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Health / Re: Daphne is very sick

« on: November 13, 2010, 09:48:52 PM »

The chins i am getting are male and female that have been paired for a while and have had kits before. They will be coming with their own cage. Sammy, i would like to get him a friend. I dont want a female in this cage b/c i dont know if this leg is due to an accident or if he was born like that. I emailed his prev. owner and she did not even know(or at least she says)about his leg. She says no one was really hands on with the chins. She has his cage mate still and i am trying to get him for Sammy but i will have to pay for him. Not too much she wanted $125 for both Sammy and Buck Wheat including cage and supplies. I still owe her $70 to get Buck Wheat(which i will be changing his name.lol) Having to get Sammy checked out and i have been having wisdom teeth problems, i dont have the extra cash right now. I should be able to around thanksgiving which i told her. So i will soon have 4 plus if momma is pregnant whatever she births which the lady says is usually 3 to4 kits each time. When i get Buck Wheat Sammy will go back into that cage and the cage he is in now will become the birthing cage.

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Health / Re: Daphne is very sick

« on: November 08, 2010, 05:15:34 PM »

I am sorry for not getting back to you guys sooner. I have 6 kids and they are a hand full sometimes. Sammy is great. I took him in and he was healthy. They did not look at his leg though. they said they will when i bring him back since it was an emergency kinda aptment. But i think they just said that to make sure i come back to make them more money. but they are the only ones in my area that treat exotics. His dust baths were not doing anything for his mats from his prev. owners so i decided to comb him and they came right out. He did not like it at all but i think if i comb him at least 3 times a week then he would get use to it. And he is so soft now. He has been eating more too for some reason. I am thinking maybe Daphne was stressing him out, she was really the "man" of the house. Thanks for asking about him. Now that i know he is healthy, i am planning on getting a pair this Christmas. The owner thinks the female is pregnant and do around that time. She says she usually births 3 or 4 kits.

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Health / Re: Daphne is very sick

« on: October 31, 2010, 07:40:40 AM »

I do not have a scale i only noticed i needed one when i became a member on here. What kind of oats? Like old fashioned rolled oats? 
I am going to get him some treats and a scale tomorrow. Where can i get apple branches?

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Health / Re: Daphne is very sick

« on: October 30, 2010, 04:59:37 PM »

They open at 7:30 i will be waiting at the door when that lock turns


So no fresh fruit. The lady before me gave him Banana Chips all the time. I try to give him some maybe 2 times a week but he does not really take them from me, i get she did not give him raisins because he loves those. He is a big boy so i give him 2 a day(well, i just tossed the treats so i have to go get new ones) My husband buried Daphne and my kids had a wake for her.
I guess i am still in shock. I know she is gone and i am trying to keep Sammy healthy and then i start thinking about Daphne and i realize she is not here.

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Health / Re: Daphne is very sick

« on: October 30, 2010, 03:48:22 PM »

Thank you Dianah,

I have already sanitized the cage,bath,house,bottles, and bowls. I threw away the chewies and toys. I even through away the treats that were boxed next to the cage. I dont want Sammy to have the same problem. I looked up Baytril this morning to see if it could be an OTC med or of course not. I read that i can give them vitamin c so i got him some chewables that are 500mg each and just gave him a fourth of one. It says to give him a whole tablet once a week. He did not want to eat it so i crushed it and dissolved it in warm water and i put it in a medi syringe and he took it like that. I guess i will give him one every other day.
The vet is not open until Monday but i am going to ask if i can give him the medicine even if he does not seem to have anything b/c Daphne did not seem to have anything but an eye irritation. Everything that i have looked up about the eye was that she must have gotten dust in her eye and that it should clear up.
He still seems fine, I gave him a apple piece and he loved it i did not know that i could give them fresh fruit but i of course looked it up( i should just get a book if anyone has a favorite let me know) and some breeder feeds hers apple,pear,kiwi and something else.
I waited so long to get approved on this site like almost 2 weeks and i am so happy to be on the forum. I know i can learn so much from this site and the users and gain alot more and hopefully lose a lot less.

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Health / Re: Daphne is very sick

« on: October 30, 2010, 01:33:10 PM »

As a first time chin owner, i am still looking up things about them and how different they are to the normal house pet. I find conflicting answers to my question when googling. I am making Sammy or better just going to take him in on Monday. The vet is closed and i did call them but they told me to call on Monday. Their is a emergency hospital that is in the state next to ours but it is far away. He looks good now. He is eating well and drinking well. He poops like crazy. After getting Sammy it was hard for me to see how much Daphne was eating and drinking since i did not know how much Sammy ate before i got him. I have Timothy Hay but they didnt  seem to eat it that much. Sammy is staying in our room which my husband likes the fan blowing at night. The fan blows directly at us at the top of the bed. Their cage is on the floor at the foot of our bed. We keep a fleece blanket over the front and back of the cage leaving the sides for ventilation. When i got Daphne she was on a Hamster diet. Eating corn,seeds, and what ever else is in the mix. I switched her after i found out that the corn and others are not good for her and i did not know i needed to keep a mixture of both the switch he out.
This morning i also noticed that Sammy is grinding his teeth, he has never done this.(anyways not for the 3 weeks i had him) Can he be stressed can he get depressed from Daphne dying? He was not around her when she went or even while she was sick that much so is there a way that he can smell something is wrong? like i noticed Daphne let out her bladder after dying and it was so thick and yellow just sticking to her coat.
He also has always been with a cage mate. I am not going to get another one until he is 100% better and maybe around Christmas but can he get more depressed not having another Chin around? Can he dye from being lonely?

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Health / Re: Daphne is very sick

« on: October 30, 2010, 09:25:40 AM »

Well, My baby passed this morning, the only of emergency vet was in another state. She went at 1AM. At around 12:45 i put her in one of my shirts while i go to the restroom so she could still smell me i came out and she had flipper over onto her back. She was still breathing so i picked her up and put her back onto her stomach. I left her in her cage b/c she loved her cage and did not usually liked being held and i did not want to stress her out more. I was her taking slower breathes that were further apart. And at around 1 she took her last breath i waited just watching hoping that she would take another and stay alive until i got her to the vet.  I am so lost, I only had her for a month. As i read some thing last night trying to figure out what happened i noticed somethings that she has always done while i had her. She always touched her mouth and face with her hands, constantly. I read that can be due to overgrown teeth but i made sure they have chewing toys, i didnt get any from her prev. owner she was in bad shape when i got her, not sick but her living conditions were pretty bad and she was severely matted. She also had a weird thing about her. Every time she took a bath, she would stop for a second and her head and eyes would spin after she stopped she would rub in the dust again and start spinning again. She would also do that if she was running around hyper like and then she would stop and again the head and eye spins. Is that normal? Sammy does not do anything like that. I have Sammy for almost 3 weeks now. This morning I cleaned the cage,bath,bottles,bowls, and house I threw away all the treats,toys,chewing toys. Sammy is now in the cage. I let him loose the whole time she was sick since i did not have another cage to put him in. I am so worried about him becoming sick but i know what to look for and on Monday i am going to make an apt for him to be looked at just in case. I dont know if he is getting sick, his eyes looked a little wet this morning after putting him in the cage, can he be crying? I waited years to get a Chinchilla, i loved them the moment i saw them, I was pregnant with my 8 yr old. I just cant believe she is gone

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Health / Daphne is very sick

« on: October 29, 2010, 10:41:52 PM »

I believe she has Pneumonia. It started as an eye infection. It would close shut and then i would clean it out. It got better after 2 days. After being better for 2 days, i let her have a bath since i thought it was from getting something in her eye. The day after that she started getting  a runny nose. A couple of days after that she got stuffy and started breathing from her mouth. Yesterday, she start having cracking sounds from her chest when she breathed. My vet wont be back until the morning but i dont know if she will last that long. She is now lethargic kinda tipsy she wont move. wont eat and wont drink. She lost weight and i can feel her bones in her back and hips. Her fur is dull and her skin is bright pink. Her respitory breathing is 40 a minute which i read was normal. I put my ear to her chest and hear wheezing and her heart rate sounds right. Her breathing is so shallow and gaspy. Is there any hope for her? I never seen her like this she is usually so lively and barks when i try to pet her from her cage but she just lets me pick her up. She use to try and nibble at me and scare me away. They open at 8:30 cst. Is there anything i can do to make her feel better. Is there anything i can give her to help her breath? I have another chin, he is fine, i have him out of the cage and running my room i dont want him to get sick. I also just got a kitten about 7-9wks old. My husband found him on a country road and brought him home. He was trying to play with Daphne from her cage and i also thought that maybe he hit her eye and whatever was in his nails got into her eye. I keep him away from them but sometimes he wants to play.

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Breeding 101 / Re: breeding My Chins?

« on: October 27, 2010, 09:05:21 AM »

I was thinking that my male is very old. That might be why he has an eye problem i heard that sometimes you can determine age by there teeth, he has golden stained teeth. I am also thinking( i have read) that my female might be too little too, she is much smaller than my male. I am going to be getting an already paired couple by Christmas. They havent had kits yet. I am sure i most likely wont breed the ones i have now. I did alot of reading last night. Thanks for the advise, i would not want problems for my chins kits.

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New Births / Re: What color are they?

« on: October 26, 2010, 03:18:09 PM »

They are so cute. How are they doing now?

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Breeding 101 / breeding My Chins?

« on: October 26, 2010, 02:59:54 PM »

Hello, I have 2 Chinchillas. 1 female that i know is 4 that has never been bred, i have had her for a month and i dont know if she has been in heat since i have had her. And i have a male that the prev. owner said was 1 but i think he is way older. I wanted to know since my female is 4 and has not had a littler before, if it is too late to start her. She is a Standard and the Male is a Hetero Beige( they did not tell me he is, i am gathering that he is from researching)(pics of them are in my albums) I out him in her cage right when i got him and they hit it off pretty well, She did nibble at him at first but they are buddies now. Even though they are friends and have been together only 2 weeks, does she still have to feel comfortable around him to want to mate with him?

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Q & A / My new Chin, Sammy

« on: October 26, 2010, 05:39:26 AM »

Hello,
I just bought a Chin from CL. I lurk for them pretty much.lol. He is a Hetero Beige i am thinking. I have a couple of questions. When we got home, I noticed that his left eye looked clouded in the pupal only sometimes his right is too but his left stays that way.  He has very dark red eyes you kinda have to look twice to see the color. I was wondering if since he has red eyes that the pupal's are suppose to look like that. I have a picture of his eye. I have one of his right that has red eye and i have one of his left that shows the cloud looking part on his eye. Also, they told me he is 1. But i think he is pretty old. I read that you cant really tell but is there a hint to age like behavior facial marks?

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Guestbook / Hello!

« on: October 25, 2010, 08:43:19 PM »

Hello, my name is Corrie Anne
I am 27 and have 6 children. 5 girls 1 boy. I also have 2 chinchillas. I rescued one from an owner that was not taking care of her and i told her i would take her and give her a better home. Her children stopped caring for her and the mother did not want to either. I did not know how bad off she really was until i took her out of her cage when we got home. She was severely matted. I took her to the vet and they had to shave her fur, her skin was breaking from them fur pulling away. Thank goodness it is growing back now and she is very happy. I got her about a month ago. I just got Sammy about 2 weeks ago. He is a Hetero Beige i believe and they said he was 1. I think he is much older, maybe even an old timer. He seems to be blind in one eye. When i bought him from someone on CL i went to pick him up. The lady held him the whole time i was there but i had Daphne in my arms. When i got back home, i noticed that his left eye was clouded over and that he favored his right eye. I also noticed that his right back paw is completely up side down. Almost like a clubfoot. I dont know if it was from an accident or if he was born like that, never the less, she did not say anything about his leg either. I thought about it and decided to keep him. He is very well behaved and sweet. I dont think he would have done better anywhere else. I am taking him to the vet after my vet comes home from Vacation. I am suppose to be getting Sammy's cage mate and the cage but i dont know if i want to deal with that lady again.  Sorry such a long hello but that is just me. Enjoy.