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No she normally has pellets, I meant that I have given her a few raisins because they are easy for her to chew. I thought it was better than not giving her anything, she won't eat the pellets at the minute because they are too hard. I've crushed some pellets up and I'm going to try her with them...

Hi, a couple of months ago I noticed that my chinchilla had a wet chin, I took her to the vet and a couple of her back teeth had overgrown so the vet filed them down and her chin dried up and she went back to normal. I checked on her this morning and her chin is soaking wet again, she's drinking...

He picked up a little bit and although he couldn't eat his hard food he was eating chicken soup. His eye has started to protrude on the right side and it looks like it is literally about to pop out, my vet can't see him until Monday. Has anybody ever heard of their eyes doing this? It's not...

About a week and a half ago i noticed my hedgehog had bad swelling around his mouth and a lump under his chin that had literally just appeared out of nowhere, and it looked like there was something stuck inside his mouth and he couldn't close it. I checked to see if there was any food stuck in...

i'm going to get some critical care from the vets tomorrow if they have it, i just tried the pellets/water thing and she took a little bit of that from the syringe :) thanks for all your help!

I'm going to try and get something into her with a syringe today, hopefully that might work. I read on another forum, that you can put yogurt in the syringe, is that right? i don't want to be making things worse. is there anything else i could do for her until i can get her to the vet tomorrow?

she is but very little. I am trying to hand feed her and she is nibbling food but still not really eating it. My vet wasn't working today but they can see her tomorrow.

ok so she had quite a big drink last night, i've just given her a sandbath and she peed in it, i offered her some hay this morning and she sniffed at it and nibbled a tiny bit. She's a bit more active too. when she was running around outside of her cage last week, a picture fell from the wall...

No change in temperature and she isn't peeing/pooping much because she's hardly eating or drinking anything :\ she was taking the raisins from me so at least i knew she was eating at least something but i know they're bad for them, do you know what else i could offer her seen as she won't touch...

Hi, I have a 2 year old female chinchilla and over the past couple of days she has become extremely quiet, she is drinking very little and not touching her food at all (she will take raisins from me and eat them though), she's also sleeping a **** of a lot and won't really come out of her nest...

ok so he was treated for mites and the redness on his side has cleared up and he is a lot more lively but the dry skin is still as bad as ever, he is losing 6-7 quills a night. I've tried everything from flaxseed oil to oatmeal baths and nothing is working. Any ideas on how i can help him? thanks x

I mentioned Revolution to the vet and she said it's only used in America and not in the UK so xenex is the only thing she could treat him with, i'll keep you posted though. Thanks again

I took him to the vet this morning and they said it looks like mites/parasites so they treated him with xenex which apparently puts a barrier over the skin and kills any parasite infection, he has to be treated again in 2 weeks and they say I should start to see a difference in about a week so...

I've just had a really good look at him and his skin on one side is red underneath the fur and it looks as if the fur is getting ready to start dropping out .He has quite a bit of dandruff coming off of him too, he doesn't bother with his wheel anymore either, he'll have a little bit to eat and...

Hi i have a two year old male hedgehog, over the past couple of weeks his skin has started to look really dry and he's been losing quills.I thought it might have just been a dry skin problem and somebody recommended that i bathe him with a little bit of olive oil, which i did but it hasn't...

we've kept the bathroom door closed ever since, so there's no way they left the room that way.There's still no sign of them 2 hours on :\ thanks for your help

I have two chinchillas, i've had them for about 3 weeks now. I took them into the bathroom tonight to let them have a run around and they found a small hole somewhere and they've disappeared.It was my own stupid fault, I'm absolutely gutted and i have no idea what to do.. :'( i tried coaxing...

Hi i have 2 female chinchillas around 4 months old, i bought them about 3 weeks ago from the same pet shop where they were housed together.I got them home and they're in the same cage and they seemed to settle in fine but this morning when i checked on them, one of them has a hole in her ear and...