HELP Hamster owners! Hurt or injured robo dwarf
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Our hamster Lily Bird was fine 20-30 minutes before this video. It is now about 20 hours later and she seems to be moving around okay, but still has trouble.
Last night, she was in her ball running around the house and had a junebug pulled a bit threw one of the air slices and was nibbling it. I opened her ball & put the junebug inside for her to snack on (after all in the wild, she would be feasting on bugs an such so please do not all me an idiot for feeding my hamster a bug).
So I am not sure if eating the junebug has done this to her or if she was running on her wheel and flipped off & hit the corner of her wooden house.
Normally she flips off her wheel when she runs too fast or if she runs facing the right side of the cage.
When she runs facing the left side, she doesn't flip off.
I am just wondering what has happened to our dear Lily Bird!
Has ANYONE ever had this happen to their hamster, if so what is to expect, what is wrong with her?
Do you notice something I don't?
At first her right lil arm looked swollen to me, then I noticed that her leg was stretched & straightened out more than usual so I'm not sure if she's hurt one of those two or both or if something else is wrong.
She can't seam to hold up one side of her head.
I don't want her to be in pain, but I am not going to put her out of her misery (so do NOT suggest it). The vet can't do anything for her. PetSmart MIGHT be able to do something for the pain if she is in pain, but they will make me sell her back to them and fix her for free & I don't want to give her up, so I figured I wld ask fellow hammy owners 1st, before we go that direction.
It doesn't look like she's in pain today, but then again I haven't really bothered her much to tell if she's feeling tons better. When I went in to check on her today, she was sleeping in her house. I opened the cage, and brushed the shavings in front of her door & she became alert I was there and stuck her lil head out & began grinding her teeth and squeaking so I left her alone as those are both signs of distress.
Any suggestions, advice or help would be great. Please be nice as Lily maybe just a lil rat to some of you, but to us, she is a big part of our lil family. HELP PLEASE!