Hi everyone,
I'm so sad to be posting this, but I've just gone in to clean my chinchilla cage out and found one of my babies, Hiccup, dead. I just can't figure out what happened to her. We've had her for 7 years, though we don't know for certain how old she is. She wasn't bleeding so I don't think she's suffered any trauma, and she seemed to be eating and drinking and running around perfectly fine this morning. She was just lying on the floor when I went in, not moving at all. It's only been a couple of hours but she's just gone so unexpectedly. Is it common for them to just die like this without any warning?
To make matters worse, we're going to have to put down our youngest, Baby, very soon. She's had dental problems for years, and has recently started getting chest infections and eye infections, and was diagnosed with an abscess behind her eye last week. The vet says that her teeth are in too bad of a state to do anything more with, and with how much weight she has lost recently due to infections and difficulty eating she probably would not survive the anaesthetic to remove the abscess and do any more dental work.
So that means that after seven very happy years, we're going to lose two of our three chins in less than a week. Even sadder, Baby was Hiccup's baby (long story short, Hiccup was pregnant when we got her and Baby unexpectedly arrived a few days later). Now I'm really concerned about our final chin. Will she be okay alone after losing two of her cage mates? They've all three been best friends for seven years, and I'm just concerned that she won't cope.
Any advice on how to support our final chin would be much appreciated.
I'm so sad to be posting this, but I've just gone in to clean my chinchilla cage out and found one of my babies, Hiccup, dead. I just can't figure out what happened to her. We've had her for 7 years, though we don't know for certain how old she is. She wasn't bleeding so I don't think she's suffered any trauma, and she seemed to be eating and drinking and running around perfectly fine this morning. She was just lying on the floor when I went in, not moving at all. It's only been a couple of hours but she's just gone so unexpectedly. Is it common for them to just die like this without any warning?
To make matters worse, we're going to have to put down our youngest, Baby, very soon. She's had dental problems for years, and has recently started getting chest infections and eye infections, and was diagnosed with an abscess behind her eye last week. The vet says that her teeth are in too bad of a state to do anything more with, and with how much weight she has lost recently due to infections and difficulty eating she probably would not survive the anaesthetic to remove the abscess and do any more dental work.
So that means that after seven very happy years, we're going to lose two of our three chins in less than a week. Even sadder, Baby was Hiccup's baby (long story short, Hiccup was pregnant when we got her and Baby unexpectedly arrived a few days later). Now I'm really concerned about our final chin. Will she be okay alone after losing two of her cage mates? They've all three been best friends for seven years, and I'm just concerned that she won't cope.
Any advice on how to support our final chin would be much appreciated.
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