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« on: November 10, 2015, 07:38:17 AM »
Hello. My name is Gregory and i had one of my pet chinchillas die unexpectedly yesturday. Im at a loss and cant stop wondering what happened.
Rebecca wasnt eating well since 2-3 months. We noticed weight loss and stopped it from falling under 419 grams. I think she might have been mallnourished at that point. She was taken to the vet and after a fev weeks and 2 vets she was diagnosed with a weak kidney and started taking rubenal 1/2 tab a day and lespevet 0,4mg a day. After the feeding started she was put on Her daily weight was between 435 in the morning and 470 before bed time. She used to eat dense pulp feed through syringe for the first month. after the kidney diagnosis we switched to hard pellets which she ate for about 2-3 weeks such hand feeding was time consuming and after those 3 weeks i have switched to half pulp half solid diet to keep her weight up and keep her teeth working.
Second problem was her leg, she lost feeling in it after a botched up blood sampling. The leg went limp and we were told itll be back to normal in a day or two, it never fully recovered and eventualy we noticed she has no feeling in the leg at all (despite having learned to use it and to not dragg it behind her - she looked as if the leg was healing) because she bit off her finger to the bone clearly thinking its a foreign object ( no feeling in the fingers)
After that she was put on milgama (red liquid) 0.2mg every other day and karsivan 1/3 tab a day.
We were feeding her those 4 medicine and she seemed to be stable and her leg was recovering, she lost all 3 fingers in the leg but after that she regained feeling in her leg and was healing nicely.
she started drooling a bit a week ago which was especialy visible in the morning when she slept. The vet filed her teeth abit and the drooling stopped... for two days... to avoid having her teeth be filed i added a thinly chopped hay into her handfeeding diet. She didnt like it but she soldiered through and eaten it mixed with hard pellets and thick pellet paste.
I thaught her teeth may hurt a bit but i fed her again with a tiny bit of hay andthe other stuff yesturday. She gave up eating half through the meal which never happened before. One moment she ate at normal speed sometimes spazzing with her feet ( pain?) and fev seconds later she went lethargic and started chewing very slowly eventualy stopping, keeping the food in the mouth but not chewing or chewing very slowly...
She was a bit lethargic in the afternoon ( she always was calm but this was a bit too much) so we decided to take her to vet in the morning, at the evening feeding she still was lethergic but ate a bit faster, she ate half of what she normally did and i put her back in the cage, she hanged her head off the shelf and seemed to be resting. Before bed i checked on her one more time and i noticed she was swaying and going limp in my hand, i immediately decided we had to go to the vet becuse something was terribly wrong. She didnt seem to have problems with breathing, she squeked a fev times and went silent, unfortunatley before the cab arrived she was most likely already dead. 15 minutes later at the vets the doctor after trying to ventilate her a bit and checkign her pupil dialation said she was gone. I noticed no nostrils flaring on the buss stop and started tryign to vent her a little bit but ofcourse it wasnt enough.
Im at a loss to what happened, was it my tough food put in her mouth, was it the 5mm long cut up broken up strips of hay? was it the medicine? She seemed fine 2 days earlier running around and being active after having her leg bandage changed... was it a shock due to tooth ake when eating? Despite the sickness she was slowly improving both in eating and with the healing of the leg. Im tormented by the question what happened?
If anyone think this looks familiar and may know what this might have been please help me out.
