Thanks for that response. They are definitely marking items and corners as I visually see them do that. Not sure if that's good/bad/normal.
They did just have one food bowl, one water source and one hay feeder. We may try tonight giving them each a separate one on separate levels.
We...
Earlier this week out of the blue one of my male chinchillas started attacking the other male. They were bought together and have been living together for a year or so. I believe they are 1 1/2 to 2 years old.
He fur pulled the other one pretty bad and kept trying to bite him so we decided...
Thanks, the ramps come with fleece type covers would that be better or just remove them? He does seem to use them a lot...
Yes I noticed the plastic saucer was already dis-positioned.. :wacko:
I will keep an eye out.
Thanks for all the replies.
We decided to just redo his whole cage in one night...tiring.
Hope this is better, I know the plastic wheel is probably a no, but were hoping he just uses it for exercise and chews on the other things in his cage meant for chewing. If not I will have to remove...
Thanks for the replies, yes most of our purchases we listened to the petco/petsmart employee, they surprisingly didn't seem to care about the sale but alas they are not chinchilla "experts"
Does this cage look okay?
Cage...
No offense taken, Yes all this stuff aside from the wheel and hammock came with the cage at the pet store, we bought the hut because that's what he was using at the pet store so assumed he would like it. They did not have a bigger cage Height wise at the store.
So I need to buy, a new cage, a...
Some back-story...
We recently bought a chinchilla Sunday and that whole day he pretty much hid in a corner, Monday and Tuesday he started moving around sniffing us but still skiddish.
Last night he kept making these sounds I'd describe as chirps not really high pitched though. He only...