Chinchilla Matted Fur Under Chin

Remove the fur around the penis apply vaseline and watch to make sure the swelling goes down.

Chinchilla matted fur under chin.

The new strands push the old out of the way. Feel around your cat s legs under its chin below its tail on its tummy and on the sides of its body. Step 4 isolate the matted clump of hair from your cat s coat. Then under her chin she had matted fur.

I also noticed a patch with no fur under her chin. Consider applying a pet safe antibiotic ointment i use neosporin without the added pain relief three to four times a day. Her paws also. In perfect conditions chinchillas prime 1 3 of their fur every 90 days.

High humidity can affect a chinchilla s coat by creating thick clumps or mats that can be difficult to groom. This is almost surely due to dental disease in chinchilla s. Im not sure what this is maybe its malocclusion. When there is dental disease they will drool and drop water food so that they get this classic matting under the chin and on the chest.

Isolate the chinchilla and put a collar on him. Because these animals evolved in a low humidity environment they have difficulty coping with extremely different climate conditions. She drinks a lot and eats alright but not sure. Season temperature or humidity change will cause a chin to prime earlier or later than normal.

I went to check it out and it seems to be a little matted spot of fur. Clumped or matted fur. Fur priming is when a chinchilla sheds it s old fur and replaces it with a new coat. How to quickly and easily remove mats from a chinchilla.

Last night i noticed a hard spot under my chin s belly and at first it felt like a piece of poop got stuck in his fur. Hair growing back into the chewed regions may be shorter and darker than the original fur. Usually it s the molars that are the issue. Chewing occurs most often over the back and tail but can occur anywhere on the body.

My chinchilla bella is 4 this year and when i first bought her she seemed to be fine. The hard part is finding the issue. It feels kind of like plastic is stuck in it but i m positive that s not the case. Then her whiskers broke and they haven t grown back since.