Naked Lily Devours Tissue
December 16, 2010 by hrform3
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Lily shreds and pouches a square of tissue. Notice her cheek pouches going from nearly empty to nearly bursting by the end. A note on Lily’s condition. She has alopecia, but neither I nor my vet understand what’s causing it. There’s no skin irritation, no parasites (my vet even did a skin scraping and put it under the microscope) and her health and personality are otherwise normal. (Great, actually. Lily is a treasure) Her diet and environment are as good as I know how to provide, and I’ve been keeping Robos for years. Whatever it is, it’s not anything as simple as a vitamin deficiency or a dirty cage. She’ll start to get some hair regrowth, but then her skin gets oily and her hair falls out. And the patch gets larger each round. One of these days I may end up with a completely hairless hamster. If anyone has insight into what’s happening to her, I’d love to learn about it. But for the most part I’ve stopped trying to figure it out, since it doesn’t seem to be harming her. (other than turning her into a bit of an ugly duckling) I just make sure she never gets cold, and keep her well-stocked with nesting tissue.
Lily is AH-Dorable!
@MapleShift12 Lily doesn’t have tumors. She’s balding, but she’s otherwise very healthy and active. Plus her condition actually makes her the easiest hamster I’ve ever had to check for tumors.
A large percentage of robos do get some noticable tumors when they get old. But not very many (at least among mine) get life-threatening tumors or get them before about 20 months or so. Poor Sweet Pea had bad luck.
Is the persent high for a robo hamster to get tumors?
OMG!! What happened to her??
@emyrik It’s not a good idea to treat what you can’t identify.
My vet had various remedies she could have prescribed, but she had ruled out the conditions they were for. Rubbing medication on Lily would make her unhappy, and might even make her sick, and there was no reason to believe it would help.
She’s 22 months old now. I want to do right by her as she heads into old age, and happy > pretty in my book.
She needs help for alopecia! Your vet shoul give you cream ad hoc. I used pevaril, but I’m in italy and I dont know if the name is the same in other country. I hope you sweet baby goes well quickly.
what happend to her?
omg my new hamster is named Lilly!
I stil think she’s as cute as ever!
Hammys are lovely animals!
aww, Lilly girl. I am preying that this will not happen to ginger. She gets oily and is balding more. :’( Doesn’t effect her in anyway. Lilly is so cute shoving all the tissue in her mouth
@dehoot The balding is unusual. I’ve never seen it or heard of it, and I’ve had quite a few robos. I did have one other that had Cushing’s Syndrome, but the hair loss and symptoms were very different.
My vet was also stumped. And couldn’t offer me much except that Lily is in very good health otherwise.
And yes, the tissue is for her nest. Lily maintains a large pile that she sleeps in.
omg I’ve never seen that before (alopecia, not the devouring of tissue). It’s so sad to see them like this. She’s so cute and seems as lively as ever though, thankfully. & please tell me she used the tissue to go and make a nest, right? Hahaha, just to make sure. XD