Emergency Help in NH

[feistychins]

Hi Everyone,

I received this email today and I am completely swamped with appointments and my schedule is insane for the next week at least. If this chin does have a URI, she needs meds now.

Is there anyone in or around NH who is willing to take her and get her vet care???


I have a chinchilla who is sick with upper respiratory infection. She's just over two years old. I just started working after two months of unemployement where i used up every bit of savings i had. I can't take het to the vet, i've been denied care credit, and no one near can help with care or surrender. I live in southern NH...can you help or know of anyone who can? I don't want her to die just because I can't afford to help her

[Christiane]

I just wish I could.

[mistywaterwoman]

We have an old member who lives in Dover, which is about as south as you can get... however, I haven't had any contact with her in ages.

www.facebook.com/#!/thegella?fref=ts

I sent her a message with the content of your post, the link to this thread, and your e-mail address. I'm not sure if she still even has chins or would be willing to help in any way, but it was worth a shot!

[feistychins]

Well after finding out yesterday morning that this chin had been sick for a week and a half AND was bleeding from her nose for the last two days, I told the girl I would take her. I was going to get the chin at 7:00pm last night.

I already talked to my vet and had an appointment for this morning. Shortly before I was going to get the chin the girl calls and says she found someone to help pay for the vet visit, so she kept her.

She did have an URI and is on antibiotics for 14 days.

I hope she gets through this because the person told me the chin was not eating or drinking unless she hand fed her. However, she was putting oats on top of her food and that was the only thing the chin was eating. I told her to be careful because oats can constipate a chin sometimes and that critical care is what would get this chin through.

She asks if there is anything else she can give her (I thought as a treat) and told her about unsweetened shredded wheat. She then says the chin does not really like the cc so she was going to go out and get the shredded wheat.

I am now worried that the oats and shreedies are going to be given often and not so much of the cc. I hope I am wrong.

There is only so much you can do sometimes.

[Christiane]

Andrea, with the CC, when the animal does not like it, I add a drop of dyne to it and slowly wean them off of it. Or she can can get some lifeline which is also excellent and chins usually love it.

She can mix it all up together

I know dyne is sweet, but got to get it on something and going. And the time it will be on with not hurt it any more than it having only oats and shreddies

[mistywaterwoman]

I used to grind up Mazuri and use that for handfeeding, with just a little CC mixed in for consistency. The ground pellets would extrude (is that a word?) the water inside the syringe instead of coming out together, unless the CC was mixed in. It was about a 75/25 mix, if I remember right.
My point is, Evie would eat that because it tasted like her pellets rather than the CC. I also used to add in a little powdered rosehips as well.

[Inked Up Tara]

I do what Kara does. I also have dyne too. Poor chin. Too many oats will deprive the chin of nutrients as well

[feistychins]

I have also mixed things in with the cc and gotten good results. Not sure if this person is willing to do that.

I will email her in a few days to see how things are going.