I tried to put the intestines back through the incision they had come out of. There were a handful hanging out and the tube they come out through was small. It had taken me a little over 30 mins to get them all in. I then sewed the incision closed with 3 loops loose enough for fluid to drain but close enough to keep the intestines in. By this time Peanut was cold and his snout was blue but he was still alive and breathing. I noticed he had a lump between his legs where the intestines did did not all go back into the abdomine but were in the sac area. I did my best though. And put Peanut in his kennel with a heat lamp and some blankets in my bedroom I then got in touch with a potbelly pig group asking what I could give Peanut for the pain explaining what he just went through. A woman that is a vet in another state contacted me and we talked over the phone. She told me what I could do for the pain and told me to give him some sugar water to keep his glucose up and to feed him. She then explained that he would have to have surgery to get the intestines in the proper place and to check on him every couple hours. She told me the possibility of death and survival. While Peanut was in pain he was moving around rooting in his blankets, drinking water and eating his food. Come morning he was still alive and eating, drinking, rooting. So I took him back to the vet for surgery. When I arrived at the vet they had me come to the back, put Peanut on the scales, weighing in around 4 lbs, gave him a local anesthetic shot in the area of the lump of intestines, pulled out 4 small choke collars and put them around his hooves, laying him on his back and strapping him down to the table. After a couple mins Peanut was wiggling a little with his upper half Dr McCrory said as little as he was he better not give him another shot because it could put him over the edge and kill Peanut so he tightened the front hooves chains a little. After a couple more mins he ended up giving another shot of anesthetic anyway and waited til Peanut was immobile. Put the blue cover over the pigs belly to where the hole in it was over the area needing operation. The vet took up a scalpel and instead of cutting next to the mound of intestines cut right over the top of them, cutting too deep and rupturing peanuts intestines! He then tossed the scalpel into the sink and said upt, its done now. Pointing and the fecal matter and intestines and said there is nothing I can do now. I was speechless!! I gathered myself and asked him if there was nothing he could do to fix what he had just done and he replied no Then he filled a syringe with dog euthanasia and stabbed Peanut in the chest 6 or 7 times looking for the heart, unable to find it he just injected the syringe into the chest cavity. Waited a couple mins and Peanut was still alive! He then filled a second syringe with more dog euthanasia and stabbed him several more times in the chest til he finally found the heart and emptied the syringe into the beating heart leaving the needle in place until the heart stopped pumping. Removed the needle and the chains, grabbed the crate I had brought him in and threw peanuts lifeless body into it. He then told me take it home and burry it. And this visit would be free of charge. As I took up the crate and started to walk out of the room he again told me to contact the people I had gotten him from and tell them they had sold me a buffled pig and that they need to do away with the entire litter because they would all be bad and that its hereditary and a sign of inbreeding. When I am walking out the clinic doors he hollered to me that if I got another piglet to wait til it was older to get it neutered. Said Peanut was too young to have been neutered. If he truly thought my Peanut was too young for a neuter then he NEVER should have agreed to do it!!
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:15:38 +0000
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