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I think that younger chins are more adept to running on a more unconventional wheel like the flying saucer. I did tons of research online and found that the flying saucer was very good chin wheel which I bought. Jazmine was already about 2 years old then. She wouldn't touch it or even go on it...

I don't know if this is relevant but when my chin had one eye closed, I took her to the vet and they found that she had scratched her eye. They gave antibiotics and pain medication. They had put a chemical in her eye and viewed under a blacklight I think they could check if there was any injury...

oh 80ml in a day ok. She's been eating hay, but she barely touches her pellets even though I've dusted them with chinchilla lifeline which she always gobbles up. In her pellets bowl is just enough to cover the bottom of it and since Wed is still the same amount so I think I will continue to...

Thanks for all the advice. Yes i actually used fleece to seperate her cage into a smaller area and then another fleece for the top because she liked to climb the sides of the cage esp since its 1/2in by 1in so it was easy for her to do so. I don't have an all wire carrier so I didn't want to put...

Thanks yea. I have critical care but it already expired. I tried blending the hay and pellets but the hay wont get small enough and it doesn't go in the syringe. I really think I need some critical care because she's barely pooping now and it's very tiny and I'm assuming it's because she's...

Yay no broken bones just a really bad sprain. They did a regular check up and she felt all along both her legs (using the normal one to compare) and said that there wasn't any fractures. I had extra money and she said that it was possible she had hairline fracture so I decided to get an xray...

Well she actually jumped out of her cage and ran around my room. She's trying to be as active as she was before her injury and I'm glad she is I just don't want her to injure herself more. While she was out of the cage she would actually stand up on both her hind legs. She definitely still has...

Aww I can imagine especially giving all the medications. I was wondering if it's possibly a good sign that she is able to scratch her face with the foot she was limping on. I saw her do that about twice. Or is it possible that it most likely means she didn't break something in her leg but...

Well I hope that Nixi has recovered well. Yes she's never really vocal unless she hurts herself but I never heard her scream or anything. Her leg doesn't just dangle she can move it very very slightly but it is hard to tell that she moves it at all. I can tell she's in pain because she is...

In Springfield, her vet is the one by fair oaks mall.

so this morning she was feeling a little better. I actually put up a short piece of fleece about 2 ft high to section of the cage to make it a little smaller so she would be less mobile. I woke up a few times to find she jumped over it to the other side and even jumped on top of her wheel. So I...

Yes she is still limping but now she won't even put down her leg like she did earlier. The floor is fleece so I just moved the wheel all the way down so now it is immobile. She still likes resting in it im not sure if the curve of it allows her to put less pressure on it but she keeps going back...

She only ran on it for about 5 seconds. Right now she hasn't moved from the wheel and is resting on it. I'm pretty sure she's still limping because she's still in the same spot when I checked earlier.

I have a chin spin that's 15 in. Should I take out the wheel she seems to like sleeping on it now since she used to sleep on the uppermost shelves?

I just found my chinchilla limping today. Does that mean her leg is either broken or sprained, hopefully the latter? She is extremely active always wanting to play out of the cage and only let's you hold her for about 30 seconds before she's jumping around my room. When I come near now she just...