*GRAPHIC* Necropsy photo, sudden death of year old Pixie female, Causes?
Complete devastation came over me when I found my little sweet not moving in her "bath". She had been in there for 24 hours, moving around fine, but had been in one position for a while and something made me touch her on the head gently to say hi. (otherwise never handled). Well, she didn't move.....Oh no......I got the long tongs....and pushed her a bit and nothing, she was stiff. Only just over 6 weeks of ownership.....words cannot describe the feeling of failure.
I got her around Christmas time, was told she was a male, but there was no way based on size, she did have male coloration though.
All that aside, she was fed a diet of mice in her last home. I put her on a diet of crix, hornworms, a few supers (like 3 in a month) and a few butters and night crawlers. Everything I read was to not feed them mice so I didn't. But was the damage already done?
From the ( amateur) necropsy photo, fatty liver? Would that cause sudden death without warning. She was pooping well and eating well up till yesterday when she did not want dinner. Lots of gas in her intestine (huge bubble that we had to burst) and maybe an inch and a half of "poop" but I would not say she was impacted. The gas could have been from sitting for a while after she passed on. Oh and she was on cocoa fiber and there was no evidence that any was in her bowel at the time of death.
Thanks all for reading and learning with me.
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