GreenwoodChinchillas ([info]greenwoodchins) wrote,
@ 2005-08-04 23:56:00
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Lost female :(
Tonight i lost a female Charcoal carrier.

She had arrived to me preggers and i hadnt know it - she was gaining weight steadily but tonight i found her in her cage dead.v Veyt thinks the kits were overdue and were far down in pelvis but it had not opened for htem to pass :( I feel terrible that hadnt found her earlier and been able to get her to the vet to save her andhopefully the kits through a C section.

I have been lucky this year - this is the first female to have problems with a birth that needed vet asistance for me - in the number of litters i have had this is extremely lucky.



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[info]cazzh
2005-08-05 02:27 pm UTC (link)
It's a dreadful shame but there was nothing you could have done. You cannot be watching every single pet every minute of the day and that is fact. Small animals hide their pain and discomfort as they are prey animals and it is not in their interests to show weakness as that attracts predators. Therefore we either do not find out until they are seriously ill or they just quietly die before we realise.

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