Mandy
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So,
I went to the shelter today. Usually don't on Tuesday, but the degus I was fostering were getting adopted and I had to meet the adopter there.
I walk in, sit down, and look out the window. I see a truck pull up with some white thing in the back of the bed.
I overhear him telling a staff member he has a chinchilla to turn in.
It took a few minutes to get the paperwork filled out and filed.
When the man brought the cage in the lobby my heart sank.
In the corner was this little (light) ebony chinchilla who was so overheated from direct sunlight in the back of the truck bed all the ride there.. and while they were filling out paperwork.
It looks like he had been sitting there for days though, as the corner he was in had nothing but urine under the guard.
We took him to the back and I sexed him and went straight to trying to get him cool.
This poor baby was a few minutes from death, so I was given an ice pack and held him on it (with a towel covering) until a ceramic bowl froze in the freezer. He wasn't even responding to me and I thought he was dead already. This was around 1pm. He sat in the frozen bowl and ice pack until around 2:30 when he cooled down enough to become responsive again. I had also been cooling his ears with a cool damp cloth throughout.
I wrapped him in a towel and brought him in the lobby.
At around 2:45-3:00 he was given sub-q fluids and that seemed to perk him up a bit more.
He's my new foster baby until he gets better and can be adopted.
He's still very very weak and can't really walk around or move without shaking horribly, but he is getting some much needed rest..then I will try to feed him some soaked pellets.
Here are some of his pictures.
1 - In the frozen bowl with an icepack under the white towel. Chin-chillin!
2-3 - feeling a bit better after some sub-q fluids.
He really needs a name..any suggestions?
I went to the shelter today. Usually don't on Tuesday, but the degus I was fostering were getting adopted and I had to meet the adopter there.
I walk in, sit down, and look out the window. I see a truck pull up with some white thing in the back of the bed.
I overhear him telling a staff member he has a chinchilla to turn in.
It took a few minutes to get the paperwork filled out and filed.
When the man brought the cage in the lobby my heart sank.
In the corner was this little (light) ebony chinchilla who was so overheated from direct sunlight in the back of the truck bed all the ride there.. and while they were filling out paperwork.
It looks like he had been sitting there for days though, as the corner he was in had nothing but urine under the guard.
We took him to the back and I sexed him and went straight to trying to get him cool.
This poor baby was a few minutes from death, so I was given an ice pack and held him on it (with a towel covering) until a ceramic bowl froze in the freezer. He wasn't even responding to me and I thought he was dead already. This was around 1pm. He sat in the frozen bowl and ice pack until around 2:30 when he cooled down enough to become responsive again. I had also been cooling his ears with a cool damp cloth throughout.
I wrapped him in a towel and brought him in the lobby.
At around 2:45-3:00 he was given sub-q fluids and that seemed to perk him up a bit more.
He's my new foster baby until he gets better and can be adopted.
He's still very very weak and can't really walk around or move without shaking horribly, but he is getting some much needed rest..then I will try to feed him some soaked pellets.
Here are some of his pictures.
1 - In the frozen bowl with an icepack under the white towel. Chin-chillin!
2-3 - feeling a bit better after some sub-q fluids.
He really needs a name..any suggestions?
Geez a name. I've had my new chinchilla for three weeks and haven't found the right name yet. 
