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My beautiful girl Astrid past away today in my arms.

She is catatonic and hypothermic. Not eating, not drinking not moving. Doc gave oil and antibiotics he said he doesn't hear anything in lungs but bowl movement is slow so some sort of blockage..... She is really not doing well....

What exactly do you feed your chin? Mine is catatonic and hasn't eaten since yesterday....

I know its not the best pic but can you tell me if its male or female... It looks female to me. https://files.fm/u/a3sjq2t5

Thank you so much! Yes that was what i was meaning...she usually does the priming close to summer(that why i call it changing her coat for summer) but that not it... I know she has been stressed this couple of days but this whole hair missing thing is over a week. I haven't seen her stressed or...

I need your help and knowledge. Astrid has a huge patch of hair missing that looks like someone shaved it off. I know its almost summer time here in Greece and that she has started chancing her coat but i am not sure that this patch of missing hair is just Astrid getting her summer coat. Any...

After a long time i finally managed to update Astrid's cage and removed the plastic shelving and i got myself wooden ones. I have to admit translating and trying to explain "kiln dried pine" to people was not easy and i still feel insecure that the shelving i got might poison my baby! In my...

She is not the being picked up type of girl. Will keep in mind though to check if something is scaring her or stressing her out.

Lets try again on the image thing... You can clearly see in the last pic where the hair came off.

I opened Astrids cage and while she was out and i was petting her a huge chunk of fur stayed on my hand. She is behaving normally and eating and pooping normally. The only thing is she is sleeping alot due to heat despite that i have a/c and marble tiles in her cage. Showing you below photo of...

I got my chin when she was 3 months old...they were not giving them while younger.

Astrid and i are doing great!!! She is an amazing creature and she enjoys getting out of the cage and spending time with me and all the love and attention she gets from the family. Its now a year that we are together and things have settled down and we have found a routine. Lately when...

ok so its a gnawing stone...not a mineral one... some months ago she went through that stage where she chewed on everything but now she seems to be ok with her cage.of course i keep an eye on her all the time and i check the cage regularly so if i notice chewing issues i can take action.

Heey Jennifer and welcome...i am a new chin owner as well ( i got astrid 7 months ago) i am iliana by the way. hope you have lots of fun with norman and we get to learn all the new things there are for chinchillas

I know its been some time so i thought to let you all know that astrid is doing fine. She loves to be petted and scratched and talked too and every night we have our own play time where she climbs up on me and runs up and down and jumps all over. She has stopped crying the nights though i have...