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We lost Pepper in 2019, after losing Chilli in 2012. Almost a year to the day we lost Pepper, we picked up 3 boys in need of a new home. We have had them 1.5 years now. The twins Chip and Dale are standards and just over 2. Gordon will be 3 in August and he is a mosaic. I will get pictures in a...

He seems to be eating fine again, he has even been digging into his hay. I wonder if he just took an odd tumble in his cage and hurt his jaw or something and needed a few days to rest it. He has been back to begging for shreddies and pets. Thanks for checking in, I am having an MS flare so I...

Update: Pepper ate 2 tablespoons of pellets last night and the night before. I still don't know why he stopped eating for a couple days, but he is back to his old self. Guess he heard about the trip to the vet. Whatever the reason, I am glad he is better. We were going to go ahead and do what...

Littlelaughie, I am sorry. It's so hard. I went through this several years ago with my Chilli. We went through the filings and the hand feeding and the meds. He lived his last year on metacam, 2x a day. He always ate his CC, always took his meds, grabbed the syringe out of my hand, actually...

I should add important info. He is 10, came from Petsmart, he eats oxbow essentials. He usually eats 2-3 tbsp pellets/ day, little hay. I am thinking some sort of dental trauma, either abscess, broken tooth or malo. Until 2 nights ago, he was cleaning his bowl. He is running on his wheel...

My sweet Pepper stopped eating his pellets 2 nights ago. He is taking CC, and oats and a shredded wheat. Our vet isn't in until Tuesday, so I can keep up the feeding until then, but then what? Our car needs work, the motorcycle that is hubby's transportation just died and needs a part, the van...

I am sorry. I went through this with my Chilli. When he didn't bounce back after a filing, I kept feeding him CC and figured as long as he was taking his meds and gobbling up the CC, he was okay. I had talked with the vet and she suggested maybe she missed some spurs that had appeared after the...

Thank you. I wouldn't let my guy out, nor do I have the inclination to build something so elaborate. But it is a question I get asked a lot, why can't you put him out on the concrete? Why does he have to have playtime in the bathroom? etc...

Ok, so what about the natural environment? Obviously chins lived in the wild. Have we bred the ability to survive out of them? Not trying to start something, just wondering. Many cats know how to hunt and will catch food to survive, as will dogs scavenge to find enough to eat. If you built an...

We moved from California to Oregon in August. We put pepper in a carrier that is plastic bottom and wire top. We took two days to drive and he was fine. We told the hotel about the dogs but not the cat or chin. He was fine, but was happy to see his cage. He even had to listen to the cat holler...

Any updates?

Tell us about his cage and room he is in.

sorry for the confusion, did not mean for that to happen, my brain was exhausted. He was happy, but he was in pain and his last xray had shown root elongation, so I knew that it was only a matter of time before I would have to make that choice. His last filings were a month apart and the last...

hmm, well, here's the thing, he is obviously uncomfortable without it. It becomes a quality of life thing. Yes, there is the possibility for liver/ kidney damage. I lost my cat one year ago today to kidney cancer. I asked my vet for a script of metacam for him even though it is not safe for use...

I had him pts after he fqiled to bounce back from a filing. Each time he had done well, was eating right away. The last time he was not eating after two weeks of hand feeding and refused even oats. The vet suggested a follow filing but after three years, I felt he deserved to be in chinnie...