This morning when I got up, Chico was sitting on the second floor of his cage when I went out to say Good Morning to him. His back was to me, he was facing toward the kitchen, eyes open. I spoke to him several times and he didn't move, and his breathing rate didn't change. So I reached in and touched his back, and he still didn't move. I petted his head and his ears lowered a bit, and I stroked his back a number of times but he still didn't move. But then, all of a sudden, he seemed to "wake up" and whisked up to the third floor of his cage as if very startled.
Was he asleep with his eyes wide open? I am kind of wondering if he might have epilepsy and was having a petit mal seizure. Can chins have epilepsy? Usually when he's asleep during the day in his hut, when I check on him his eyes are shut or mostly shut.
