Chinchillas eat grass but cannot eat vegetables. The digestive system of chinchillas is very fragile and cannot eat food containing too much water. Vegetable leaves have a lot of water. If eaten, it is likely to cause diarrhea, dehydration, and even Endangering the chinchilla's life. When raising chinchillas, chinchilla food should be the main food, and vegetables and other foods can be fed occasionally.

What to do if your chinchilla accidentally eats vegetable leaves:

1. Stop the main food and replace it with grass food

Most chinchillas The main food is eaten together with grass food. Chinchillas will prefer to eat the main food because the main food is rich in nutrients and has good palatability. However, grass food has an obvious auxiliary effect on chinchillas that have gastrointestinal diseases caused by accidentally eating vegetable leaves. When your chinchilla has slightly soft stools, be prepared to change to grass food. During the treatment process, snacks and supplementary food other than grass food cannot be fed to avoid adding burden to the chinchilla's gastrointestinal tract.

2. Feed auxiliary medicines

Chinchillas will have soft stools and diarrhea after eating vegetable leaves by mistake. It can be appropriately combined with some common auxiliary drugs, such as Mommy Love, Lactase, Help You Zhuang, etc. to promote intestinal peristalsis and help chinchillas excrete. Take a small amount of auxiliary drug powder, mix it into water at a ratio of one to ten, and then feed it all at once, 1 to 2 times a day. For chinchillas that love to drink water, they can also mix it in drinking water bottles, but be sure to change and clean it 24 hours a day, because water with such auxiliary drugs will deteriorate faster. It should be noted that cocoa powder cannot be included in the ingredients of auxiliary medicines, because cocoa powder is harmful to rodents such as chinchillas.

3. Feed grass powder

Grass powder is a refined version of grass food. It has high fiber content and can promote gastrointestinal motility and maintain normal gastrointestinal function. Normal feeding of grass meal needs to be mixed with drinking water, which can not only help the chinchilla balance its body fluids, but also achieve the effect of replenishing water.

4. Send to a doctor

If the first three steps continue for 1 to 2 days and there is no improvement and worsening, you need to be prepared for the condition to worsen. If the deterioration speed becomes faster, the chinchilla needs to be sent to the pet hospital immediately for testing and targeted treatment.