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Old 09-12-16, 09:15 PM   #1
FinishingFlight
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Lethargic and Im fearing the worst

So I spoke a while ago about one of my females just not eating for me and loosing weight. Well after putting her in a tub she started eating better and I charted her weight. Well today I went to check for poo and take her out for her monthly weigh in. I don't know if she is going to make it through the night until I can take her to a vet in the morning.

She normally is my grumpiest hoggie, hissing and bluffing if I touch her, or mess with her bedding too much. Today I didn't even get a hiss when I went to move her. She didn't move much at all. She was stiff and didn't curl around my hand or anything. She was always very active and flighty. I turned her upside down and she didn't right herself. I had to turn her back over 40 seconds later.

I weighed her and she now weighs 47g, when I got her she was 72g. She ate a very small fuzzy three days ago and seemed to be her hissy self. Looking at her closely now it kind of looks like the mass from the mouse is still in the front half of her body, farther up than normal and it hasn't moved since she ate. I'm soaking her on a warm damp washcloth (with very little water as I don't want her to drown). She had some fecal material leaking from her cloaca. So I wonder if it's a blockage.

If she had been fine before and isn't now I'm really wondering what I did wrong. She was very stressed and a problem feeder the first two months. So I moved her into a tub with aspen chips, a hide on both ends and a small water dish. The hot side is 87* on top of the aspen and 94* underneath, with the cold around 77* on top of the aspen. I've tried to keep her eating every four days for weight gain but she has been inconsistent. She does not get handled except for bedding change and weight checks since she gets so stressed out.

I'm short I'm at a loss and hope that she can make it through the night so I can go to a vet tomorrow. If anyone has any advice of something that can help her now I would appreciate it.
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