hi i have a chinnie with a runny eye. have not changed food or substrait. but when i recieved her (only a few days ago) she was matted, not very fat and poorly cared for. she has now had a good grooming and sevral sand baths as well as a constant full bowl of food with the odd treat..

(she didnt know what the sand bath was for to start of with)

Could this be a big problem i have coming... she is booked in with the vets on weds for a check over... is there anything i can do to keep it from getting worse....

Is warm salt water a good thing to wash it with or should i keep water away from her eyes

It dosent look painful, swollen or irritating. It just has a milky watery discharge that dosent dry up..

or could it be something in her eye...

please guys im confused with this one..

i dont know much about chinchillas but are her teeth ok? only malloclusion can cause runny eyes in rabbits and i presume its the same for chins, or maybe shes got conjunctivitis, whatever is causing it im sure the vet will sort her out

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she was picked on in the litter and was beatten up at somepoint as she has got a messed up lip too so when she is out next i will have a grab and look ....

aww poor little thing

tbh if its the back teeth you might not be able to tell, but im sure the vet will get to the bottom of it, and hopefully you'll get some sound advice from the very knowledgable rodent folk too

good luck with her, i love chinchillas

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"If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes."
L David Mech

We have doomed the Wolf not for what it is, but for what we have deliberately and mistakenly perceived it to be..the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer..which is, in reality no more than a reflexed images of ourself." -Farley Mowat

one of my chinchillas is alergic to sand, she gets a runny gunky eye from it

as has already been said though, it would be well worth getting her teeth checked out, teeth and eye problems are so closely related its better safe then sorry

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yes i rang the vet and explained it to her she said keep an eye on it tonight and if it gets worse over the course of today i am to take her then and there...

if not then tomoz is a defo vets day