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We ran out of chinchilla sand and I have been to two pet shops today but strangely both were sold out, and my chins really needed a sand bath. My boyfriend had the idea of going to a reptile shop across the road... he's bought a bag of greyish coloured reptile sand, it looks to be a similar...

About 4 days ago my partner accidentally stood on the back leg of our chinchilla Gus while he was out for play time. He took Gus down to the vet, and the leg isn't broken, but the vet was worried it may become infected (although there was no open cut at that point) so he's given us some Medical...

I have a chin who I think is going through puberty at the minute. He's recently started biting me when I put my hand into the cage. He was never the friendliest chin (generally prefers doing his own thing than being held) but now I am getting scared to pick him up because whenever I do he gets...

I have two male chins that have been living together for around 4 months. They're both pretty young (less than a year), and it all seemed to be going great until a couple of weeks ago. It seems like Jerry has started bullying Gus - for example if I put a new gnaw block in the cage and Gus...

I have a male chin who is about 6/7 months old. When I got home today I noticed that he had a pinky-red mark on the fur on his face, and his eye was a little red around the outside. I couldn't see any cuts or anything, and since he is white I think the blood would have stained a lot more if he...

I took my 2 chins to the vet today as they have both been having a bit of diarrhoea recently. This is what he said to me: - Do not keep them in the living room because the noise is too stressful for them (even though we're only in there about 2 hours a day and the tv is not loud). The stress...

I don't usually have to worry about my chins overheating, as most of the time it's pretty cool where I live (Northern UK). But recently the weather has been really hot and humid for round here, and while it's cool enough in the house it's absolutely baking outside. I have to take my 2 chins to...

My 4-month old male chin has been having soft poops for about a week now and I don't know whether to be worried. I've tried giving him burnt toast, even took the pellets out of the cage and just gave him hay for 2 days but it didn't seem to make any difference (I also felt mean because his cage...

I got my chin a pal and they've been in the same cage for just over a week now. But since I put the new one in, my old one hasn't been as friendly around me.. he used to come up to me for a stroke under his chin, but now when I put my hand in the cage they both seem to panic and run away from...

2 days ago I got a new chinchilla, Jerry. He's just been weaned from his mum (12 weeks) and we're hoping to get him in a cage with Gus, our 6-month old male. They're completely unrelated, from different breeders and different colours. But Jerry's breeder said that because they were both pretty...

I've just bought some treats for my chin off the internet - dried dandelion leaves and flowers, herbs, rosehips, stuff like that. I don't know how much of these things is okay to give him though... I have heard many people saying to just give a tiny pinch of one of these things a day, at the...

Since I got my chin I've always kept the room he is in at a pretty cool temperature (colder than is really comfortable for me but I know that's how they like it) ...So I don't think this is to do with heat exhaustion, but recently he has been lying on his side quite a lot. Should I be worried...

So I have one of the wire-bottom type chinchilla cages, and I have just been using newspaper underneath as litter, but Gus seems to enjoy chewing at the newspaper. I think he is ingesting it as there are some large sections gone but no signs of shredded up paper around the cage. Is this okay...

Hi! I'm new here, just got my first chinchilla a few days ago - a 5 1/2 month old male. I did lots of research before I got him but there seems to be lots of conflicting advice out there so I thought I'd ask a few questions on here to help clarify things! I gave him raisins a couple of times...