Pipari is not eating pellets...

[teemu]

Slightly worrying, but Pipari has almost not touched her pellets today. I noticed that only some (half a dozen individual pellets or so) had been removed from the bowl over the day, and most are still there. She went through them when I showed them to her, but seemed to have no interest in eating them.

She's intrested in food in general, and happily ate all the seeds I gave her, and I noticed her hay having diminished a lot, as well as the forage vanishing very quickly when I put more in her cage. So she's obviously not feeling ill or anything. It's still somewhat worrisome since normally she empties her food bowl of all the pellets as soon as any become available (I only feed her controlled amounts two times a day).

I'll have to keep monitoring her. It might be that she has managed to stash a pile away somewhere and is just not interested right now, but her usual stash (in her hammock) was empty. If her bowl stays the same tomorrow I'll have to go through her cage and see if she is accumulating a hoard somewhere...

I even tried putting some seeds mixed into the pellets, but she just ate those and scoffed at the rest...

[savvy]

Its possible that she's just bored with the pellets. They do taste exactly the same each time.

As long as she's eating I wouldn't worry too much.

[teemu]

Yes, hopefully it isn't anything. I've lost multiple pets to intestinal blockage, so abnormalities in eating make me very wary.

She is behaving somewhat abnormally, I must say. Last night she did not seem interested in saying good night or begging for a bit more food, and she's been less keen to run up to me today as well. Her pellets remain untouched, but she ate her seeds and forage for the most part. Though I did notice that she had actually stashed a couple of seeds, which is REALLY weird for her. She always eats them voraciously and immediately. Now she had carried about three into her hammock (but ate most, I've given her some more than normal)

I'm hoping it's a heat that's making her behave a bit off. It's about that time of the month, and I did hear some familiar screaming from Posso's and Pulla's cage. So she might just be feeling it. Still, if it keeps like this, I'm not sure if I'm comfortable just seeing how things pan out...

[bouncy]

Are her teeth ok? Thinking molars in particular. They can often eat smaller things like seeds, but struggle with larger things like pellets.

[teemu]

Yes, I was thinking of that as well. She has not been checked, since she's just a year old now. It started rather abruptly too, so I was not thinking about that as the first possibility, but it would be good to have her mouth looked at.

She has been a bit more normal this evening. Over the day she was pretty sleepy and all, and only ate treats, but started showing more interest in her pellets again and emptied most of her bowl. I'll monitor her and see how things shape out, but at least it's making me feel a lot better about the chances of it not being something really dangerous and intestinal.

[teemu]

Yeah, pellets were empty again by the time I got home (I left for school in the morning). She isn't eating them as quickly as normal, but there does not seem to be any problems with her actually eating. It's strange since it's such a sudden change. I even reduced her pellets again a bit as it seemed that she was starting to climb in weight again (not a lot, but just trying to gauge what the right amount is for her), and previously she's been absolutely ravenous even with larger amounts. Now it seems like she's suddenly decided to act a lot more like the others about these things.

[deguconvert]

Well ... I think it is a good idea to keep an eye on her. These could be nothing, or they could be something that she is still managing to keep under control. If you see something more change, it wouldn't be a bad thing to have her looked at.

[teemu]

I agree completely. Her behavior has normalized now and she's back to being as voracious, but I am keeping a close eye on her