Skalar
09-18-2011, 03:53 PM
I'm kinda' perplexed, so I'm asking what you guys think.
For a while now I've noticed that the 2 boys (chipper and squeaky) were losing their whiskers. It wasn't a slow thing at all, just one day I noticed they didn't have their whiskers, but pinky had hers (she still has hers).
I thought it might be something in their diet although I am feeding them properly. Then thought it might be perhaps due to the galvanic reaction with the cage, or something else I don't know about.
But then I saw it.
The other night, Pinky bit chipper on the face pretty hard. They had a pretty bad fight in the nest and he flies out, with his face bleeding from a bite mark on his face, as well as his cheek swollen, where pinky was chewing on the side of his face where his whiskers were.
He didn't want me to touch the side of his face, and avoided me. Then I gave him an almond, in which he became oblivious to the world and I scooped him up and took this photo.
http://gallery.skalar.org/var/resizes/Animals/squirrels/IMG_1382.JPG?m=1316144358
you can see the bite and the sore spot on his cheek and utter lack of whiskers.
I don't know what to make of this, has anybody had squirrel chew the whiskers off of another squirrel?
For a while now I've noticed that the 2 boys (chipper and squeaky) were losing their whiskers. It wasn't a slow thing at all, just one day I noticed they didn't have their whiskers, but pinky had hers (she still has hers).
I thought it might be something in their diet although I am feeding them properly. Then thought it might be perhaps due to the galvanic reaction with the cage, or something else I don't know about.
But then I saw it.
The other night, Pinky bit chipper on the face pretty hard. They had a pretty bad fight in the nest and he flies out, with his face bleeding from a bite mark on his face, as well as his cheek swollen, where pinky was chewing on the side of his face where his whiskers were.
He didn't want me to touch the side of his face, and avoided me. Then I gave him an almond, in which he became oblivious to the world and I scooped him up and took this photo.
http://gallery.skalar.org/var/resizes/Animals/squirrels/IMG_1382.JPG?m=1316144358
you can see the bite and the sore spot on his cheek and utter lack of whiskers.
I don't know what to make of this, has anybody had squirrel chew the whiskers off of another squirrel?