Hi,
My chinchilla Egon is now 12 years old, and he’s always had some issues. But now I can’t seem to help him, he’s losing weight fast. My regular vet has sadly fallen off a horse and is badly hurt, and we can’t see her anymore. We have no vets with chinchilla experience nearby.
6 years ago we had similar issues and we went 300 km away to a vet that many claim is good with chinchillas. They made x-rays and said Egon has malocclusion and is going to have to be put down within a year maximum. His teeth are going to pierce his eye-socket, they said. He’s now 12, and this hurt my trust in these vets a little bit – but I’m saving up so we can go there again. Everyone makes mistakes and I really need to try everyone I can at this point.
Egon has the following issues:
• Few droppings, they’re small and thin. Usually hard (though they’ve always been).
• He paws at his mouth.
• Gnaws teeth sometimes.
• One of his incisors grows too fast and is cut every 2 months at one of the local vets.
• Doesn’t eat hay, and has never eaten hay except when he was < 2 years old. He's never liked toys.
• Weights 448 grams, usually weighs 620. Was at his normal weight 2 months ago.
• Eats critical care with appetite and begs for more. Eats 2-3 pellets every day but crumbles these. Still going down in weight however.
• A bit of a watery eye, but very much less than what he’s had the first time (6 years ago).
• Runs around a lot and talks a lot when doing so. Doesn’t seem to be constipated? Though for every day he’s less and less playful.
• Gets metacam once every day (2 drops) because of his teeth so he would be able to eat. He’s been on metacam for several months, but we give him a lot less than he’s prescribed for.
• He’s sometimes a bit wet under his mouth. I suppose his teeth are causing this?
We brought him to the vet recently because he didn’t eat so much and he made strange noises from his nose when he was running, like he was sneezing. The vet looked in his mouth (after cutting his incisors) and said one of the back teeth looks irritated (the flesh is too much red, not sure how to translate – hope it makes sense) or swollen.
She also heard a strange noise from his heart or lungs, but wasn’t sure what it was. The other two times we went there to cut his teeth the vet didn’t hear these sounds anymore, so she ruled out heart murmur.
Wow. Can anyone even bother reading all of this? I’m not sure where to begin and we couldn’t get an appointment before the 28th. Could it be his teeth? Could it still be malocclusion?
I’m guessing surgery is out of the picture since he’s so old. This pains me a lot. :( I would pay anything for him to survive just one more year.
Yours sincerely,
Stefan
My chinchilla Egon is now 12 years old, and he’s always had some issues. But now I can’t seem to help him, he’s losing weight fast. My regular vet has sadly fallen off a horse and is badly hurt, and we can’t see her anymore. We have no vets with chinchilla experience nearby.
6 years ago we had similar issues and we went 300 km away to a vet that many claim is good with chinchillas. They made x-rays and said Egon has malocclusion and is going to have to be put down within a year maximum. His teeth are going to pierce his eye-socket, they said. He’s now 12, and this hurt my trust in these vets a little bit – but I’m saving up so we can go there again. Everyone makes mistakes and I really need to try everyone I can at this point.
Egon has the following issues:
• Few droppings, they’re small and thin. Usually hard (though they’ve always been).
• He paws at his mouth.
• Gnaws teeth sometimes.
• One of his incisors grows too fast and is cut every 2 months at one of the local vets.
• Doesn’t eat hay, and has never eaten hay except when he was < 2 years old. He's never liked toys.
• Weights 448 grams, usually weighs 620. Was at his normal weight 2 months ago.
• Eats critical care with appetite and begs for more. Eats 2-3 pellets every day but crumbles these. Still going down in weight however.
• A bit of a watery eye, but very much less than what he’s had the first time (6 years ago).
• Runs around a lot and talks a lot when doing so. Doesn’t seem to be constipated? Though for every day he’s less and less playful.
• Gets metacam once every day (2 drops) because of his teeth so he would be able to eat. He’s been on metacam for several months, but we give him a lot less than he’s prescribed for.
• He’s sometimes a bit wet under his mouth. I suppose his teeth are causing this?
We brought him to the vet recently because he didn’t eat so much and he made strange noises from his nose when he was running, like he was sneezing. The vet looked in his mouth (after cutting his incisors) and said one of the back teeth looks irritated (the flesh is too much red, not sure how to translate – hope it makes sense) or swollen.
She also heard a strange noise from his heart or lungs, but wasn’t sure what it was. The other two times we went there to cut his teeth the vet didn’t hear these sounds anymore, so she ruled out heart murmur.
Wow. Can anyone even bother reading all of this? I’m not sure where to begin and we couldn’t get an appointment before the 28th. Could it be his teeth? Could it still be malocclusion?
I’m guessing surgery is out of the picture since he’s so old. This pains me a lot. :( I would pay anything for him to survive just one more year.
Yours sincerely,
Stefan
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