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« on: October 03, 2009, 09:49:26 AM »
Hi,
New to the forum, I had experience with sick Chins and I've seen teeth problems and digestive track issues, but this one is different.
I have a female chin about 11 years old, she was doing great up until 3 days ago when she was not eating as much. All of suddent things deteriorated quickly and now she completely stopped eating and struggling to stand up. I looked at her poops and they look ok and continues to poop a little though it's about half the size of normal (seems like no digestive track blockage). I don't see any signs of diarrhea and now she completed stopped eating/drinking so I can't really hand-feed her. Now she's on dying bed and losing heat.
so I have a question: how do I know if my chin died of old age? what are the signs of old age? do old chins stop eating and wait for the inevitable like the elephants?
thanks in advance for your help.