Jewel0504
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Hello,
I had rescued a female bunny awhile back. Sadly she had a reaction to anesthesia and passed away during her spay. So I decided to adopt an already spayed girl, and drove nearly 2 hours away to be able to do so. I ended up adopting a 4 year old chinchilla mix. She has had a rough time since she came home. She barely eats veggies, pellets or hay, and she isn’t drinking much. She had blood in her urine and was at the vet overnight just 2 days after adopting her. We had her tested and found she has crystals in her urine. I noticed the farm fed way too many pellets, I’m now assuming maybe made from alfalfa. I think she is also a little overweight. Which I know doesn’t help with the crystals in her urine. But she doesn’t want to come out of her cage to exercise. I think she is just too scared going from the farm, here, to the vet, then back to here all within 5 days.
I have been researching the safest veggies for her, trying to find the lowest calcium pellets I can get my hands on, and desperately trying to get her to drink! She has a bowl and a bottle, and I just bought apple juice to try to sweeten the water. How much apple juice should I be mixing into a gallon of water? Any suggestions on pellets that would be safest for her? And how can I tempt this poor girl to eat more? People keep telling me to “take her back and get my money back”. That is not an option. She isn’t a toy I bought, she a part of my family now and I want to make her happy and healthy.
I had rescued a female bunny awhile back. Sadly she had a reaction to anesthesia and passed away during her spay. So I decided to adopt an already spayed girl, and drove nearly 2 hours away to be able to do so. I ended up adopting a 4 year old chinchilla mix. She has had a rough time since she came home. She barely eats veggies, pellets or hay, and she isn’t drinking much. She had blood in her urine and was at the vet overnight just 2 days after adopting her. We had her tested and found she has crystals in her urine. I noticed the farm fed way too many pellets, I’m now assuming maybe made from alfalfa. I think she is also a little overweight. Which I know doesn’t help with the crystals in her urine. But she doesn’t want to come out of her cage to exercise. I think she is just too scared going from the farm, here, to the vet, then back to here all within 5 days.
I have been researching the safest veggies for her, trying to find the lowest calcium pellets I can get my hands on, and desperately trying to get her to drink! She has a bowl and a bottle, and I just bought apple juice to try to sweeten the water. How much apple juice should I be mixing into a gallon of water? Any suggestions on pellets that would be safest for her? And how can I tempt this poor girl to eat more? People keep telling me to “take her back and get my money back”. That is not an option. She isn’t a toy I bought, she a part of my family now and I want to make her happy and healthy.