https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/18015/weight-loss-in-a-chinchillaThis week I was presented with a 3 year old male entire chinchilla with a number of problems that the owner was concerned about. He lives alone in a chinchilla cage with a wood shaving substrate and a diet of primarily the chinchilla museli mix and aen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/108693?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:50:46 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:75d887a4-2728-40a4-af0e-7a35d6abe8beMarie Kubiak<p>Hi,</p> <p>with appetite loss, sneezing, weight loss and poor grooming I would have dental disease at the top of my list of things to rule out. Unfortunately teeth are just off both radiographs. Worth sedating for full oral exam and laterolateral and oblique rads if not improving.</p> <p>Heart murmurs are common in chinchillas and without clear clinical signs I wouldn&#39;t usually get too excited. If I look through my most pessimistic spectacles, there may be a small amount of peri-hilar oedema and poss increased opacity cranial to the heart (but may just be forelimb muscles overlain) but converted to jpeg they pixellate when I zoom in.&nbsp; Would be good if you can review the originals and see if these are true changes or just poor contrast on compressed images. Heart doesn&#39;t look enlarged.</p> <p>Marie</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/108647?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:07:30 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:184a28ae-d897-42ff-af9d-e43b6fd5c453Allan Muir<p>Lateral view</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>