Two in the Back

It's a chinchilla epidemic apparently.

As for like...what two months straight? We had four chinchillas in a cage together.
And overall they did just fine together.

But then in the beginning of January we noticed one was having issues with his eye in that it was getting goopy enough to seal the eye shut.
So we took him off the floor, took him to the vet, and kept him isolated from the others while we treated the eye with medications and such. 

And while we treated him...we actually finally managed to sell one of the chinchillas Woot!!

But then, the day that I deemed the chinchilla's eye recovered and that he could return to the floor---I discovered a different Chinchilla had a lump on his throat. 

O.o
How this lump occurred, I have no idea.

But it makes sense why we didn't notice it before.
Because with there being four chinchillas in the cage...we don't usually end up handling all of them that often since when customers want to look at them we only really need to get out one at a time.

But with the lump...that meant I needed to isolate the chinchilla and take him to the vet and get him medications to help that go away.

So we were back to having just two chinchillas on the floor. 
Which is fine, that's usually how many we have anyways so it was kinda nice to have a normal amount back on the floor.

However.
Apparently yesterday my coworkers noticed that the chinchilla with the eye problem....was once again having eye problems. 
Meaning that we needed to isolate him again.

Leaving just one chinchilla on the floor for us to sell, as the one with the lump is still getting treated.
But now we have two chinchillas in iso.

Which is so crazy because I don't really recall us ever having more than one chinchilla needing to be taken off the floor at a time.

Thankfully.
To be on the safe side, I kept the eye drops we used for the chinchilla the first go around, just in case we needed them again.
So he doesn't need to go to the vet...yet....because we can just start up the same treatment recommended for him the first go around.

Hopefully the eyes recover quickly.
But if we don't. We'll just take him to the vet again and see what else he needs to help his goopy eyes.

Hopefully we get both chinchillas back out sooner rather than later. 

-Sarnic Dirchi