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Health / Re: Pregnant Chin Found Blood! (Maybe Urethral Infections?) Pics

« on: April 08, 2012, 04:15:50 PM »

Bi has passed away this morning.

I took her to a vet yesterday confirmed that she was in fact severely infected. The baby was likely to be dead inside and rotting, which was causing severe infection. The only way was to perform surgery but the chances of survival for rodens are always skeptical. In additional to Bi's weak health conditon, I left the vet's office with some pain-reliefs for Bi.

As a result, I urge every chinchilla owner and soon-to-be owner, please make and keep your commitment to your chinchillas. If you can't spend time or take care of your chinchilla appropriately, PLEASE DON'T BE AN OWNER. I am not a responsible owner for my soon to be 5 years old chinchilla and ultimately caused her death.

Imagine this was the same every morning. It was the same way you open the cage and reach you hand to her coat, but soon you realized the temperature became icying cold as her body lying there rock still. Now you know you have lost her.

Please take care and be responsible for your chinchilla for her or his entire life.

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Health / Re: Pregnant Chin Found Blood! (Maybe Urethral Infections?) Pics

« on: April 04, 2012, 08:58:19 PM »

That is very detail observation my friend. Thanks for your input.

I had the same thought when I first retreived Bi three days ago. However, the nipples growth is just at its beginning, which is only a small bump now (not fur long). It is a good indication that she did not had a labor or going into labor soon. As for the black color at its anus in the picture, it is actually her poo poo 

I look forward for more advices.

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Health / Re: Pregnant Chin Found Blood! (Maybe Urethral Infections?) Pics

« on: April 04, 2012, 07:21:16 PM »

Please feel free to give me your inputs here. I love to hear what you think.

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Health / Pregnant Chin Found Blood! (Maybe Urethral Infections?) Pics

« on: April 04, 2012, 04:40:40 PM »

Hi all,

My female chinchilla, Bi, is 4 years old. I raised her since she was 3 months old. Due to my recent travel, Bi stayed in a not-so-ideal environment for the past six months, lived with another two 2-years-old male chinchilla. After my retrieval of Bi, I found a few changes in character: not energetic and lacking curiousity, and also the following problems:

1. Developed fungus at her bottom as seen in the picture.
2. Suspicion of pregnancy due to the growth of nipples and round tummy.
3a. Suspicion of urethral infection (found brown-ish deris this morning).
3b. Unusual large size urethral cone (does this seems too big?).

I'm so worried after retrieval of my chinchilla. I feel so sorry for leaving her for 6 months. My main concerns are question 3a and 3b. Before taking her to a vet, I like to get more comments for the urethral signs.

Thank you!