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Thanks Cuddlebug for your reply. :) Just to update, I took her to another vet that is experienced in seeing chins and it turned out to be a kind of fungus after all. Apparently she had been fur chewing her bum and the skin was starting to flake a little by the time i got her to a vet. She was...

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Hi everyone, It's been a while since i posted here. I need some advice. Recently, i noticed one of my chins has been steadily losing fur at the base of her tail and both sides of her thigh. She just came back from a boarding session 2 weeks ago because i was painting my house. Initially i...

Thanks Dawn and Tanya! Dawn - no it doesn't stink, i did have a sniff at both puddles and they smell the same, not overtly pungent, although the milky one does smell a tad stronger. But if i don't put my nose to it, i probably won't smell anything. Tanya - i cleaned up the pee in the...

Hello everyone, i haven't posted here for a while but yesterday i noticed one of my chins Becky peed a milky white pee. She takes her dust bath in a container while i clean out her cage everyday. I noticed the spot when i returned her to her cage. The odd thing was that she peed twice (not...

Thank you everyone for your kind words.

I lost my special needs chin Kelly this morning. Every since 10 months old, she has had issues. She would have turned 4 this August but it was not meant to be. I am grateful for the one and the half years when she seemed to shake off her health problems that plagued her for more than a year and...

One of my chins Kelly, used to be in and out of bloat/stasis constantly. She has had bloat on numerous occasions, severe stasis on two occasions, confirmed intestinal damage due to a prolapse (which happened twice). Everytime she recovered (which took months), the issues would be back in less...

No, adding water to her syringe food won't make her diarrhea. She will need all the hydration she can get to move things along. You seem to be doing everything right so I just have a couple of questions for you. Has she totally stopped pooping or is just producing very little poop? Totally...

Imho, I won't bother trying to clean everything off when you're still trying to force-feed, because she'll just get dirty again. When I had to deal with bloat and force-feeding, I wipe off whatever I could with a wet towel, then a dry one and give her a bath. The rolling will be good as exercise...

Maybe it's just me, but i find the diagnosis a little woolly. Did the vet explain the wet bottom or give you a solution to the blockage? The reason why i am saying this is because blockage normally equates to no poop. I find it hard to believe that a blockage will cause a wet matted bottom...

Well, it's not exactly a blockage situation but my chin Kelly has undergone surgery for a rectum prolapse where the intestine won't stay in and the vet had to do emergency surgery to surture the intestine to the wall. She had intestinal damage during the prolapse although i got her to the vet in...

Thanks for all your advice! The problem is i have already bought the cage before i realised the bar spacings were too wide. I popped Lancy (my chin, also around 500g) in for a trial, she was really stressed out by the huge cage and got out easily within the hour. I was watching her though so...

Hi everyone, One of my girls is outgrowing her cage. She came to me at 3 months and was very shy and small. She is now 2 years old and has grown up but is still a little on the small side. I decided to get her a bigger cage but didn't want to purchase a chinchilla cage as the chin cages sold...

Thank you for your well wishes obcsed. Encantadora - Thanks for your suggestion. I believe we are clear of gut issues for now. Her poop did become smaller on the day of the extraction but has since returned to normal. Dawn - No, she's not on antibiotics. My vet doesn't believe in giving chins...

Thank you obcsed! I appreciate your help. Kelly seems better today and is eating more of the cc. She rummaged through her hay last night but i am not sure if she ate any, but at least she is touching them compared to before the extraction.

Hi everyone, My chin Kelly has just gotten one of her molars extracted because it was fractured and splintering. She is still in pain as the extraction occurred today and unfortunately painkillers are not an option due to her allergies. I would like to know if there is anything i can do for...

I'm glad that you managed to get Dr Hsu. Ah, so he works at the Sunset Way Branch on Wednesdays. Chinmama and melbur10 have good advice. Adding it with more water is fine too, as long as you get around 20g (dry) in everyday. You can spread out over 4 feedings (so 5g each feeding - 15ml) if you...

Hi Clarence, Which vet are you going to? There are not a lot of chin-competent vets in Singapore. I agree with Tunes, once your chin stops pooping there's not much time left. Everything about chins hinges on spotting symptoms and getting treatment EARLY. I don't have any affiliations with any...

I see that you're from Singapore. Just sharing some Singapore-specific information if you need. Chin-competent vets are of the utmost importance and unfortunately they are not common here. I don't want to see anybody go down the road I have with vets that have no knowledge of chins. Here are my...