Pink-Eyed Seizures?

[Anna]

So, my friend has a hetero beige chinchilla (we got ours at the same time from the same person, they aren't related though, apparently.) Anyway, sometimes its head does this weird twitching thing, almost like a tick, that kind of goes off for a couple seconds and then passes. It doesn't affect him mobility wise really. He will run around and then stop and do the head twitch and keep going, sometimes as you pick him up too. He eats well, drinks, weighs 500 or so grams, still a youngster. I was doing some random research on it and I read that tans and other color mutations with pink eyes are prone to have seizures, the level of extremity is variable?

My Furby doesn't do it at all and this chin's is very minor looking and he recovers immediately. Can you all help me shed some light on this? I am really just curious if there's any truth to the "pink-eyed seizure"
Thank you!

 

[Becky]

No, there is not. Eye color depends on the genetics of the animal (beige for the most part) and does not cause any problems.

 

[Anna]

Interesting. It seemed a little weird. But do you think that her chin is having seizures? Or something else?

 

[tunes]

I've never even heard of a pink eyed seizure.

I had a black velvet that used to do something similar to that when you held her or when she was nervous. She would absolutely panic and her head would twitch from side to side. I thought she was having a seizure, but it was just a strange little quirk.

 

[AZChins]

The only thing that I can think of that would be different for a chin with the pink or red eyes is that sometimes the **** beiges seem to have a little extra sensitive to light. I don't think that there's any genetic predisposition to beiges having seizures...I'll have to agree with everyone else. I'd think that all colors have the same chance of having a seizure disorder of whatever sort those come in...

 

[starleomach]

I agree. I have never heard of Pink eye seizures.

 

[Anna]

haha, thanks guys. It baffled me a bit.

 

[corley]

My chin does that.. I think it's when he gets excited and nervous.. If I'm just sitting next to his cage looking at him, he'll start twitching his head around, then shoot across the cage and freak out.. you sure he/she just isn't "popcorning"

 

[Anna]

No, this is like when he's stationary. And he doesn't seem to run away especially fast the way they do when freaked out. He just assumes his hopping around and chewing on everything. Weird.