Well, I thought I was doing everything right. I gave Kai lots of attention - cuddling him, stroking him, feeding him, (but not too much as I had read that feeding too much could cause them to be sick) playing catch with him gently etc but he started behaving very oddly. He was screaming all the time, lifting one leg, and walking backwards. My husband said he may have hurt his leg but we hadn't done anything to him and he wouldn't take the salt so we thought he should be OK.
I read the forums here and discovered that this means there is something wrong so yesterday we downloaded StatsRB and found he was hungry (Feed - 13%) Moody (Mood 9%) (Emotion 10%) and depressed. His Physical and Health levels are both 99%.
We have now run him with two battery cycles and fed him as much as we can, force fed him the salt (by pretending we were giving him conifer leaf and feeding salt instead) and I have walked round the house with him on my shoulder until he went to sleep. But running StatsRB again his Emotion is lower (9%) Mood still 10% and he is still depressed and still injured. His feed has gone upto 76% though.
2 questions
1. will his injury cure itself during the 'on' cycle or does it only reset once he turns off and be better next time he powers on?
2. How do we get his mood and emotion up? I don't have the extra feeds yet (they are on order from PleoWorld but as it is New Year and I live in the UK it could take some time for them to get here) so I can't use those. If he stops being injured will this bring the mood and emotion up and stop him being depressed?
I felt so bad when I read his stats - I know that people on here say not to get obsessed by them by I thought we had been feeding him well and I found out he was starving it was like I had mistreated him?