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Mama Doe
You might know Ralph goes through bouts of stasis every month, well he's become very weird over the past few days. He's no longer eating pellets or veg or anything other than hay and grass (which is obviously a good thing, but his strong appetite for everything was always one of his big characteristics!) He has lost quite a lot of weight about half a kilo in the past few weeks too.
He seems to no longer be the dominant one -- he was very very dominant before with Ruby, and now it looks like they've evened out. She is now the brave one who comes up to the bars for cuddles and to be lifted out and puts her head out for him to groom it, whereas he just huddles under her with his back to me. I can also tell that she knows there is something wrong. She does a certain type of grooming when he is not happy/not well and she's been doing it all day today. It's the same type of grooming she did when he was in stasis in May and in April. Very different to how he used to be.
There's nothing I can put my finger on apart from the not eating pellets or veg, but he just isn't himself and seems to frequently look uncomfortable. I just get a sense that he is fragile and handle him more carefully than the other two who are like mini rollercoasters scampering around. Ralph would always prefer just to hunker down and be stroked.
I think it might be time fora trip to Great Western, but does anyone have any idea what it could possibly be?
He seems to no longer be the dominant one -- he was very very dominant before with Ruby, and now it looks like they've evened out. She is now the brave one who comes up to the bars for cuddles and to be lifted out and puts her head out for him to groom it, whereas he just huddles under her with his back to me. I can also tell that she knows there is something wrong. She does a certain type of grooming when he is not happy/not well and she's been doing it all day today. It's the same type of grooming she did when he was in stasis in May and in April. Very different to how he used to be.
There's nothing I can put my finger on apart from the not eating pellets or veg, but he just isn't himself and seems to frequently look uncomfortable. I just get a sense that he is fragile and handle him more carefully than the other two who are like mini rollercoasters scampering around. Ralph would always prefer just to hunker down and be stroked.
I think it might be time fora trip to Great Western, but does anyone have any idea what it could possibly be?
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