EMSChins
Hendryx Chinchillas
Hi Brittany - thanks for asking! I have been swamped so have not had time to update. Sugar is doing great this week. We went back to the exotics vet in Columbus yesterday for a re-check. Tonight he will get his last dose of injectable Baytril and will start on oral antibiotics for the next couple of weeks to make sure we have gotten the ear infection cleared up. He will also get his last round of IV fluids tonight. So as of tomorrow he will only be on oral Baytril and Benebac, with supplemental feeding as needed while he is on the antibiotics. He has come to love feeding time and he just lays back in my arms and takes the syringe like it is a bottle, generally he falls asleep while eating. He is eating pellets now and also his hay and pooping and playing like a normal chinchilla. He may graduate to the chin room soon. My study will seem awfully lonely!
He does still have the head tilt and the vet thinks he always will but he manages fine with it. He falls over pretty easily if he gets moving too fast or runs into something but in general he is great! When we set him down he generally does a little roll before finding his sea legs but it doesn't seem to bother him and he just goes on his way!
When in a deep sleep he will sleep in an upright position with his head held midline but otherwise he generally leans up on a wooden block with his left paw and his right paw drawn up to his chest and his head tilted to the right. It is almost as if he has lost some use of the right front arm and shoulder due to the torticollis. Sometimes he just sleeps all splayed out on his side.
As long as he continues to eat and increases his fluid intake from the water bottle once all of the supplemental feedings and Iv's stop, he will make a wonderful pet. He is already spoiled rotten!
He does still have the head tilt and the vet thinks he always will but he manages fine with it. He falls over pretty easily if he gets moving too fast or runs into something but in general he is great! When we set him down he generally does a little roll before finding his sea legs but it doesn't seem to bother him and he just goes on his way!
When in a deep sleep he will sleep in an upright position with his head held midline but otherwise he generally leans up on a wooden block with his left paw and his right paw drawn up to his chest and his head tilted to the right. It is almost as if he has lost some use of the right front arm and shoulder due to the torticollis. Sometimes he just sleeps all splayed out on his side.
As long as he continues to eat and increases his fluid intake from the water bottle once all of the supplemental feedings and Iv's stop, he will make a wonderful pet. He is already spoiled rotten!
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