Recent content by FayeEsquire

My fiance and I live in Charleston, SC. We recently made the decision to evacuate up north with his family before Hurricane Matthew hits our coast this weekend. While our exotic vet does offer boarding, the vet's office is located much closer to the coast and in the area that's expected to get...

The posts above provided great advice on what to do care wise for the chinchilla. However, I would like to point out the elephant in the room which that your cousin clearly isn't taking care of his pet. I'd suggest you have a nice, long talk with your cousin about how he either needs to start...

I'm glad I caught this thread. Right now my boyfriend and I are in a difficult situation. We're not sure if we should or shouldn't get a 2nd chinchilla and there is one in need of rescue we're thinking of adopting. We currently have one male who just turned a year old 2 months ago. He's spent...

Nevermind. I did find a thread.

If you have an Androd phone, there's a free app called Chincilla Translator. (Yeah they didn't spell it right.) I don't know how accurate it is, but it's helped me better understand the sounds my chin makes. It has a handful of pre-recorded noises with a brief description of what each sound...

I know chinchillas are creatures of habit and before, my male wasn't any different. He is about a year and for the most part, he normally would become active around 6pm in the evening. Sometimes it would take a bit longer like for him to become active - as late as 8pm. However, recently he just...

I let my chilla free roam in the bedroom that is chinchilla proof and he always as me or "Daddy" watching him. Yes, they are destructive but for the most part, he's pretty cooperative. I just need to call his name and tell him "don't eat that" and he'll stop. I make sure he has plenty of chew...

My chinchilla has a whole chinchilla-proof bedroom to run around in (supervised of course). I've pretty much converted 3/4 of the room into things for him. I have one of those $20 entertainment centers you can get from Wal-Mart that is his. His bathhouse sits in the middle and he enjoys jumping...

Every chilla is different and as my vet told me...Let the chinchilla decide what it wants; it knows what it is most comfortable with.

You guys are getting me worried with moving. I currently rent out an apartment with 3 other people (one is my boyfriend aka "daddy"). When we first got our chinchilla, my landlord just required a written letter from a vet stating it was a healthy animal and "up to date" with his medical...

Personally, my boyfriend's mom. She's stopped by a few times to see him and I know she'll listen to any instructions on his care. Would it be best to tell her to not let him out?

My boyfriend and I are going to be going on a trip next weekend where we will be gone for about three days. I'm a bit concerned with what is the best set up for my chinchilla while we are gone. We have been thinking of leaving him with my boyfriend's mother. I have a smaller cage that we can...

I wanted a name that sounded cool and tough for chinchilla just to be ironic. I also knew I wanted something that was sometime related to video games or comics or something since that was my hobby. I started thinking of companion characters from different series and ended up talking about Mass...

Garrus get's called "Lil' Guy" a lot and when he is trying to do something he isn't suppose to do, I'll sometimes call him by his "last name" - Mr. Chinchillarian. Then when he does do something he isn't suppose to, he gets called the "Little Sh!t."

I have both. My chinchilla had a wheel with his previous owner and apparently got upset when she took it away since she wasn't giving to me when I got him. Naturally, I had to buy him a new wheel to make him happy. However, I noticed he ran in intervals because he'd start to run too fast and...