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So my Chinchilla has started to chew the tip of her tail. How do I get her to stop? She chews that she's making her tail bleed and using the hairs as bristles. I keep coming home to find a new bloody masterpiece on her wood shelf. I rubbed neosporin on it.

Mama Momo produced 2 kits on Monday. I think Momo isn't producing enough milk so the kits are fighting. The older one seems to attack the younger a lot. I started rotating them for 2 hours at a time by placing them in a carrier. Momo actually gets the ability to sleep since they aren't...

My chin recently gave birth to two kits. She seems very loving to both of them. I've found her to sometimes huddle herself in the corner of the cage as if she's denying them milk for a bit to let her sleep. I've been thinking of hand feeding them with goats milk or separating them from the...

Came home tonight after work to find one of my chinchillas dead. I'm at a loss of what I did wrong. She lived in the same cage as her mother and her mother looks fine. Should I clean the cage to clean the smell of her? What can I do for the mother? I've been apologizing everytime I see...

I bought fleece houses from camphorchins.com a while back and was wondering how to clean them. My chins have soiled them quite a bit. Should I hand wash them or throw them in the washer with my linen.

One of my chins has lost a substantial amount of hair on her nose. I first thought she was rubbing it against the cage but I took her to the vet. They said they had to do a $200 culture test, which takes 4 weeks to get any results, and gave me cream to rub on the exposed areas for two weeks...

I have chins that don't get along because of territorial issues. I'm moving soon so my chins will have a new territory. Is it possible to bond the chins since it's new territory? IF so how? I want to mention when I got my second set of chins, they got along with my first chin at the store...

One of my chin looks like she has an eye infection. I have an apt tomorrow afternoon. Is there anything I should do for her until then? SO far I've removed her from her large cage and placed her in a smaller one with less gaps to prevent her from falling. Plus the cage is currently clean and...

My chins chew up their hanging toys but never really chew the entire thing. They just chew the corners and lose interest. I feel like throwing away and buying new ones are such a waste. Is there a safe way I could refurbish their toys to become reinterested?

So I think the reason my mother/daughter duo haven't warmed up to me is because the single chin gets so jealous when I tend to the mom/daughter. When I stick my hand in the mom/daughter cage, the single chin tries to get my attention and sometimes chatters on her teeth, (which I'm told means...

When I take my chins to the vet, they seem so docile when in the car and on the road. I heard some people use this to bond them to each other. What about the drive makes them so calm?

The daughter of my mother/daughter duo plays too rough with her mother sometimes. I sometimes hear the mother yelping after the daughter has pounced on her. Is there something I should do to distract that? The mother is obviously the submissive chin.

One of my paired chins has diarrhea. Do I need to separate the two? Her poop is soft and wet.

My Chins keep tossing their wooden houses over. I always wake up to find it overturned or blocking the entryway between levels. Is there any reason why? I was thinking of getting a fleece house that would attach to the top of the cage. I also find their food bowls tossed over sometimes.

Hi I have 3 chinchillas. I originally wanted one but then I thought she could have a mate but the rescue people said I couldn't mate them, which I wasn't planning on. So I suggested neuter but they said it be too dangerous then I ended up getting a mom/daughter duo because they got pretty well...