Recent content by Phil

Are you using pine woodshavings in the cage? This is the most common cause of liver issues in all cage animals unless a lot of ventilation is available.

One of my boys suffers from hypoglycemia. Before he was diagnosed we had a few weeks of quite distressing episodes of watching him twitch on the floor helpless, sometime picking him up to try to stop him harming himself. The vet suggested giving him a small ammount of carb and time to digest it...

In my experience the material doesn't matter ref chewing as the chins can't get their teeth into it anyway. This said I use glass bottles with stainless stell fittings as I suspect that anything plastic will negatively affect the water taste and harbour microflora that cannot be easily removed...

I have to agree with the previous responses, that this seems like a tooth problem. Unfortunately an xray often does not show up the problem and a (very expensive) MRI may be needed to properly identify that a tooth has gone rogue and is impacting the tear duct / growing out through the bottom of...

Update: I've found that by roasting his favourite monkey nuts I can then mush them down into a paste into which I can add the metacam then shape them into medicated peanut treats which go down really well. I also took the suggestion of the vet and added a drop Ribena (the original full sugar...

Update, I took some of the monkey nuts that Chena loves as a treat, then roasted them in tinfoil over the fire for an hour. After the roasted nuts had cooled I used mashed them down with the metacam to make nut-metacam sausages which Chena would eat from my hand (so I knew they'd gone down). As...

Thanks Tunes, Dound advice, I'll transfer him to the carrier cage in the morning. He's eating ok, I'm not sure about drinking as he shares a water bottle with his brother and it seems to be going down ok. I'll know better when he's in isolation. I did phone around the vets in the area, but...

I just noticed last night that one of my daughters chins was not using one of his back legs. O took him to the only very i could get an appointment with (I've just moved house) but no 'exotic pet' specialist was available. The vet was lovely and sympathetic, but admitted that other than not...