just make sure it's the care+ ones as they do a different nugget as well - xtra vital and those are just normal i think. i think they must taste really good as well, i gave them to my other chins and they love them. just be careful with changing food given the bloat situation. i would not give him any raisins or treats or anything other than nuggets, hay, maybe rolled oats every so often.
ah, that does make sense. it could be stress response christa - it does affect gut.. you never know.
well, for the time being, she's good. after the dental - this was in november, i got her at the end of october but she wasn't strong enough for the anaesthetic so i had to 'fatten her up' a little first - my vet thought she'd need another dental in two months in case there are spurs. i obviously can't see her molars but the fact that her incisors are completely straight now and she's eating really hard stuff like the nuggets and quite likes biting into wood (as long as i hold it for her), her other vet (same surgery, she was treating her gi stasis.. and respiratory infection she managed to get while in stasis) thinks she won't need one. the root is still there but it's ok for now, there's no puss or anything and it's not obstructing anything. the roots can actually slowly get smaller with the right diet and i think hers is getting slightly smaller. if there's any problem with it in the future she will have to have an incisor removed together with the root but hopefully that won't have to happen.
she just managed to work it out herself! i've been trying for months with all different types of hay and all. this morning i noticed that there was less hay in the bowl - although in the past she would try to eat it, like a watermelon slice rather than chew the end off and fail and get frustrated and throw it away - and i gave her a piece of hay and she just ate it! i had to go to work and when i came home, i gave her one and she didn't eat it. so i thought, well clearly that was a fluke. but then in the evening i gave her another one and she ate it and then like five more! she can do the flat wide ones but not the stalky ones. it's quite funny to watch her because she still gets surprised when it splits in two and things like that
i think she must have watched the other chins.
you know.. mae is missing a back leg. when i got her, i asked and they told me she got it trapped when the previous owners were out. this is reasonably common so i assumed that she broke it and had to have it amputated. about two weeks ago though, i was talking to the rescue again and i was saying that i wondered which vet took her leg off (i live on a small island) as we could find out more about her if we knew that. well turns out that she chewed it off and these people DIDN'T TAKE HER TO THE VET!!!!!!!!!! i told her vet and asked if there could be any problems as a result and she said that she actually did a very neat job at chewing her leg off and it's fine. she was horrified though. so you can imagine what sort of people had her. she had about a week to live when i got her. and i didn't know how long she was going to live because we were really worried about the teeth, especially if there were any elongated roots in the top arcades but thankfully that was ok.
she is extremely affectionate, absolutely loves me, i've started doing this 'pretend grooming' where i scratch her around her eyes and nose and all like they would do and she absolutely loves it! she has this skin lesion on her chin which is not healing because the root that's lower down is pulling on the skin - it doesn't bother her but it oozes a bit of gunk and she hates having it cleaned if i take her out of the cage. when i do my pretend grooming, she is perfectly happy for me to tug on any bit of her face!