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I adopted a puppy on the 15th, from a foster home with forty dogs in it. The lady takes in pregnant dogs and puppies from Help Every Pet, which is a shelter that rescues dogs off the nearby reservation. While she does awesome for her situation, there's no way to care for that many dogs alone...

Being lazy, I forgot to post Leeloo and Ozzy's birthdays! Happy birthday Leeloo, who turned one on the 8th, and Oz, who turned one on the 13th! Leeloo has really blossomed since she got here :) She loves music, and will run to my iPod speaker, then sit in front of it with tiny popcorns. She...

This spring/summer we'll finally be able to afford Caboose's spay surgery to get rid of her uterine infection. It's been kept to a low with Baytril so far, but she can only get more sick from here and I need to stop putting it off because of bad neutering experiences. Every relapse of the...

Caboose has looks to be a patch of ringworm on one lip. I'm assuming it's ringworm at least, there's been a ringworm epidemic around the household. Furless, dry-looking patch of skin. Miette and Leeloo probably have it as well, as they all had a dust bath last night before I noticed the patch. I...

Leeloo is a pink white, so always has some staining of her fur, but yesterday while I was putting them back in their cage after playtime I noticed her bottom is wet and a lot yellower than usual. She is very skittish, do chins wet themselves or anything? She and Miette are both going to the vet...

Well I've recently fallen in love with a dog at my local shelter where I volunteer, Whisper the pit bull/pit bull mix! She's an absolute sweetheart with me, but when I'm not there she growls at men, and cowered whenever I raised my hand the first time I took her out of her kennel. Poor baby...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that there's a chronic version of bumblefoot. Miette turns out to have bumblefoot, and her feet have looked bad since I got her. Put some bag balm on today since it seems to be "flaring"?

I was curious, do shows ever come to Montana? If not, what's the closest area to MT they usually go to?

I'd love to buy more things from everyone on this forum, but you know how it is with money! Is there any advice you guys can give me on making some good toys until I can order some awesome ones? And maybe where to buy supplies? My girls love the finger traps, not sure what else could be fun.

Anyone else think chinchillas can teleport? Go to catch them during playtime... corner them, move in to scoop them up... and they're gone! Mighty suspicious!

Caboose is in desperate need for a cage, as she's currently in a dog crate. She has a wooden second level and everything, but I worry about her getting bored eventually and chewing the plastic. And hard little chin feet on dog crate floors sound like racehorses. We don't have much moolah right...

I realised that I've never posted any pictures of my chins other than a few of Caboose when she was wee. So, here we are! Caboose is my incredibly eccentric pet store standard. She is very rat-faced, but I think it makes her adorable! Not sure how old she is, but she seems to be done growing...

Okay, this is terrible and you guys can berate me all you want, because I deserve it. Yesterday, probably 3ish I had Gizmo the 10-year old bunny in my room, as we currently only have two rooms to our name, sharing a house. My dad wanted to deep clean his other rabbit's cage and let him run...

I don't plan on going to college, so I have to think about what I want to do. I just had a thought... a small animal rescue in Montana! I hate to be stereotypical, but many Montanans do NOT think pocket pets are more than kid toys to have for a week. We're more of a dog state. Any advice? I'd...

I know that when males wag their tails and talk they're flirting, but what does it mean when a female silently wags her tail? My girl Miette does it, usually when she's checking out something outside of the cage, such as being interested in a movie I'm watching.

Well, here I am. Again. With the same chinchilla. My chin vet and I have learned a TON since I first took Caboose to the vet and posted all of my odd stuff on here, so here is the update. She definitely had an open uterine infection in July, that went away for about two months. No idea how she...

Since I've had a sudden change in career interest due to the high possiblity of me having an autoimmune illness such as Multiple Sclerosis and being unable to pull the long hours of a vet, I've decided to make my own profession from a moosh of careers. I'd like to do animal therapy, rehabilitate...

I am going to pick up either 1 to 4 chinchillas (the suspense is killing me) from Christine at Twilight Chinchillas this Saturday, are there any suggestions on how to keep them cool in the car along with AC? The trip is from Billings, MT to Spokane, WA, so obviously it will be pretty toasty and...

My chinchilla Caboose was recently put on Baytril (as you've probably noticed from me practically spamming the forums, this is my only source of other-owner input in MT), the kind that I mix into water and she just drinks, since she is still active. However, over the course of the day she has...

I'll move this from emergency since it's no longer a "I don't know what this is!" type topic. I'll just post how my current chinnie is doing and hope that she's one of the few lucky ones who will not need a full spay! Tried to clean her bottom while burrito-ing her today but failed miserably...