Just wondering if anyone has encountered this, thought of better ways to deal with it or whether I actually could have left Cloud to himself and he would have eventually sorted it.
He was gnawing on the wooden base of one of their toys (as he usually does) but suddenly pulled up and started pawing at his face. Scooped him up and used a large recovery food syringe to check his mouth, because I was concerned there was something large stuck in there affecting his breathing or something (although there were no large chunks missing, but panic had set in), and noticed he had a fairly thick splinter of wood stuck between his bottom teeth. Managed to free it by combining fingers and syringe, none of which he was pleased with, although I managed to avoid getting thumped at. Once he was set back down he set about cleaning himself as normal (humans are filthy apparently) and there was no more pawing at his face.
It hasn't happened before in the time we've had them, I'm mainly wondering whether he would have been able to sort it himself, so that I know whether or not its best to remove it manually (given how much he hates being handled).
He was gnawing on the wooden base of one of their toys (as he usually does) but suddenly pulled up and started pawing at his face. Scooped him up and used a large recovery food syringe to check his mouth, because I was concerned there was something large stuck in there affecting his breathing or something (although there were no large chunks missing, but panic had set in), and noticed he had a fairly thick splinter of wood stuck between his bottom teeth. Managed to free it by combining fingers and syringe, none of which he was pleased with, although I managed to avoid getting thumped at. Once he was set back down he set about cleaning himself as normal (humans are filthy apparently) and there was no more pawing at his face.
It hasn't happened before in the time we've had them, I'm mainly wondering whether he would have been able to sort it himself, so that I know whether or not its best to remove it manually (given how much he hates being handled).