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Usually they don't go off veggies but pellets is understandable. They are hard to chew and ear infections can cause pain down into the jaw. Try soaking the pellets in water or plain fruit juice (no sugar, sucrose, fructose, etc.. just juice and possibly vitamins on the ingredients)to soften them and if you can find an uncontaminated spot some fresh grass. Even when they won't eat veggies they often eat grass. Sometimes just feeling miserable will make them unwilling to eat much. Hay will not provide vit c and neither hay nor veggies provide EFAs (essential fatty acids) or much vit E which is needed to properly use many sources of EFAs. They don't need large or constant amounts of these unlike vit c but they do need them and pellets are the best source so several weeks without pellets may start to cause a decline in those nutrients. If he continues not to eat either veggies or pellets I would go back to critical care but you probably don't have to syringe feed it. Just provide it in a small dish or off a spoon. Again fruit juice can take the place of water to provide more flavor and entice him to start eating on his own again.