Post by Whizz on Dec 10, 2011 14:58:48 GMT
First of all, I'd like to say that I'm sorry for not being active as much. There are bigger issues in my life aswell as my opinion of the forum changing (I wouldn't elaborate on this).
It's been a bad day in my Degu home today, or should I say recently. Degus have been fighting off and on (Puberty) for the last few weeks. Chewy and Luigi have been fighting recently and nothing was coming of it (No injuries etc.).
However this morning when I woke up I was sad to find that Chewy wouldn't open his right eye. This concerned me as I wasn't sure what had happened, whether it was infected, his eye had actually prolapsed or he was holding it closed due to a injury around the eye. Chewy isn't very tame and hates getting out of the cage so I left him and decided I would pester him after breakfast. When I came back up to check on him, I noticed that his eye wasn't fully closed now but still slightly closed. I looked close to see he has a scratch around his eye and it had obviously gunked and scabbed over.. but had obviously accidentally gone on to his eye and I suspect his eye was slightly stuck together! I noticed that Mario was licking and cleaning his eye, which probably means that it was thanks to Mario that his eye is open now.
Luigi was pestering and trying to start up a fight again so I have had to isolate him in their run. Chewy is eating, drinking and running around both in his wheel and around the cage which is great. I was worried he was very poorly but he isn't too bad.
I'm going to see if I can try and get him out of the cage later so I can just dab his eye with water using cotton wool. As I said earlier, it looks to me as if his scratch near his eye had gunked and gone in his eye. Poor fella.
I hate it when they do this, it breaks my heart. I thought they could behave themselves atleast for Christmas but I guess not.
It's been a bad day in my Degu home today, or should I say recently. Degus have been fighting off and on (Puberty) for the last few weeks. Chewy and Luigi have been fighting recently and nothing was coming of it (No injuries etc.).
However this morning when I woke up I was sad to find that Chewy wouldn't open his right eye. This concerned me as I wasn't sure what had happened, whether it was infected, his eye had actually prolapsed or he was holding it closed due to a injury around the eye. Chewy isn't very tame and hates getting out of the cage so I left him and decided I would pester him after breakfast. When I came back up to check on him, I noticed that his eye wasn't fully closed now but still slightly closed. I looked close to see he has a scratch around his eye and it had obviously gunked and scabbed over.. but had obviously accidentally gone on to his eye and I suspect his eye was slightly stuck together! I noticed that Mario was licking and cleaning his eye, which probably means that it was thanks to Mario that his eye is open now.
Luigi was pestering and trying to start up a fight again so I have had to isolate him in their run. Chewy is eating, drinking and running around both in his wheel and around the cage which is great. I was worried he was very poorly but he isn't too bad.
I'm going to see if I can try and get him out of the cage later so I can just dab his eye with water using cotton wool. As I said earlier, it looks to me as if his scratch near his eye had gunked and gone in his eye. Poor fella.
I hate it when they do this, it breaks my heart. I thought they could behave themselves atleast for Christmas but I guess not.