fluffy's nearly three years old and lives with her two daughters. i have noticed that there are crumbled pellets in their bowl but thought that maybe it came from the pellet bag as they are all eating hay and are keen on chews - demolish them without problems. then i saw her last week at the bowl, picking up nuggets, taking a few bits and then putting them back in and taking another one. thought she was being a picky girl!
yesterday fluffy seemed a little less active than usual so i got her out to look at her and she felt smaller. i weighed her and she'd lost weight but i am not entirely sure what her 'normal' weight is as she'd been pregnant twice (she was a boy who turned out to be a girl so when we found out she was a girl, she'd had triplets and was already pregnant with luella) so it was always pregnant/nursing/post nursing. still i think she should be bigger than she is now. she didn't want any chews but she had oats and alfalfa hay.
obviously my first thought was teeth - i checked her front teeth, they're fine and they're the right colour. i booked her in to go see the vet so her back teeth can be checked and anything else investigated if this is ok. she's going in on tuesday.
today her activity levels seem back to normal. i've given her a dried rose hip - these are quite hard so i thought if it's her mouth, she probably wouldn't want to eat that but she had it without any trouble. i also gave her a very hard compressed grass pellet and again, she chewed away.
so i don't know. if it is not her teeth - but this is to be seen - what else could it be?
