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Beck had an infection in his foot after Dante bit him a few weeks ago. We started with chloramphenicol to get the infection under control before possible surgery, and after 2 days Beck stopped eating completely. We switched to Baytril injections (diluted with saline so they won't burn) and I...

Dante bit Beck's toe 3 weeks ago. I put Blu-Kote in it and took him to the vet initially, and it was okay. It was looking swollen the last couple of days so I took him back, and it's gotten infected. We're going to try antibiotics first and if that doesn't help it heal we'll have the toe...

Dr. Leonatti sent me Chico's last x-rays today. I thought I'd post them so y'all could see just how bad his teeth had gotten. They're a bit small after I had to resize them but you can see the big mass that is the lower left roots. :(

I took Chico (my baby with malocclusion) back to the vet this morning since he wasn't doing any better after his last trim. We did x-rays again to make sure we weren't missing anything. It was bad. You could barely tell where the separate roots were on the lower left. It was like a big bone...

My Chico has been on meloxicam for almost a year now, and on tramadol since November. He's doing great, considering the shape his poor teeth are in. He gets filings every 3 months, and with that, his pain meds, and handfeedings, his weight is holding steady and he's acting happy still. I've...

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook earlier today: "Anybody know the effects of forest fire smoke on chinchillas? I am freaking out. We are getting tons of smoke from a big Arizona fire and on the news they said to turn off your air and shut your windows. Right........ It is to hot to turn...

Chico is my 5 & 1/2 year old male with malocclusion and elongation. Here's the link to the thread with his x-rays from July: http://www.chins-n-hedgies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16990 He's been getting worse lately. He's not eating much of his Critical Care/Lifeline/baby food mixture...

Has anybody ever heard of and/or used acupuncture for pain control with malocclusion? It's something my vet mentioned at Chico's last visit as another option when we get to where tramadol doesn't help. Another vet in the clinic does it and I think with chinchillas she uses injections of...

My 5-year-old boy, Chico, has been having problems with his teeth since January. He had a physical at the vet's in September, and while he had been slowly losing some weight, there were no known problems. By the end of January he had lost close to 100 grams. I took him back to the vet where...

Hello everyone! My name is Tara and I live in NC. I have three precious chinchilla boys: Chico (5 year old standard), Beck (4 year old ebony), and Gizmo (6 years old in August, standard). They were all adopted from homes where their previous owners could no longer keep them for various...