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I would never have willingly let him run around the kitchen. He wasn't supposed to be able to get to the kitchen.

Last night I let myself be distracted by a video for 6 minutes while I let my chinchilla play in his seemingly chin proofed room. When I looked up I didn't see him anywhere. He had managed to move the barrier to the kitchen enough to squeeze through. It took me another couple minutes to figure...

I often refer to Meucci as squirrel when he's being particularly silly, stubborn or I just feel like saying it.

I'll try to get the boyfriend over for playtime more and see if changing his deodorant/soap or something helps. Thanks :)

Looks like there have been a lot of posts about chin teens lately. I should point out that Meucci is about a year old now and might be in the midst of teenagedom. Perhaps he will grow out of it then. Is there anything I can do to facilitate the bonding of my teenage prey animal and new...

My male chinchilla(Meucci) is remarkably sweet to me and shy yet sweet to most everyone else with the exception of my boyfriend. I thought perhaps Meucci was jealous of the attention I give to my boyfriend, but I give a lot of attention to anyone I have have over. Is he trying to be dominant...

Oh my goodness, I didn't realize how large those images are ><

Thanks :) easy enough

1. The previous owner says Meucci is about 2 years old. He is my only chin 2. Craigslist >< I had been looking into chinchillas and resisting for quite some time, but then a gentlemen 5 minutes away from me decided he no longer had time for his chinchilla and the timing was right on my end. 3...

I've set up a secured are around meucci's cage and and it's been pretty easy to encourage him back in after half an hour to an hour. I still take him into the bathroom that I modified for him to be able to play in sometimes and have to catch him. I wish I knew how stressful being caught is to...

I've taken to place some asian style folding room dividers with heavy object on either side to block off a hallway and kitchen

I've never really interacted with a chinchilla before so I don't know if this is normal or what to do about it, or even if I should do anything. Have any of you experienced this?

Every once in a while Meucci (a male) will climb onto my knee and and aggressively nip and sometimes scratch at it while making a rapid chirp-like squeaking sound. Thinking it might be a dominance behavior I've taken to placing my over his back and gently grabbing at his eats and scruffing him...

Oh goodness, I didn't think this got posted. after i didn't see it for a couple of days i thought the content kept it from getting posted. I did manage to do a check and sure enough he had a hair ring that I image has been there for quite some time. I removed it and as much as he disliked the...