Recent content by nuvola09

I wanted to pose these details to the forum to see if anyone thinks our new young female has any problems. In short: 5 month old female barely drinks any water, and I don't see any urine in the cage bedding, and only some poop. She is eating hay, and shows an interest in shredded wheat...

Thank you! Just hearing other people weigh in on this makes me feel better about it. I've extended "treats" to her after most encounters, but she's so wary that she sometimes won't even take it. Or she takes it angrily and then just yells at me some more. I'm glad to hear that she's likely...

My new-ish 6-year-old female had an eye problem and was taken to the vet. Long story short, she's fine and she needs eye drops twice a day. However, she was an aggressively bred female who came from, in my own humble opinion, a very neglectful/abusive environment. She was not raised with...

Thank you for the input. She was, indeed, in a wire bottom cage for all of her life, if I'm not mistaken. The problem got worse. I came back after some time out of the house, and nearly everything was wet and the bedding needed to be changed immediately. I think she was peeing while running...

A few months back I posted in the "new chin" section about an erratic 5 y/o female I bought from a deceptive breeder. She turned out to be very unfamiliar with human contact, and was kept pregnant most of her life in small breeding cages. The breeder admitted to rarely (if ever) handling her...

You're not kidding. The trailer they live in was strait out of an episode of Hoarders, with their personal belongings in piles in the living room. The trailer has a distinct smell because everything is very dirty. @gizandcharlie - My mother used to want to feed mine raisins all day long...

To give this additional context, the breeder also suggested that I use what you folks commonly refer to as the "death ball" so that she can exercise. Comments like that make me not trust this woman, and have concern for her remaining animals and who she sells them to. She has also casually...

The breeder is now requesting I sell Mazie back to her, saying, "She misses her family more than I thought she would.... No distance will be too much to get our beloved back."

Thank you all for the input, it makes me very hopeful. @Bookworm - that would be my ideal, to get her to my safe room to run around and let her approach me at her convenience when she's free. But I can't seem to remove her from the cage on my own because of the spraying. She's in a small-ish...

Thank you for the reply. I understand that my post is a bit frantic and judgmental, so I apologize if it comes off harsh. I'm certainly not angry with the chinchilla or unwilling to house her. My concern is, basically, can she be trained out of her current habits? Can she be tamed out of her...

New to the board, so... hi. :) Looking for some input on a situation with a newly acquired chin. My background: chinchilla owner for 6 years of a 10-year-old female named Sashimi. I used to have a male, also, but he was inbred and passed away several years ago. My female gets restless...