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My chin for the past 6 months or so has been battling issues with her right eye. It went from an abcess (that we drained for a month) on the top of the eye, to a bulging eye (that got better for a short time), to a corneal ulcer that is also bulging her eye currently. Her ulcer now after about...

So for the past few months my chin has been having one issue after another in one of her eyes. She initially had an abcess above her eye, and now her eye has started to bulge. With this eye bulge its also causing other issues (corneal ulcer and conjuctivitis currently). I just got a new vet...

So my chin has been going through a number of health issues in one of her eyes. Its morphed from being an abcess above the eye, to a bulging eye and now apparently a corneal ulcer with conjunctivitis - This is all happened for the past few months. I just got a new vet, and they suspect that the...

My chin unfortunately seems to potentially be having another issue with an abcess. After bringing her to the vet they recommended that I start a course of Baytril/Enrolfloxacin. I have read and heard about supplementing with Acidophilus which I will pick up tomorrow when stores are open again...

Our chinchilla recently went through a medical issue back in Jan-Feb 2020 (I noted the thread here for the history: Chinchilla bald patch above eye?). The vet basically found an abcess above her right eye, and we had to drain it and treat it with a topical antibiotic for a while. Since then...

I currently have a chin that is about 7 years old that has lost some weight in the past two weeks. What had happened was that my chin weighed in at about 585 grams, then we noticed she had a growth on her eye. This led to us bringing her to the vet the next day, which they diagnosed it as an...

Hi all My chinchilla was born in 2013 June (so about 7 years young). Recently we noticed her right eye, the fur around it seemed "poofy", like she messed it up. Today when we were playing with her, we noticed that same eye seems to have developed a bald patch? This developed over the past...

Long time lurker, and thankfully have not had to post anything up until now. I am the proud dad of an approximately 6 year old female chinchilla. The following is her general current state: She has been with us since she was about 6 months old, always fed oxbow pellets, timothy grass and...

Chinchilla - Not eating, drinking, lethargic & bit of teeth grinding - please help! I have been a long time lurker reading lots of threads on this forum for chinchilla help and advice and sadly I am now in dire need of advice. I have a chinchilla that will be 4 years old next month Sunday I...