Hello everyone, I'm new here because I have a problem with my Chinchilla and I'm afraid the dutch forum I usually go to takes to long to respond.
A few weeks ago my chinchilla had saliva around it's mouth and therefore we took her to the vet immediately. It turned out that some of her molars had grown wrong and where making wounds in her mouth. The vet took really good care of the molars and gave us some pain killers/antibiotics and liquid food to force feed her.
At home, the force feeding quickly turned to giving her the liquid food which she ate enthusiastically. Sadly after giving her less she didn't start eating her normal food and even raisins take a long time to eat. She only seems able to make her pallets in little piles of powder and doesn't seen able to swallow.
Yesterday we took her back to the vet and he looked again. The wounds are healed and all teeth and molars look fine. The only weird thing he can find is a uvula like piece of soft tissue coming from the top of the soft tissue in her mouth.
My vet isn't sure if this is normal tissue or it might be a tumor or some other kind of tissue that should be removed. Does anybody know if this should be in her mouth?
I don't remember seeing it the first time when he took care of her molars. Our vet is going to look in his books and see if he can fine the answer. I'm really hoping you guys have some experience with this. Otherwise we might have to use our other chinchilla as comparison but then he has to be sedated asswell.