jessonehundred
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sorry if this is at all disturbing to anybody but I have to explain it for answers
I noticed my chins had been pushing the hay from the shelves and onto the floor over the last week or so. I was cleaning it out and I noticed a clump of what I thought was chinchilla hair on the bottom of the cage. I picked it up (thankfully i had gloves on).. and was absolutely shocked to notice it was a dead animal. for some reason I assumed it was a dead mouse, and then my boyfriend asked if it was a baby chinchilla. It looks as if it has been there a while, it is very decomposed and flat. It has quite a bit of fur, and all i can see is a small tail and a little foot. It is about 2 1/2 inches long. I am very sad and disgusted, and scared of what it could be..
I determined it is either
a) a dead mouse that was somehow in the hay I had been giving them
b) one of them had a baby and it passed away without me knowing or realizing
or c) (although it looks too big to be a mouse that ive seen around here) it is a mouse that got in the cage and died????
I have a mom and her baby in the cage right now. the mom is 4 and the baby is 2. I know the mom is a girl (she had the baby) and the when I brought the baby to the vet when I got her, I was told she was a girl.
I am just very confused and wondering what people might think?
If they happen to have been wrong about the baby, and they did reproduce together, what are some signs that the mom could have been recently pregnant besides any obvious ones that I could have noticed???
thank you for any input... hope everyone is safe in the storm!!
I noticed my chins had been pushing the hay from the shelves and onto the floor over the last week or so. I was cleaning it out and I noticed a clump of what I thought was chinchilla hair on the bottom of the cage. I picked it up (thankfully i had gloves on).. and was absolutely shocked to notice it was a dead animal. for some reason I assumed it was a dead mouse, and then my boyfriend asked if it was a baby chinchilla. It looks as if it has been there a while, it is very decomposed and flat. It has quite a bit of fur, and all i can see is a small tail and a little foot. It is about 2 1/2 inches long. I am very sad and disgusted, and scared of what it could be..
I determined it is either
a) a dead mouse that was somehow in the hay I had been giving them
b) one of them had a baby and it passed away without me knowing or realizing
or c) (although it looks too big to be a mouse that ive seen around here) it is a mouse that got in the cage and died????
I have a mom and her baby in the cage right now. the mom is 4 and the baby is 2. I know the mom is a girl (she had the baby) and the when I brought the baby to the vet when I got her, I was told she was a girl.
I am just very confused and wondering what people might think?
If they happen to have been wrong about the baby, and they did reproduce together, what are some signs that the mom could have been recently pregnant besides any obvious ones that I could have noticed???
thank you for any input... hope everyone is safe in the storm!!