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Chinchillas => Health => Topic started by: Summer on January 17, 2007, 01:57:49 PM
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Laya finally let me hold her! She was the one who wouldn't let any one hold or go in to her cage. But I found what was her fur kind of coming out but not. When I looked closer it was sacbed over with the fur. I pulled some of it off, It looks like it is almost healed. I made an appointment at the vet for this after noon. She has been eat,drinking and pooping normal. I don't know what would have happed.
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Is it a cut/wound or could it be fungus?
Are they blood scabs, or do they look fleshy and pale?
Can't wait to hear what the vet says, doesn't sound like she's sick.
Is she alone, did she have a fight with another?
Poor baby, I'm sure she'll be fine, big hugs for Laya. ::KissKissBig::
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It is a cut/wound.It was blood scabs at one time. The around it is nice and pink. She has been with a male (Ping) for about three weeks and are great friends and before that they were cage to cage. They have never had any tiff that I have ever seen. She is the one in charge. I am so worried. ::scaredspeachless:: Thank You I am sure she will be fine too.
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Wierd....I did post and say that I was thinking about her and to let us know what the vet said. But it never showed up :( Glad to hear that she is doing well though!
Jacqui
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I hope everything goes well at the vet, let us know.
You have all of our good thoughts heading your way.
Julianne
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Hope she's okay. :)
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OK, She cleaned the wound all off and pulled off the matted fur with scab on it. It is helling just fine. It had been there at lest four days or so. I have to her back in a few day for a recheck.Still not sure how it happed yet. I am so glad that she is OK. But I fell like a bad chin mommy for not seeing it before.
I forgot to add that she is now in a cage by herself and has a coller thing on her.
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I'm glad she's doing okay!
I bet she hates her collar though. :::grins::
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I'm so glad to hear she's OK too.
Amazing what they can get into.
Don't be to hard on yourself, hard to see through all that fur.
I wish I had time to check all mine from head to toe every day, but I don't.
One nip from another chin can do a fare amount of damage.
I showed a female a kit one time, and she chomped into his head and scalped him.
They can shimmy behind things and scrape themselves, or maybe something else in the cage is just stuck out a tad.
Is she chewing at it? I guess that's why she's wearing the collar. I hope she's not too upset.
The collar , new cage, and visit to the vet would be enough to upset me let alone a little chinchilla. ;)
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The collar is just there to keep her from doing that. But so was freaked out. Ping crys for her and she spayed me this morning. I don't balm her. I took her away from Ping,the vet did all this mean stuff to her and she has this thing on her neck. I would be mad too! :flames:
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::silly::I know I would not be happy with a collar on. >:(
But, sometimes you have to do things they don't like to get/keep them well. :blush2:
Any time there is an open wound, you have to remove the scab and the fur matted over it ... easiest done with triple anti biotic ointment and a warm moist cloth, to soften the scab for easy, almost painless removal of the scab. Then it needs to be flushed several times a day with a water/iodine solution (it should look like weak tea). Flushing it with this solution helps to dilute (get rid of) the infection and germs. But, only with the OK from your vet first.
This is covered more in detail on my Luv 'N Chins II website at:
http://www.geocities.com/jobernstein1949/ Click on "Nursing & Damage Control"
Warning! The pictures are graphic and not for children or the squeamish.
::wave::
Jo Ann
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Yep that is what the vet did. Laya didn't make a sound, But I had tears in my eye's. She kept reassuring me that she was fine and to worry to much about her. I take her back tommow for recheck. Laya is going to be :flames: at me,but oh well.
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Tough love. ::shrug::
But you can win her trust back when she's well again and I'm sure she'll love you all the more for it. :::grins::
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::silly:: I think chins are much smarter than we give them credit ...
More than likely, Laya knows you are helping her get better.
I don't think she will stay upset long ...
I think they know when you are doing what is best for them. ::nod::
::wave::
Jo Ann
PS How is she doing now???
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Yes, we don't give them enough credit. ::nod:: Laya has NEVER let me hold her until now. The vet said it at one point had been mastitis and that had been for some time.The matted fur was stoping the from healing. But the good news is that healing really good. ::nod:: She has not lost any weight, in fact she gained 8 grams. ::think::
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Yippi, that's great news.
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Laya is doing great! It almost gone. Here is some pix of her the frist I held her. Not the best of me. She was trying to get in my hood.
(http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q303/pyrenees_2006/HPIM2182.jpg)
(http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q303/pyrenees_2006/HPIM2183.jpg)
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::silly::She was giving you a chinnie hug! ::nod::
I think it is so cute when they want to cuddle and say "Thank-you, Mommy."
::wave::
Jo Ann
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How sweet, yes they sure love up around the neck, or anywhere on your body.
Mine go in and out my sleeves too.
I too would take that as a sign of love, cause they'll sure struggle to get down when they want too. ::nod::
I find that once they are well and realize just what you were trying to do they become even more affectionate.
Smart little cookies they are, and Laya looks quite happy to be up with you. ::wub::
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Yes, she is not the same mean little chinnie that I bought home. ::silly::
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::silly::I never like to think of them as mean, just frightened and unsure of a strange place and strange people.
It takes much longer for some to adjust than it does others ...
But when you nurse one back to health, that is often what lets them go from frightened and unsure ...
Into a loving, trusting relationship that bonds them forever to you. :)
::wave::
Jo Ann
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No not mean, but some can sure be spirited. :D
I have a couple of females that will fight with my shoe as I shoo her from an apposing female.
It's hilarious, I'll move her away and she'll go strait back. I'll use my foot to nudge her away and she'll growl at it, smack at it with her hands and chew it if I keep it still.She'll do the same thing with the broom.
Sometimes she just so determined I dare not put my hands on her to move her, she'll chomp right into me.
There's no fear, pure anger because she can't rip the eyes out of the other female.
Let either one of these girls get pregnant and they are the sweetest I own, after it's back "I'm the boss not you". ;D
But I'm bigger, good thing too.
I can just imagine how a new owner would feel with one of these gals.
I'm so glad their mine, I'm spirited too. :D
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No I didn't really mean like that. :doh: More what you guy's said " spirited". ::nod:: She was like this with the the lady that had her first. She has sprayed me,braked at me. But never bit me. I love her and I do anything for her. Boy doe's she get her way "sometimes". At least she thinks she does. Now if I go by her and I stop to see her,she will spay me the next time I go by. ;D No warning,no nothing. She won't let any one but me hold her. I asked My Husband to get her out for me the other day, well he won't be doing that any time soon. She bit and got with her great aim. Laya didn't bite him hard. But My Husband say's she is your baby you get from now on. He will pick up evey one else but her.
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This is what it look like now! I wish I had got one of when it was bad.
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Still looks nasty, poor darling, looks itchy.
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Yeah the fur is growing in and it as little dry on the scab. ::silly::
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::silly::Neosporin (triple antibiotic) will help heal it ... soften it so it does not hurt or is itchy as much and kills the bacteria! ::nod::
::wave::
Jo Ann
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Yep I have been. The scab looks as if it is ready to come off, little dry pieces come off when I put the Neosporin on and it very soft.