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xiao ai

after a few days of observations, i am quite sure xiao ai has diabetes & i don't know what to do.. the following are some of the symptoms i observed & identified:

1)xiao ai is drinking a lot more water than she did in the past (i read in a book, it stated that it's one of the symptoms of diabetes)

2) xiao ai loves sweet food, like bread, buns, apples, cakes, biscuits, & lately, she drinks her owm pee (she doesn't do that in the past)

3) sometimes there are ants and flies around her basket

4) she pee very often, even more frequent than human beings (which is seriously abnormal cause hamsters can pee once a few days, they can condense their pee, but apparently, she has lost that ability, due to some unknown reasons, one of which i suspect's dun to her old age)

i am really worried, want to buy her some medicine for her diabetes, but i don't know if it is available in the market.. it'll be really expensive to visit the vet for the medicine.. because my instinct told me that the vet we went the previous time does not know much about hamsters.. & i think by the time i find a time to bring xiao ai to vet, most probably she's in a coffin already (i am booked this weekend, have something urgent to attend to, can't bring her to vet)

so worried she'll drink her own pee now when she's alone at home & no one's there to look after her..

my poor xiao ai..

posted by +abrac[A]dabra+ @ 10:12