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Just an update! Snowball is a boy! And not a girl that was told to me when I adopted. I always suspected him to be a boy. Haha and he also got the clean bill of health! Which is a relief! He was super scared at the vet and ended up pooping some soft stools. But now he's back home and after...

Thank you all for the advice!! You are all so wonderful and i'm so thankful to have found this forum!! I will definitely bring along treats for after the vet and put her hay and some pellets for her after the visit. A blanket will be used to cover her carrier so she can't see out. Do i need...

I'm not sure if i should post this here... but i searched in the forum and there wasnt another topic like this yet, so here it goes!! I'm bringing Snowball (my 8 year old female chin) to the vet tomorrow for a general check up as well as i think her eye is irritated from the dust bath. I had...

1. How old is your chin and did you get a single or a couple/few? Snowball is 7 or 8 years old ish 2. Did you get from a breeder or rescue? I adopted her from a friend who couldn't take care of her anymore! =P 3. Do you have other animals? my sister used to have fish and hamsters in the house...

Ah, that makes sense. Thank you! It rarely gets over 25 in the lower part of my house where I keep the chinchilla. If it does get hotter, i'm going to buy a portable AC and put it where she's at =)

They look beautiful!! Congratulations :)

Its almost summer and I've been wanting to get some tiles for my chinchilla. I live in Vancouver so summer doesn't get too hot and the chinchilla cage is where the temperature is pretty much 3-4 degrees lower than the temperature outside I was looking into buying marble and/or granite tiles...

First off, congratulations on your new chins!! :) Don't worry, I have a paranoia about my chin being sick too. My chin that i got a few weeks ago is also the first real pet I've gotten. I'm always scared of her getting sick or injuring herself or always think of all these things that may...

I know my chinchilla sneezes a bit after she comes out of a dust bath. I read somewhere on this forum that some chins do sneeze after a dust bath as well. I wouldn't be too worried unless his nose is wet or there are other indications. Try giving him the dust bath out side of his cage, that way...

So I recently changed my chin's fleece and realized that it wasnt as absorbent as the one i bought for her from ferret nation. The pee kind of just lingers there until it soaks in (I do have a pan for her to pee in and she usually pees in that, but she just likes to pee in every corner once i...

I found that my chinchilla (8 y.o) is having some sticky urine too. Almost all of the time her urine just slightly stains the fleece I have covering her pans. But there would be some tiny spots where it would be a tiny bit sticky when dried. I wonder if this is because the fleece isnt soaking up...

Thank you for the welcomes =) Hi Daniela! i'm from Vancouver area!

I've actually posted a few times already and got wonderful advice from the members here but havent properly introduced myself Hi! I am mscreampoof (weird name i know, but it's been my login for so many things since forever) I recently adopted a chinchilla from my friend and she's about 7-8...

Ah, stress might cause the poo to be irregular as well. That might be it since I just got her last week and i'm still letting her get used to her new cage before I let her out for play time in another week or so. Thanks!

Thanks for the advice I actually didn't notice if she was getting bigger but my sister who lives with me said that she may have been gaining weight but I personally didn't notice much I noticed today though that a few poops have been sticking to her but after I gave her a dust bath, it was all...

Slight update: Actually last night I saw her popcorning around the cage. So I assume she's happy and joyful. If a Chin is sick then she wouldn't be doing that. Right? She still poops around the same amount as she did before. I hope I'm not spamming and hope this gets approved before someone...

I got my chin about a week ago and realized that she may be either 1) gaining weight or 2) bloating I didn't realize that when I wanted to change her pellets, i can't suddenly do it. When i realized, it was already 2 days since i swapped her pellets but i quickly gave her some of her old...

I have a CN cage, and yeah it does make cleaning a lot easier She let me pet her for the first time today (less than a week after i got her) so i thought we were making progress, but then when i came home today and went to her cage, she kind of just sat there so i put my hand in and she made a...

I was sitting with my chinchilla watching her jump around in the cage then i took some hay and started feeding it through the bars. After she finished the few strands i gave her, she went to her hay carrier and ate more. After she jumped back to where I fed her hay through the wires and started...

I was on petinsurance.com website too and they only cover in america. at the very bottom of the page, they refer you to another website for Canada but they only cover cats and dogs. I emailed the regional manager asking if they cover exotic pets like chinchillas and hope to get a positive reply...