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My chinchilla Crouton has just recently become a biter. He'll be 2 years old in January, and my boyfriend and I have had him for about a year and a half now. At first, he wasn't a biter at all. When he reached puberty, he started to nip/nibble people, but never hard. Over the last couple weeks...

If I can't tell who the aggressor is, would my best bet be to trim the whiskers of both? Crouton seems to be more aggressive when he feels he's in his territory (chasing Sniffles away from his cage, or going up to Sniffles' cage when he's out for playtime and Sniffles isn't). But, in neutral...

I'm almost positive they're both males. Before their first playdate I looked up some pictures here and online to double check. I'm 100% sure with Crouton, because he is much more comfortable with being picked up and held, so I could get a clear view on multiple occasions. The noise Sniffles...

Let me start with a little background. Crouton is my 8 month old male. We've had him since May. In July, we decided to try introducing another male, and brought home Sniffles, a male between 1 and 2 years old. When Sniffles was comfortable, we tried putting them in cages side by side...

Chinchillas can sleep with their eyes open, and usually will if they're not entirely comfortable yet. So, if you see him sitting really still and it looks like he's just staring off into space, he's probably sleeping. Mine sleep when it's dark or light, they don't seem picky. But, when...

Crouton gets super weird when we haven't let him out for a couple days. This (see pic below) is his setup for now, till we get him the FN we want. He likes to climb on top of the cinderblocks, then slide upside down pressed in between them and the cage bars. Sometimes, he'll crawl horizontally...

I don't have any experience with this (never lost enough weight that quickly!), but I did some super-quick online research, and the first couple things that popped up were losing more fat (apparently there's extra skin because there's still fat under there to lose?), and toning through exercise...

Thanks, Riven! I guess if the issue comes up again (the boyfriend seems to have forgotten about the blacklights for now), I don't need to worry about using them every once in a while. Might use them anyway just to check for chinchilla urine - we want to litterbox train Sniffles, because his...

Hahaha okay, I'll try. I'd like to see some glowing-white bellies! I anticipate Sniffles looking truly evil.

Crouton loves making a game out of being bad! Before we got Sniffles, he would get nearly free run of the room during playtime, with the exception of an area behind a gate (with the electronics, etc.) and on top of the dresser (and the windowsill behind it). One day, he figured out how to get...

Okay, so this is kind of a weird question, but last night my boyfriend got some blacklights from a neighbor who was moving out, and he wants to put them in our room. We keep the chinchillas in our room, so I told him I had to check on whether that was safe first. (We also got some strobe...

I've had someone do this. When I was talking to the previous owner of Sniffles about getting him, she mentioned that she does like to do rehoming fees, partly because she feels that people don't treat "free" animals as well and partly to ensure that they can pay for taking care of the animals...

Now that I have some pics with the chins, I thought I'd join. With Crouton at playtime last night! (After midnight, no makeup, pajamas...) And here is my boyfriend with Crouton :D Pretty much my favorite picture ever, unless we can get one with him and BOTH chinchillas. Anndddd, since my...

Decided to try some playtime photography and got at least a couple decent pictures! It helps that we've been doing bathroom playtime so the area is nice and small (and there's no hiding from the camera!) (Note: The big yellow plastic ball in some pics came with Crouton when we got him off CL...

My Sniffles was "free" off of craigslist, although not advertised as such. We actually didn't know until the day we brought him home what kind of adoption fee we would be looking at (but, after meeting us and deciding that we were a good home, his previous owner told us just to take whatever we...