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Health / Re: Drug resistance to anesthesia due to frequent detal work
« on: February 20, 2017, 07:39:47 AM »
Thank Gray for the good advice. I will check on those.
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Health / Re: Drug resistance to anesthesia due to frequent detal work
« on: February 18, 2017, 11:07:59 PM »
Thanks Gray for reply. My girl is still quite healthy the root are not overgrown. I really do not want to give up. I saw some posts saying with dental work chin with malocclusion problem can also live a long life...let me check and see if there is solution. Thanks.
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Health / Drug resistance to anesthesia due to frequent detal work
« on: February 17, 2017, 11:35:20 PM »
My poor chin girl got the genetic malocclusion she has to go for dental work for every 9 - 14 weeks. She has done 11 times since 2014. Now she has drug resistance and my vet has to use stronger narcotic ketamine. I really worry what would happen if she continues increasing drug resistance.
I would like to know if there is any silmilar case like mine and if there is solution? Thanks so much!
Susan
I would like to know if there is any silmilar case like mine and if there is solution? Thanks so much!
Susan
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Health / Re: My Chin girl was diagnosed with diabetic
« on: February 17, 2017, 11:16:39 PM »That's a pretty big difference, 15% underweight. I have a feeling when your pet gets enough food these issues will resolve themselves.
Hi Gray, You are very right. Let me update this post. I came back home and stay to take care of my chin for about half a year. I stop oxbow critial care (there are fruit powder and molasses）, changed her diet to Supreme brand and started giving her veggie (20% of her diet according to my Vet). Her blood sugar drop significantly from 12+ to 9.6 and she starts gaining weight now up-to 545g. Since she never shows the diabetic sigh: eating a lot, drinking a lot and loss weigh, my vet said probably it is not dabetic now.
But now I have another headache thing. I would like to open a new thread...
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Health / Re: My Chin girl was diagnosed with diabetic
« on: April 15, 2016, 08:12:52 AM »
Thanks GrayRodent and BLS chins for advice. The diet was one half year ago when she was with me. She is still in the foster care and sure no treats any more. Okay I told them to give alfalfa and try to feed more Oxbow critical care and I am buying chin used calcium tablet. I am not sure if there is better way to increase phosphorus without over calcium.
Yes urine test was done. She does not have the diabetic behavior yet, she doesn't drink much water (only 10 -15ml daily), she doesn't eat enough food and she is a bit under weight, 480-492 vs normal 575 which was the reason why I requested a throughout test.
Yes urine test was done. She does not have the diabetic behavior yet, she doesn't drink much water (only 10 -15ml daily), she doesn't eat enough food and she is a bit under weight, 480-492 vs normal 575 which was the reason why I requested a throughout test.
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Health / Re: My Chin girl was diagnosed with diabetic
« on: April 13, 2016, 03:03:43 AM »
Food supply: Mazuri and APD hay and Alfafa straw sometimes. But she only eats pellets. Her malocclusion is genetic.
Oxbow critical care: about 2 g daily
A little dried apple 2-3 times a week, 0.5cm*0.5 cm each.
VC 1 every other day.
Her poops are okay. Due to lack of hay and drinking little water I feed her Oxbow critical care and occasionally lactobacillin tablet.
She was cage free and looked healthy and happy when she was with me, then half year ago I had to put her to foster care. Since then she went downhill. My vet couldn’t tell why it happened and had no advice on food adjustment. Anyway, I am more focusing on what to do than seeking reason why as this fact can not be changed now…. Thanks.
Oxbow critical care: about 2 g daily
A little dried apple 2-3 times a week, 0.5cm*0.5 cm each.
VC 1 every other day.
Her poops are okay. Due to lack of hay and drinking little water I feed her Oxbow critical care and occasionally lactobacillin tablet.
She was cage free and looked healthy and happy when she was with me, then half year ago I had to put her to foster care. Since then she went downhill. My vet couldn’t tell why it happened and had no advice on food adjustment. Anyway, I am more focusing on what to do than seeking reason why as this fact can not be changed now…. Thanks.
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Health / My Chin girl was diagnosed with diabetic
« on: April 12, 2016, 10:15:59 AM »
Hello there,
I have a 3 year old chinchilla girl and was diagnosed with diabetic and phosphorus too low.
Here are the test results:
normalrange
GLU 12.19 mmol/L 3.3-6.1
UREA 11.1 mmol/L 6.06-16.06
CREA 59 umol/L 35.4-114.9
PHOS 0.54 mmol/L 1.29-2.58
CA 2.83 mmol/L 1.4-3.02
TP 44 g/L 38-56
ALB 26 g/L 23-41
GLOB 18 g/L 19-22
ALT 21 g/L 10-35
ALKP 51 g/L 6072
TBIL 2 umol/L 5.13-15.4
CHOL 1.78 umol/L 1.3-7.85
AMYL 880 U/L -
She also has malocclusion problem who need dental work every 10 weeks. My vet is suggesting a difficult treatment scheme that I need to do blood sugar with her blood daily and inject with insulin. I couldn't imagine how can this be done (getting blood from my chin daily? injection? sounds so terrible).
I guess diabetic is rare to Chinchilla I have no idea how it could happen to my girl. I wish I can get some advice here. My question is:
1. Would there be an easier way to do the test
2. Is there better way or alternative way to control the blood sugar, like medicine, diet?
3. What should I do to for the phosphorus problem? What should she eat?
Thanks a lot!
Susan
I have a 3 year old chinchilla girl and was diagnosed with diabetic and phosphorus too low.
Here are the test results:
normalrange
GLU 12.19 mmol/L 3.3-6.1
UREA 11.1 mmol/L 6.06-16.06
CREA 59 umol/L 35.4-114.9
PHOS 0.54 mmol/L 1.29-2.58
CA 2.83 mmol/L 1.4-3.02
TP 44 g/L 38-56
ALB 26 g/L 23-41
GLOB 18 g/L 19-22
ALT 21 g/L 10-35
ALKP 51 g/L 6072
TBIL 2 umol/L 5.13-15.4
CHOL 1.78 umol/L 1.3-7.85
AMYL 880 U/L -
She also has malocclusion problem who need dental work every 10 weeks. My vet is suggesting a difficult treatment scheme that I need to do blood sugar with her blood daily and inject with insulin. I couldn't imagine how can this be done (getting blood from my chin daily? injection? sounds so terrible).
I guess diabetic is rare to Chinchilla I have no idea how it could happen to my girl. I wish I can get some advice here. My question is:
1. Would there be an easier way to do the test
2. Is there better way or alternative way to control the blood sugar, like medicine, diet?
3. What should I do to for the phosphorus problem? What should she eat?
Thanks a lot!
Susan
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Q & A / Re: How much hay should my chin be eating?
« on: August 29, 2014, 05:26:28 AM »
Thanks Gray for your very knowledgeable comment. You are right I shall find another Vet and see what they say. As this is another topic I may want to create a separate post later. The sad thing is the medical condition for Chinchilla is not very good here. Let's see what I can do. Thanks again for help Gray.
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Q & A / Re: How much hay should my chin be eating?
« on: August 28, 2014, 09:18:18 AM »
Wow, really? 15g of grass to me it is not handful but I need to hold it with both hands. Perhaps you have a bigger hand than mine:), or maybe the grass you have is heavier than one I have? My scale is also correct. So that means my chin is really not eating enough hay. Yes I took her to Vet last month and had her teeth check and also did X-ray. Her teeth look very good but from X-ray there is some space (air-gap？) at the root. The Vet didn't explain why it is like that but said a perfect healthy Chin usually there is no space. They told me no need to do anything yet but to go for another check 6 months or 1 year later. Before my Chin came to me, she was with someone else for 6 months. They fed her with bad quality of pellet without any hay. Maybe that made her grew with with bad habit.
Thanks Gray very much for your advice so that I know I need to do something to change her habit.
Thanks Gray very much for your advice so that I know I need to do something to change her habit.
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Q & A / Re: How much hay should my chin be eating?
« on: August 28, 2014, 06:23:53 AM »
Yes she eats most at night. Temperature is not a problem. I have air con running 24 hours a day (I need 2 blankets to sleep at night) but just she has less room to run staying in a smaller room with air con other than bigger rooms in winter time.
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Q & A / Re: How much hay should my chin be eating?
« on: August 27, 2014, 11:08:42 PM »
Thanks a lot Gray, Jasonred and Kageri for your comments.
I am from China. My Chin is about 500g. I always give my chin pellet and hay of best quality I can find. They are all imported mostly from the US. For pellet, 60% is Oxbow 40% is Mazuri (I did not give all Mazuri because my chin loves Mazuri so much I want to keep her interest by not giving all to her hehe). For hay, I have APD 1st cut, APD 2nd cut, SPS, SPS 3rd cut, oak and wheat grass etc. They all look nice, fresh and smell nice and they are not kept for long time (at least from my side).
My chin used to eat a little bit of hay every day (small handful). Perhaps it is summer, her appetite is not as good as before. For hay I provide constantly and refill every 12 hours. But she now would only touch every other day and eat 1-2g each time. That's why I am worried. When I show her different kind of hay and put in front of her mouth, she makes exagerate emotion she turns her butt to me and run very fast right away to show me how much she hates it. LOL.
If I give her less pellet she would staff herself until the next day the pellet comes. Last night I start trying giving her hay only, she is not happy obviously but she eats about 4-5g. Her health looks okay so far, she is grumpy. She loves chewing, not always to chew toys but my furniture too - sigh. Well, it is better than no chewing though.
I am not sure of the best way to deal with her eating 1-2 g every 2 days. If some says his chin also eat this little and still live a long life (up to average 15-20 years). Then I would be very happy to hear that. Thanks again.
I am from China. My Chin is about 500g. I always give my chin pellet and hay of best quality I can find. They are all imported mostly from the US. For pellet, 60% is Oxbow 40% is Mazuri (I did not give all Mazuri because my chin loves Mazuri so much I want to keep her interest by not giving all to her hehe). For hay, I have APD 1st cut, APD 2nd cut, SPS, SPS 3rd cut, oak and wheat grass etc. They all look nice, fresh and smell nice and they are not kept for long time (at least from my side).
My chin used to eat a little bit of hay every day (small handful). Perhaps it is summer, her appetite is not as good as before. For hay I provide constantly and refill every 12 hours. But she now would only touch every other day and eat 1-2g each time. That's why I am worried. When I show her different kind of hay and put in front of her mouth, she makes exagerate emotion she turns her butt to me and run very fast right away to show me how much she hates it. LOL.
If I give her less pellet she would staff herself until the next day the pellet comes. Last night I start trying giving her hay only, she is not happy obviously but she eats about 4-5g. Her health looks okay so far, she is grumpy. She loves chewing, not always to chew toys but my furniture too - sigh. Well, it is better than no chewing though.
I am not sure of the best way to deal with her eating 1-2 g every 2 days. If some says his chin also eat this little and still live a long life (up to average 15-20 years). Then I would be very happy to hear that. Thanks again.
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Q & A / Re: How much hay should my chin be eating?
« on: August 27, 2014, 12:29:24 AM »
Hi there,
How much hay should a chin be eating - I have been struggling on this for a long time and spent a lot of time to search the information but haven't got a standard answer. Here are what I have found:
- from the Oxbow Chinchilla pellet bag, it says, 20g pellets per day and 75% of Chinchilla's diet should be grass hay. That means really a great amount of hay.
- When searching English web site, I rarely see people give specific common on how much exactly hay a Chin needs or minimum they needs. Most of the people seems just let them eat as much as they like. A small handful of hay could only be 1-2g, that's the amount of hay my chin would eat if I let her be.
- When searching Chinese web site, I see many people say: a Chin shall eat at least 10g of hay daily. In order to make them eat, the deal is one day pellet only, one day hay only. But I am not sure if this is right way to do.
I guess no matter we make our chin eat more or less, we may not be able to see the difference in short time. But I guess it could affect their life span or see the difference after long time. I really hope there is authoritative or standard saying about how much or minimum hay should a chin eat. Is there anyone here have raised their Chin up to 15 + year old? Could you share your experience with me?
Thanks so much!
How much hay should a chin be eating - I have been struggling on this for a long time and spent a lot of time to search the information but haven't got a standard answer. Here are what I have found:
- from the Oxbow Chinchilla pellet bag, it says, 20g pellets per day and 75% of Chinchilla's diet should be grass hay. That means really a great amount of hay.
- When searching English web site, I rarely see people give specific common on how much exactly hay a Chin needs or minimum they needs. Most of the people seems just let them eat as much as they like. A small handful of hay could only be 1-2g, that's the amount of hay my chin would eat if I let her be.
- When searching Chinese web site, I see many people say: a Chin shall eat at least 10g of hay daily. In order to make them eat, the deal is one day pellet only, one day hay only. But I am not sure if this is right way to do.
I guess no matter we make our chin eat more or less, we may not be able to see the difference in short time. But I guess it could affect their life span or see the difference after long time. I really hope there is authoritative or standard saying about how much or minimum hay should a chin eat. Is there anyone here have raised their Chin up to 15 + year old? Could you share your experience with me?
Thanks so much!
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