yoshi and her wet tail

last night while i was walking into the bedroom, i happened to notice that yoshi hasn't been moving around for the past several days. when i opened up the lid of where she was positioned, this horrific smell drifted into my nostrils. i was like, damn that's some nasty ass shit (literally).

upon closer inspection, we discovered that she has wet tail. that's not good. basically, yoshi has a severe bouts of diarrhea. it's a pretty serious condition for a hamster. deidra and i were trying to get her some meds, but both petsmart and petco were close. we tried a 24-hour vet, but there was a crazy wait of about 4 hours to see a tech.

we came back home and deidra came up with a great idea of giving her some fruits and vegetables. basically, hamsters don't die because of wet tail, they die because they get dehydrated from wet tail.

luckily, yoshi took some apple bits that i gave to her. and we went to bed hoping that she'll make it through the night.

this morning, i woke up at 9 and went down to petsmart and got some medicine for her. gave it to her in an eye dropper. moved her to the big spinning wheel-cage so she won't get further contamination from the glob of diarrhea that's sitting in her normal cage.

i fed her some water with the eye dropper, but she would only take a little bit of it. she's now resting on some kleenex and has some lettuce leafs next to her. we'll see how well she does tonight. she's pretty fucking resilent for a hamster.

the picture above is of yoshi in her better days.