Abscess?

[tunes]

I'm sure she'll let you know. Probably not for very long, unless it happens to feel really good.

Make sure the heat is evenly distributed throughout the rice. I have used those before on me and if you don't get the heat spread through the rice, that sucker can burn.

 

[alli713]

Haha okay.

Yeah, I'll test it out on myself first to make sure it's not too hot.

 

[schweppes]

Poor baby, but she does look adorable in the cone.

 

[Sasha]

Your cone looks flexbile. Loki's was plastic which made it really hard for him to eat, so I hand fed him which lasted a good couple weeks. He now hates being picked up but doesn't mind a good rub/pet.

Good luck with her Alli. I hope those lumps go away soon.

 

[alli713]

Yeah, it is flexible, so I guess that helps. Although it's sad to watch her try to maneuver in it

I hope they start clearing up so she can get out of it sooner than later.

One upside of the whole ordeal is that the vet checked her teeth out while we were there and looked at her molars too with that scope thing and said they all look really really good. Not that I was worried about that, but you know you get curious about it.

 

[alli713]

I think our only problem right now is that MuShu likes the medicine a bit too much. So now every time I go down there to give her the meds or even just check on them, she gets all excited and starts biting the bars and jumping around. When she gets the meds she gobbles them right up off the syringe and tries to hold on for more. Then when I'm giving her new hay or food inside her cage she nibbles on me, or anything else in the cage. I can tell she's not biting out of anger, as it doesn't hurt and she's not kacking at me to get out of the cage like she was at first yesterday since she was ticked off with all the handling. But it was a bit of a surprise at first.
And thankfully today she's a bit more mobile with the collar on.

Unfortunately because of the collar I separated her and Keiki, so I'm hoping when the collar comes off I can reunite them and not have any issues. Does anyone know if chins are separated for a week or two will they remember each other? I've never had to do this before. And the ways the cages are set up, I can't put their cages next to each other unless I put Keiki in a temp cage as well.

 

[Sasha]

I had to separate Loki and Bailey for those two weeks. I just put them back together and stayed up all night to watch them to make sure there wasn't any scuffles. You should be okay.

 

[tunes]

Did one or the other of them seem bothered by the collar? Because if they didn't, I would leave them together. It might make MuShu feel a bit isolated and lonely without her cagemate, especially with the satellite dish on.

Getting them back together will depend on them. I've had chins that visted the vets that picked up that vet smell? Their cagemates can still smell it on them when you try to put them back together and it can cause some fights. If you can just leave them together, that could save you a lot of hassle later.

 

[alli713]

Well, I didn't try putting MuShu in the cage with Keiki when she had the collar on, because I didn't know if Keiki would chew it up. It's a canvasy type material. And I'm renting it, well, I paid a deposit for it, which I can get back when I'm done using it, so if I could give it back unruined, that'd be great.

I suppose I could try putting Keiki in the smaller cage with MuShu, I don't really want to put MuShu back into the large cage because she's a bit unsturdy with it on. But I could try it and see if they leave the cone alone. I did think that Keiki seems a bit more scared without MuShu there.

 

[alli713]

Okay, so I put the two back together, Keiki seems a bit scared of the cone, every time MuShu would move she'd kack at her, and there was a couple times Keiki went into the spray stance, but no chasing or biting or anything.

It's been an hour and a half now and they're both just sleeping in there. Keiki would try and smell the cone and taste test it, so I think it's just that MuShu smells different and look different right now.

But, seeing as they're not trying to kill each other I think it will be okay, I'm just going to keep checking on them.

 

[lauralynne]

Poor baby! Hope she's doing better soon!

 

[tunes]

You have to admit, it'd be kind of weird having your roomie walking around wearing a satellite dish on her head. That would take a bit of getting used to. Hopefully within a couple days it can come off as the healing takes effect and MuShu and Keiki can forget all about it.

 

[Riven]

They there MuShu... did you uhm... do something different with your head today?

 

[alli713]

:rofl: yeah.. I'm sure she was like wth is that thing?! Is that even a chin?

But now they're snuggled up together, so I guess she figured it out that it was MuShu even with some weird huge thing on her head

 

[alli713]

Just thought I'd give an update since it's been a week since the discovery of her lumps..

Well, the meds seem to be working, the big lump which used to be around an inch long has shrunk nicely, now it's only about a third of the size it used to be. It kind of now looks like a healing scab, not as pink/red though, but it looks like it would be kind of itchy so I'm leaving the cone on until the skin is all the way back to normal. As it is, I'm sure if I took the cone off, she'd chew at the lump. The rest of the skin around the lump is nice and normal looking.

And her and Keiki are best buds like normal. Every time I go down there MuShu is sprawled across Keiki's back which is pretty amusing since Keiki is being smothered by the cone. )

 

[schweppes]

It's good to hear she's doing better. Did the vet never figure out what the lumps were?

 

[alli713]

Well we only went to the vet the one time, and at that time, no they didn't know exactly what they were. Figured out they weren't really an abscess.

I don't know all we could figure is that perhaps since they both were in the exact same spot that maybe her mammary glands or something in that area had gotten inflamed and she was bothering them by pulling out the fur to get at the area and that there was a little area that looked like it had been bitten (the one red spot I originally mentioned). And all that combined had just made them worse to the point where I noticed it.

So who knows?