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This is Mips! He's 8 years old this year, and starting to grow distinguished white whiskers. He likes scritches on the top of his head and along the back of his neck, but never on his butt!

Hi, I'm looking to commission a fleece cover for a single-story FN. I'd like the fleece to go over the top, the two sides, and the back, with possibly some allowance for tucking in the back. I'm hoping this will reduce Mips' spray radius for poop and hay (he really likes to let go when he's...

Hello! We are looking to relocate from a ground-story house to an apartment-styled condominium unit at the end of the summer. Mips has fleece covers in his Ferret Nation, and I've been shaking them out once a week in our backyard--but being that we'll be on the top story of a building, I'm...

I recently bought a sizeable box of cottonwood chew chunks and Mips has been more or less uninterested in anything over the size of a super teensy twig :( He's still working on the last of his apple chunks (which is from the same vendor and he looooves his applewood), is there a chance that he...

Hi! I've read about people's chins enjoying the Ware Deluxe Pop-up playpen (http://www.amazon.com/Ware-Manufacturing-Deluxe-Playpen-Large/dp/B001ATBR5C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392661940&sr=8-1&keywords=ware+pop+up+playpen) I'm considering buying one and I have two questions for those of you who...

While at Petsmart for timothy hay and pellets, I thought I'd try one of the other Oxbow hays that were available, since I recall reading about some owners switching it up for their chins. Thought I was grabbing Orchard hay, it turned out to be "Botanical Hay," which turned out to be a mix of...

So Mips seems to go through phases where he's just not interested in playtime--a couple days a week, he'll only hop out, run around the room a couple of times, sometimes popcorn, and go right back into his cage. Sometimes he doesn't come out at all, but there are also days where he seems super...

I have a male chin who's just turned one in august, and from the posts that crop up from time to time here, I've been steeling myself for when he turns into a hump monster. However, while there are days where he's been bratty and teenage-y, he's never tried to hump my hand or his snuggle whale...

Mips loves loofah and will come running at the sound of me ripping off little bits--it's been really nice as a training aid--if he hops onto my lap, he gets a little chunk as a treat. I've been careful not to give him too much--he gets in aggregate what would be about a square inch of loofah...

So Mips has started to nibble gently along my hand if I reach in to scritch him, and I'm pretty sure it's grooming. However, occasionally he'll find a spot and put down extra pressure--it's not a mean chomp or panicked biting, he starts it like any other gentle nibble but he'll end it with what...

We just moved Mips into the basement last night because it's starting to get warm here in the midwest, last summer (before we got Mips) there were a number of blackouts in our city because everyone was running their AC, so I don't really want to run into a situation where I get home from work...

Today I walked into the chin room to find a suspicious lump under the fleece liner in Mips' cage--he's apparently decided to burrow under for a snooze. While it's adorable as heck (I lifted the fleece and he peeked at me all bleary-eyed and crinkle-eared) and I don't mind straightening the...

I found a chinchilla sound library app in the google store and played the "happy" sound for my guy--he perked his ears immediately, but now he's hiding in his tube and ignoring me when I call him, haha! My hypothesis is that it was actually some sort of offensive chinchilla joke and he'll be...

After reading about people who've trained their chins to return to their cage at the sound of an alarm or a voice command, I've started setting an alarm to let Mips know it's the end of his 20 minutes, after it goes off I put out his dust bath/chin capture device. However, my husband pointed out...

So my chin is about 4 months old, and he has an entire two-level FN all to his spoiled self, two hammocks, and a few hanging mixed wood coin/hay/shredder chew toys I purchased from some of the lovely forum vendors here. However, I still often go in the room just to see him sitting and staring...

I've agreed to chinsit my coworker's chin in my house for a week while he's out of town for the holidays. Although I'm pretty excited to have another little fuzzbutt in my house, I'm a tad worried that since they're both males (4 months) they'll start getting territorial at each others' smell...

So a big chunk of today was spent making up some extra liners and new hammocks for Mips; by the end I had a bunch of scraps and I figured I'd try making him a little fleece friend: (ahem, it's a whale... I've never made anything except big rectangular liners before...) By the time I finished...

It is with much envy that I watch internet videos of Chins blissfully enjoying their scritches--I've had my chin Mips for about 2 months now, and while he seems very comfortable with me, he doesn't seem to care much for scritches... am I doing this wrong or are there other chins out there that...

Chin vision--how good is it really? When Mips is out for his nightly 10-minute playtime, I've noticed that he becomes nervous and still from movements (even little ones like turning my head) that I may make from across the room, but seems more comfortable with my movements when I'm close to him...

So I've been reading quite a few accounts of chins turning from sweet babies to surly teenagers--when exactly does this start to happen? Yesterday when I got home, I noticed that Mips (10 weeks old) was, ahem, having a private moment, and this morning he seemed to be less interested in hanging...