Meet Pepper. She is a ~5-6yr old (we don't know her exact age) rescue Chinchilla. She was dropped off at the specialty vet we use for our 2 other male chinchillas. They couldn't find a home for her, so we took her in. Our boys are ~16 years old though, and we don't want another long term pet, so...
And not every day is a struggle. This morning was much easier. I still had to hold him, but he reached out and ate from the syringe on his own for most of it. Compared to yesterday morning where we had to fully burrito him and fight with him to eat.
It started several weeks ago. We've been syringe feeding him for awhile now, but he fights it and is slowly losing weight.
He's been sedated twice in the past ~2 weeks for teeth filing. The first time his teeth were a mess and the Dr fixed a lot, and took xrays. He still didn't start eating on...