Lost Toys Recovered

Hehe!   The last couple of nights, I hadn't been able to sleep in my room because Abby, my chinchilla kept making squeaking noises that I thought might be distress calls of some sort, but couldn't figure out why.   I checked her water, she had lots, and the bottle was not blocked, water came out the way it should when the tip is touched.   She had lots of food, so that was fine too.   I gave her a treat, and that was accepted with the usual enthusiasm. She licked my hand the way she often does, and came up to it whenever I put it in the cage.   When I managed to catch and hold her, the next thing was a physical examination. Nose and chin, just fine. Ears, cool to the touch, no odd smells etc. So, fine. Fur, just fine, nothing wrong there. Toes, all seemed to be there, I couldn't find anything such as injuries from playing and getting caught in or on anything, which has never happened before anyway.   Plus, she pooped once on me, and that was also normal.   Yet even when I held her, she made these helpless squeaky whimpery sounds at me. They are sort of between a normal contact call and an alarm bark. A bit louder than the normal contact calls, but higher and not as loud as an alarm bark.   So what the heck ! ?   Not being able to do anything, I had to go sleep in the basement and hope she'd be fine in the morning.   And, she was.   There was not a peep out of her all day.   But that night, it started again.   Same thing, and again, I checked everything over, and everything seemed okay.   I just didn't rummage around in the cage bottom, it gets messy with debris being kicked out of the litter boxes, bits of wood, pieces of hay, the odd bit of food, bath sand, etc.   But today I cleaned the cage, and couldn't find any of her toys to remove along with the food dish. Strange, how could they have just disappeared? Especially that thick branch she chews on, it is like a small log.   However, when I removed the litter pans, cleaned them, and went to put them back, I found that all of the chew toys had somehow gotten shoved into the corners of the cage, behind the pans.   Brought them out, made sure they were cleaned off as well.   One toy hadn't even been chewed up much at one end.   Well, now she's got all her toys back in plain view, easily accessible to her, and she has not squeaked since...yet.

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