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General Breeder Chat / Re: Kit died, momma in distress after death

« on: June 24, 2010, 07:36:05 AM »

Update:
Sorry it has taken me so long to respond, getting to the computer has been all but impossible with my schedule over the last few days.
I was able to call the owner on Monday and thankfully the chin is eating and they were able to let her out of her cage and give her run-around time and she has stopped trying to destroy things all night long.
I'm not all that familiar with chinchillas and I know next to nothing about breeding them but if I had to wager a guess, I'm thinking that the momma chin was convinced that her baby was still alive and was trying to get out to it.

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General Breeder Chat / Re: Kit died, momma in distress after death

« on: June 19, 2010, 11:47:55 AM »

Thank you for the information, I will pass that along to the owner.  I might get the chin back, she (the owner) is not sure what she is gonna do yet.  The chin has been tearing at her cage and trying to get out all night and keeping the owner and her kids up.

When you say "cuddle buddy" I'm picturing something about the same size as the kit made out of fleece, is this right?

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General Breeder Chat / Kit died, momma in distress after death

« on: June 19, 2010, 07:35:22 AM »

I am a small pet shop owner from Southern Michigan, recently I had a customer contact me because her chinchilla was pregnant when she bought it and the mother lost the baby and now she is not eating and has become anti-social.

Is there anything I can tell the owner to help the mother through this process?

The baby was born about 3-5 days ago and died 1-3 days ago.
The mother was not producing milk, they contacted a vet and were told to try to feed the baby syrup because it was going into hypoglycemic shock.  They took the baby and tried but were unable to keep it alive.  They took care of the dead baby and performed a funeral, but I suspect the mother chin thinks her baby is still alive because they took it before it died and didn't show it to her after the fact.

After losing the baby the owners contacted a veterinarian and were told to clean and sanitize everything to get rid of the smell and to keep the mother away from the place where the baby was born.

Today they contacted me and told me that; the mother is now losing hair, has become snippy and bitten the owners daughter (which she never did before), is not eating, is tearing up her cage and making a mess of it and has been trying to get out of the cage to get back to the place where the baby was born.

Any information that you could pass along would be wonderful.  Will the mother recover from this or could they end up losing the mother too?