Poorly Robo *THE DANGERS OF FLUFFY BEDDING* - Page 2

**Pompompoms** · 01-16-2010, 06:06 PM

A full recovery!

Well it took a little while, and I didn't think he was going to make it, but Jam pulled through.

After my last post he got even worse for a couple of days and lost yet more weight, going down to 15g. He was like a tiny skeleton, you could see all his bones, and he was so weak he was just in bed all the time.
I kept him, with me all day and checked on him once and hour, then had him in my room at night checking on him every two hours and giving him water from my finger and a little mushed up food to keep him going.

He absolutely detested taking the medicine, after a good start with the syringe, it clearly became the enemy, and he would fight with his little hands to get it away from him which would stress him even more. He had to have it three times a day, and he started stress scratching under his chin where he'd get a bit wet from it, so he also developed sores and lost all his hair.
So I took my 15g skeletal hamster with no chin hair to the vet and he just about managed to get out of his nest to try and avoid her. I was almost in tears as I thought she was going to say that was it for him.

As I said before he'd had a very dirty bum while all this was going on, the vet popped him on his back, and pulled out (and this is no exaggeration) an inch and three quater long, and cm wide poo. It was full of cotton wool, you could see all the fibers making it up and sticking up out of it. I actually couldn't believe it, no wonder he was so ill!!!!!!!! He'd been trying to pass that for three days!
That was the real turning point, there were a couple of very large but not as bit ones also stuffed with bedding, then things started to settle down. By the time we went back to the vet again on the Monday she felt his tummy and said all the lumps were gone.

The change in him was as dramatic on the way up as it had been on the way down, he was wheeling away again, and I was packing him full of protein to bulid up his strength.
Looking and him now (he's sat on my lap having a stroke) he's put on all the weight again, his hair has all grown back, and he looks super shiney and healthy.
It was a close one, but thanks to the info on here, and the help of the vet, he pulled through!!

As I said earlier Pets at home are paying his vet bill and wrote to the manufacturer. I have had a letter from the manufacturer of the bedding myself, saying that they think it was just one of those things, and that they sell so much of the bedding without problems. I will be writing back to them to ask them to reconsider the labelling on the product as soon as I have the vets report.

**Pompompoms** · 01-16-2010, 06:10 PM

Here's a pic of him fully recovered!

oranges123 · 11-16-2015, 06:34 PM

My hamster past away and we dont know what happened she was fine eating drinking and then she died anybody know what happend

Flissy · 01-17-2010, 09:35 AM

Aww I'm so glad he's better now! But that was a close one, I really hope pets at home does stop selling that bedding, is it even suitable for any animals? Its horrible stuff

annie81 · 01-17-2010, 10:18 AM

thank god he pulled through. i am so happy for you. i dont think that the company is doing something about the bedding though

Sammybingo · 01-27-2010, 05:10 PM

aw after reading all this, I want to change my hammy of the month vote!

So glad it ended well. That must have been awfully scary

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And yes, I removed all the fluffy stuffs from Chewbaccas house this week (I had three types - Rotostak, P@H and a purpley coloured one). He is now on toilet roll. He has no idea what to do with it, he is using it like a blanket! I might have to shred more for him hehe.

souffle · 01-28-2010, 03:33 AM

I am so glad to hear that he is recovered and your perseverance saved him. He looks fabulous too.
If you don't mind I will cross post what happened to other forums where people insist the bedding is safe.
Bless him the little man. What a traumatic ordeal. And your vet sounds like a star too

**Pompompoms** · 01-28-2010, 05:23 PM

PLease do, the more people that know about this the better, it was awful to watch him go through it, and I'd hate to think of anyone else's hamster going through it, and even worse without the happy ending.

The vet was fantastic, we were in four times in a week, as she wanted him in every other day. I didn't see any other animals smaller than a rabbit there when I was in, so I don't think they get too many tiny hammies like Jam. She did every single thing she could to help him pull through, I am so grateful!

**Pompompoms** · 01-26-2012, 05:57 PM

Oh my poor little Jam's horrible ordeal has been stickied! Or have I just failed to notice this forever? Good, hopefully it will help save a few tiny little fluffies the same awful experience, or even worse.

**kyrilliondaemon** · 01-26-2012, 06:26 PM

I saw the link to this recently - its definetly the best way to tell people about the fluffy bedding, so well worth being stickied as far as I'm concerned

It got us to cut the fluffy bit off a hammock since a certain daft ham kept showing more interest in it than was good... And I'm considering taking it off the other hammocks (currently untouched and belonging to other hams), so Jam has had an effect really recently

As I've said, its a really effective way of making people aware of the risks. Until I saw this I accepted the risks but was never really sure because the way it had been presented seemed to be a bit hyped up in most cases. Now I really get it and have a lot more understanding of it all, so thanks to you for writing what you did, and to Souffle who linked this for someone recently. I am glad Jam recovered from this in the end