As some of you know, we adopted Edgar from rescue/foster in January where he had been for three years and he came to us without vet check, so it was our vet who discovered the same day that he had terrible gum disease. Two months later he had 12 teeth out but a month later we are still struggling to get his gum disease under control. I feel so sorry for the poor boy. We've tried Antirobe (incredibly no effect), Convenia injections, Metacam (it gives him the runs - a shame, as this has worked to bring Pepsi's gum disease under control and she's 10 years older than Edgar), and today we've started steroids, which I know some of you don't recommend for gums, but we're struggling to come up with alternatives. At this rate he faces another dental as of the teeth he has left only a few are decay free. The vet is still confident that we can get it under control but it's all rather demoralising and I feel so sorry for poor Edgar who is a wonderful loving boy and obviously we would do anything for him. He is happy, playing, eating, loving, using his tray fine, and looking after his sister Lou Lou, but obviously he must be feeling discomfort. The vet had a panic today about FIV until I reminded him he had tested negative the first day we brought him home, thank goodness.
I was embarrassed that he had put on nearly a kilo in the three months he's been with us, so I must keep an eye on his eating of the others' left overs. He was 5.1 on Jan 24, today he's 5.9!!
Any out of the box suggestions for gum treatment, lovely people? Thank you for reading another Edgar post!
