Benton, my 3.5 year old non-release female grey, really suddenly (as in overnight) stopped being able to feed herself and became aggressive and twitchy. From what I can tell, even though she can still chew and swallow without difficulty, she can't hold her food up while she chews. Her front paws come up close to her mouth, but no longer actually make contact with the food while she's eating. It's like she lost control of her fine motor skills, but she's still able to climb around her cage. She's also suddenly become aggressive with me, trying to bite me and my clothing when up until now she's been so good with me that I could take food away from her (even out of her mouth) and all she would do was squeak in protest. I've removed the food from her cage because she shoves it behind her incisors and tries to eat with just her molars, which isn't very effective, and today it made a big wad of gummed up rodent block that got stuck in her mouth and I worried she might choke on some of it. I've been hand and syringe feeding her instead.
Her diet has always been rodent blocks and veggies with fruit and nuts as treats, she doesn't come in contact with other animals so she couldn't have caught anything from them, and she has no visible injuries or any of the stiffness that might indicate tetanus. She came to us as a neuro case from a rehabilitator we work with (we're not sure if she was born that way or if she fell and injured herself) but her only issues other than some body spasms in the first month or so we had her were sub-par balance and possible blindness in one eye (she walks around with her head tilted and doesn't seem to register movement on one side). Change in location/smells/sights has never bothered her in the past, so I don't think it's an environmental problem either. Any thoughts or tips would be welcome, she's very dear to us and we hate to see her in distress!

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