JadaKissed143
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My boyfriend and I got our chinchilla from a friend a little less than a year ago. Her name is Arya. While we did out research, we were still new chin owners and took things day by day. About 6 months after we got her, she managed to undo the latch on her cage (it closes from the top as opposed to the front) and got out. Now we also own 4 cats, none of whom had ever tried to harm her or even hiss at her. In fact, there of the cats barely even noticed her. The one that did is literally too stupid to even attempt to hurt another person or animal. And I don't say that to be mean. I say it because she's really just not a bright cat. So Arya got free and I'm assuming bounced around the bedrooms and hallway. When Michael and I returned home, all we saw were tufts of fur where there shouldn't have been and an empty cage. And cue panic. When we finally found Arya, she was covered in blood on one side of her face. We took her to a vet as soon as one opened the next day, and by then, the bleeding was stopped and she was her usual calm and cuddly self. The vet said that while the cut was minor, the blood matted her fur which was why it looked so bad. She said Arya's eye looked like she caught conjunctivitis though, and gave us a liquid medicine we had to feed her twice daily and an ointment to put in her eye also twice daily. The eye cleared up within days and she was perfectly fine again. We brought her back a week later and the vet said she was fine. Said to use the rest of the liquid and to throw out the ointment in a couple weeks if we didn't use it all because it wouldn't be good much longer. Well, now, almost four months later, Arya's eye is acting up again. Yesterday, we came home at about 1:30 in the afternoon and her eye was a little gunked up. Then today, I just got home and her eye was completely stuck shut and there was a white, kind of thick discharge in her eye. Should I be worried? Is there a chance that the conjunctivitis came back? Should I take her to the vet again? Any advice would be incredibly helpful.
