Recent content by Chinch&Chilla

Thanks for the concern/replies. Tonight he's actually looking back to normal and he's been acting/eating normally. When I look at his eye all I can see that might be different at this point is just a small speck of a lighter color in his eye just above his bottom eyelid. It's so small I question...

Thanks for the replies. The cage uses fleece liners so I changed them and wiped down the other tile surfaces and the metal inside of his wheel. I'm not giving a dust bath until I know its healed. The eye isn't stuck shut. I tried my best to flush it out with saline (he didn't like it much) and...

Thanks for the advice. I don't leave the dust bath in the cage so that shouldn't be the problem. I'm going to try to get him into the vet tomorrow, Tuesday at the latest. In the mean time I will try the saline and I'm going to start cleaning the cage every day till its healed to try to keep the...

Hi, I came home from work today to find that my chins eye is swollen and he can only partially open it. I can tell it must be bothering him because hes trying to sleep and every 5-10 min he'll wake up and use his hands like hes trying to clean his face. I know I have to get him to a vet I'm just...

I am so shocked at the difference... dipping the syringe in the apple juice worked great! It took 30 sec to give him the dose of meloxicam (and he actually looked like he was enjoying it!) and then I waited about a half hour to give him a break since it's a lot of fluid between the two of them...

Thanks Sycamore. I only gave him the Sulfatrim this morning so far. I'm giving him the Meloxicam for the first time tonight along with another dose of Sulfatrim(wish me luck), but he has been eating and acting well this whole time so as long as the doses are right I am very hopeful that he'll be...

Btw is it only possible to calculate the Meloxicam? Any way to verify the dosage of the Sulfatrim?

Oh I was able to find the papers the bill they gave me and oddly enough his weight is written on it, 585 grams.

Thanks Stackie for looking this info up but I'm a little confused. Are you saying that I should be giving him .6 cc of Meloxicam as recommended by the vet or .06 cc? I don't know exactly how much he weighs, I don't have a gram scale, but he looks average size for an adult chin (4 yrs old)...

Wow Kelly Lyn that is a little shocking that your guy is taking 1/15 of my recommended dosage though I think Stackie could be right but still I worry if I'm giving him too much. The nurse at the office even looked at the directions on the bottle in front of me and showed me where to fill the...

Thanks for the recommendations. I am definitely willing to try anything to make this experience better for him and me. I can pick up the baby food and apple juice in a bit but I have never heard of simethicone, where can I find that and just out of curiosity what would draw the chin to it? I...

Hi everyone, so I took my chin to the vet yesterday and he prescribed an antibiotic (sulfatrim) and an anti-inflamatory/pain reliever (meloxicam) for his injured paw. The vet administered the 2 of them via needle yesterday so today was the first time I need to give them to him orally using the...

Thanks ArmyWife, I'll be sure to do that.

Thanks for the replies. I'm going to clean it with hydrogen peroxide, keep everything around him as clean as possible, and keep an eye on him. Northstar was the emergency animal hospital i was referring to actually but I was told that the exotics specialist is fully booked tomorrow and won't...

Called a whole list of vets in NJ today, none of them had any exotic specialists that were in today and if they were in tomorrow they were booked solid. I was told by one place that they were an emergency animal hospital and could have a regular vet look at him and then refer any questions he...