ImmyS
Well-Known Member
Yesterday afternoon and today Arlo has been acting a bit odd. When given a bucket feed or you attempt to feed him by hand as soon as his lips make contact with the food in the bucket/my hand, he snatches his head away and head shakes, been scratching his lip and pawing the ground and just looking a bit irritated. Watching him eat his hay, he does the weird snatch for the first couple of mouthfuls then seems to be fine and munches on happily, also grazing just fine.
Initially thought maybe teeth, but he had the dentist out Monday and all is well, hacked him today and no issues with taking the bit/contact etc and once any food is in his mouth he seems to be chewing and swallowing perfectly normally. I thought maybe he had been bitten/got a thorn or something in his lip which was irritating him, but I had a good prod and look around, checked all his lips and gums and couldn’t see any wounds, lumps or bumps.
Any experiences of this at all? If it continues I’ll be getting the vet, but not too worried as he’s eating/drinking normally and very chirpy in himself otherwise.
Couple of videos of him this evening, not very good but you can see the twitchy behaviour
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Initially thought maybe teeth, but he had the dentist out Monday and all is well, hacked him today and no issues with taking the bit/contact etc and once any food is in his mouth he seems to be chewing and swallowing perfectly normally. I thought maybe he had been bitten/got a thorn or something in his lip which was irritating him, but I had a good prod and look around, checked all his lips and gums and couldn’t see any wounds, lumps or bumps.
Any experiences of this at all? If it continues I’ll be getting the vet, but not too worried as he’s eating/drinking normally and very chirpy in himself otherwise.
Couple of videos of him this evening, not very good but you can see the twitchy behaviour
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