SCchin
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The ongoing saga of Quito.
He is now 616 g. He was leveled out at 650 g but was 683 g last October when he got the major teeth filing. He was so happy the day we took him to get the abscess cut out at the end of December. Full coat, happy with the car ride, big blob under his eye...
We has nats all over his chest. We changed from the Care Fresh bedding to aspen, but my daughter is complaining that the nats may be from him laying in his pee, and that the aspen doesn't absorb as well as the Care Fresh does. I am wondering if it is drool, but not sure how to tell the difference... The Care Fresh allowed longer periods between cage changes, and she is a teen, and probably doesn't change his cage as much as she needs to.
He is also chewing his fur a lot. It has been warmer, and he used to chew, maybe since his teeth are better he is just going to have a strange haircut? Or is chewing a sign of something not being right?
So, the plan is a complete cage clean today. Rinse/trim/pull the nats. Keep the wet chips changed out. Watch him. I really don't want to do CC because he gets so many nats from that, and then he quits eating. He is eating fine, tons of poos in the cage. I am also going to start watching water intake. Can sloppy water drinking be a cause of the nats? Just thinking out loud.
Could the nats be the complete cause of this? He paws his face a lot, are they pulling? His teeth checked out fine a few weeks ago, but no xrays were taken. I may be able to get the latest xrays from the vet to show here.
How do you spell nat anyway?? Is it the same as the bug? :hmm:
He is now 616 g. He was leveled out at 650 g but was 683 g last October when he got the major teeth filing. He was so happy the day we took him to get the abscess cut out at the end of December. Full coat, happy with the car ride, big blob under his eye...
We has nats all over his chest. We changed from the Care Fresh bedding to aspen, but my daughter is complaining that the nats may be from him laying in his pee, and that the aspen doesn't absorb as well as the Care Fresh does. I am wondering if it is drool, but not sure how to tell the difference... The Care Fresh allowed longer periods between cage changes, and she is a teen, and probably doesn't change his cage as much as she needs to.
He is also chewing his fur a lot. It has been warmer, and he used to chew, maybe since his teeth are better he is just going to have a strange haircut? Or is chewing a sign of something not being right?
So, the plan is a complete cage clean today. Rinse/trim/pull the nats. Keep the wet chips changed out. Watch him. I really don't want to do CC because he gets so many nats from that, and then he quits eating. He is eating fine, tons of poos in the cage. I am also going to start watching water intake. Can sloppy water drinking be a cause of the nats? Just thinking out loud.
Could the nats be the complete cause of this? He paws his face a lot, are they pulling? His teeth checked out fine a few weeks ago, but no xrays were taken. I may be able to get the latest xrays from the vet to show here.
How do you spell nat anyway?? Is it the same as the bug? :hmm:
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