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Piglet will be dead tonight I'm sure. He's weak, getting colder, can't even really walk unless he's leaning on something. This is so sad
I am sorry. It is never easy seeing animals suffer. Have you thought of putting him down instead of letting him suffer:(
 

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I don't really have a way to tonight. I get money tomorrow. I can't bring myself to put it down the country way. I'd want a vet to and I just don't have funds til tomorrow to :( by then it won't even matter.
 
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I caught momma laying on top of him. I think she knows....I didn't want him to smother so I got him out but man :/
 
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Sometimes owning animals is just downright hard. I had a goat with a cleft palate this year and I should have put her down but I couldn't. I treated her for pneumonia three times and said that the next one would be the last. But at 4 months of age she seemed healthy and then I came home and found her dead. It is never easy even when you know it is for the best. :hugs
 

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I've never put an animal down. I don't know that I have the stomach for it. I mean if it was a random wild animal that had been run over and was twitching and stuff maybe. But a tiny little piglet. Ugh. :(
 

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If my husband was home he would have. He's done it to several cows we've had that went lame. I am too sensitive
 

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Sorry I'm just now seeing this.

If it were me I would put it down. While it can be corrected, I don't think it would live a quality life. You don't know what else is wrong with it internally.

Sorry.

:hugs:hugs
 

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Perhaps you should have just left mom on top of him... I would guess that she knows. Sorry, I know it's hard, but it's part of owning animals...
 
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