Hello-<BR>OK, I got a new baby joey last Saturday and everything was going fine until Thursday night. I was a bit worried about her being too young and too friendly with my older one, but they seemed to be getting along great- the little one adopted the bigger as her mom. The older was cleaning her, keeping her warm, everything- she accepted the new one without a problem.<P>She was so cool- she got along with all of us immediately. We fell in love with her in the first 2 minutes. I even feel she
bonded with me by the second day- she wanted to be with me all the time. She even climbed off the back of her new 'mom' to climb onto my hand, scramble up to my neck, and cling on there.<P>Thursday night my wife noticed that she wasn't opening her left eye fully. She seemed tired, but she was finally eating more than just apples (she had a little leadbeaters and even a baby cricket) and sunflower seeds. Friday night we went out after work and came back real late expecting to play with the girls...but the little one was sound asleep on the floor of the cage. This looked weird, but she seemed OK, if tired. On Saturday I tried feeding her, but all she would drink was milk and leadbeaters mixed together. I didn't know what was wrong, so I thought that we'd watch her for another night, then go see a
vet on Sunday or Monday. Sunday morning I tried to wake her, but wasn't successful. I mixed a few things together and put them into a clean eye-dropper and force-fed her. After a few hours she seemed a little better, but we made an appointment to see the
breeder and his
vet on Monday. She also seemed to be too hot- she wouldn't sleep in my shirt in her cage, she kept crawling out to sleep in the open. I took her out a few hours later to feed her another eye-dropper full of food, but her breathing was real shallow. About 15 minutes later she died in my hands.<P>She was the coolest pet I'd ever had! She was so loving to us from the very start. I worried that she was too young, but I thought I was keeping a close eye on her. The
breeder took her body to his
vet and they are going to try and find out what happened. He's going to reserve another girl for us (he says another female has two tiny babies, so we'll see if one's a girl). But we really loved that little one! We had even named her on Friday- Nina. <P>We don't know what happened. We can't help but feel guilty, and I probably did make the wrong decision to wait an extra day. The only thing I can think that might have happened is that she got too cold (there is a freezing snap on this week, but I turned up the heater) or that she might have fallen and hit her head on the mini-cage that I put inside the larger one (it is possible that she could have fallen a total of 5 feet and hit the edge with her head- I have a large cage). If I hadn't put that mini-cage in there, she would have fallen on the bedding and been fine. Maybe she just got her
diet out of whack and slowly got too weak because she refused to eat anything but apples and sunflower seeds. <P>I don't know what happened. I threw caution to the wind when I got her so young (2 months OOP), but because everything just kept going smoothly, I didn't worry. Then it was too late. <P>Anyway, sad story I thought I'd share. Anyone else every experience something like this?<P>Take care-<BR>-Tcat<P><BR>