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As some of you may know my chin Silver had his hind leg amputated two weeks ago today, he has apparently been doing really well and eating, pooping and hopping around but today I heard from his new owner that he has developed a few yellowish blister type lumps on his neck. Is it possible that...

Have not posted here for ages since all has been well with my chins.... However I am back home in Australia and my partner is in Sweden, he today transported the chins to their new home but when he arrived my darling Silver was not putting weight on his back leg... They rushed him to the vet who...

I noticed today during playtime that Baby Dragon was making a slight wheezing noise. Well, it's not really a wheeze but a bit of a whistle, like the sound you make when you breathe in with a partially blocked nose. I held him close and listened and didn't hear much, but then he started again...

I only realised today just how dedicated I am to these little critters, I sat down with my boyfriend to go over our job options and finances here vs back home in Australia to make a choice about where we should spend the next few years and the chins played a HUGE part in it, I simply could not...

I've been doing a bit of research looking for care information for degus and there is not a whole lot out there.....I was wondering if any members had experience with them? There is a pair of one year old boys up for adoption a few hours away from me that I was looking into, but wanted to get...

So I've been living in Sweden for six months now and I've gone completley stir crazy. I go to language school for 15 hours a week and volunteer at a horse stable 12 hours a week but apart from that I'm struggling to find things to do. It's hard since my boyfriend works from 7am to 8pm most...

I'm hoping somebody could give me some insight into what is going in in my chin Silver's head.....Every day he and his cage buddy get playtime while I clean their cage and tidy up their fleece liners, afterwards they get put back and sit there and watch me while I clean out Sid's cage and give...

I had a bit of a sleep in this morning so the chins got their morning hay a bit later than usual and they were NOT impressed. The Silver Chin-Impersonating Yoda Baby Dragon-For some reason, this shot reminds me of a balding old man Meester Sid-Not his most flattering angle, I will admit...

Just wondering what the reasons were behing chins releasing from their scent gland? I've read that they do it when they are scared or angry, but would there be any other reasons why? The last three days during playtime Sid has been doing it, he gets more affectionate and outgoing by the day so I...

Yikes, there has been a big delay in my order of chin pellets and they most likley won't be here for another five days and I only have one days worth of pellets left. What would be the best thing to do? They have unlimited high quality hay and I also have rosehips, lifeline and a few other...

So this is a bit of a strange one; My newest chin Sid (we got him before Christmas) is a real sweetheart, he adores scratches on the chest and neck area but gets upset and makes an angry noise if you touch his back. Anyway, about two weeks ago he escaped from his cage and I panicked since the...

For playtime tonight I noticed that Silver and Dragon were not as excited as usual to come out of their cage and seemed a bit lethargic, I took them out anyway and they hopped around for a few seconds and then both started trying to bite at their water bottle from the outside of their cage, I...

There might have been a thread like this a while ago but it seems that people are always getting new chins, so I was curious as to when people find that they wake up/go to sleep? My three boys fit in perfectly with my life, every weekday I am up at 6am for classes or work and everybody is awake...

Does anybody have any chinny puberty horror stories? These past few weeks Dragon´s hormones are kicking in and he´s gone from being fairly nervous and skittish to an outright turd, he scratches frantically at the door to be let out and every time I open it he leaps straight at my chest, his cage...

Wondering if anyone did anything special? We stayed home and had dinner with friends so they got to meet some new people during playtime and everyone got a rosehip around midnight and a kiss on the head. I was really surprised that there was no barking because we let off fireworks too and it was...

I´ve been weighing my chins weekly, Silver hovers between 605g and 618g whilst Dragon (8 months old) Is around 550g at the moment but steadily gains a gram or so a week. I weighed my new chin Sid for the first time today and was incredibly shocked, he looks so much smaller compared to Silver...

Sid is settling in wonderfully,we had our first playtime tonight and he ran all about the room, when we tap our hand on the floor he runs over for scratches and he climbed up onto my boyfriend´s head to get a bird´s eye view. He seems way more keen on human contact than Silver and Dragon, they...

I finally got around to making my chin cookies, they are so cute I can´t bring myself to eat them ;)

Today was a big day for the animals in our household! My hamster babies are old enough to handle now so everybody got a short taming session and we moved all the hams into an upstairs bedroom with some new shelving so there are no longer 11 hamsters crammed onto the kitchen table ;) Also...

I was browsing the online sales for chins and found a listing for a chin I saw for sale about three months ago and just assumes had already been sold, he is a black two year old little boy and the cutest little thing ever! Anyway, I noticed yesterday that he has been relisted by the original...