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My chinchilla Zeb has always been a bit of a fur chewer but it was limited to a little bit on his back left hip and that was that. As of this week, his chewing has intensified to the point where his whole left side has been chewed to the point where I can see skin. The skin does not look...

My 3-year old chin, Zeb, looks like he's having some sort of eye troubles. His eye's partly closed and the fur around it looks kind of damp. It has looked this way for a day or two. I'm not quite sure what's going on. I checked his teeth to see if they looked out of whack because I know tooth...

Okay, I know I probably should have done this before now but I located a gram scale (non-electric so it was a bit of an experience trying to see if the chins would stay still) and weighed my chins. They're both healthy males and what I got weight-wise seems way on the low end to me compared to...

http://cuteoverload.com/2011/08/05/keesingk-booth-1-scent/ The chinchilla desperately needs a dust bath and the owner was a bit careless in letting it get that close to other animals, but 'tis a chinchilla on cuteoverload! Also, what are the odds that another Sarah K. submitted that? I think...

I searched for this in FAQs and didn't see it so I was wondering: if I'm sick, should I stay as far away from the chinnies as possible? I think I have some sort of stomach flu at the moment that has traveled through 4/5 of my family and although I didn't realize there was something really wrong...

I've been in Peru for 2 weeks and will be here for 4 more and I miss my chinchillas desperately. So Saturday when I went to Machu Picchu and my guide suggested that we might encounter wild chinchillas, I pretty much cried tears of joy. I dedicated my tour of the ancient city to a chinchilla...

Hello! My nine month old chin has had very small and light colored poops the past two days and he seems to not be pooping at all today. He is fed oxbow and timothy hay, cheerios or shreddies as treats. I was told in chat today to syringe feed acidophillis and water, but was wondering how much...

So it's nothing fancy, but the chinchillas have been moved to the basement for the summer with snazzy, updated cages. Here's a general shot: The BEAUTIFUL pink marble I managed to get for $2 a square foot. It's kind of big for the cage, but I figured it would suffice for the time being. The...

I went away this weekend and on Saturday I became a bit worried because it was a lot warmer than it was supposed to be and I was afraid that the chinchillas might get a bit too warm so I called my friend and asked her to go over to my house and get some windows open for air flow. I moved home...

Okay, so it's getting to be warm season here and I'm thinking about moving the chins to the basement because I know that it stays below 70 there all season. The only thing I am worried about is light. I want to put the cage by the small window down there but I don't think that they would be...

So, I already had a photo of my Zeb rocking a killer 'stache but I wanted to push the "monsieur" bit a little further. I decided to fashion a top hat out of construction paper and electrical tape and have a photo shoot. It was pretty challenging to do, but I realized the true key was to give him...

Alright, I want to make sure I have a really good vet lined up for my boys in case anything goes wrong and get in contact with them so that if something happens, I won't be frantically flipping through the yellow pages. Is it reasonably to just call places and ask them about their experience and...

Is it okay to have my chin cage by the window while it's still mild out? I don't think there could be any problems with overheating, but should they not be getting this much sun?

Hello, there was a thread posted suggesting chamomile calmed chins and might reduce fur chewing and I wanted to know if anybody has anything to say about the validity of that claim? Also, would tea bags containing pure chamomile flower be the same if opened and administered in small pinches?

My boy Zeb always used to have a kind of crispy stripe of fur on his left side that I thought was from him running into his water bottle but I've realized it's from him chewing on his fur. He's not too bad looking but I can tell that he chews a bit on his right hip. When I put him with my 12...

I'm from the Buffalo area and I have two male standard greys. I got my boy Zeb (1.5 years) in June off craigslist from a Cornell vet student / breeder and by baby Roo (12 weeks) about a week ago also from craigslist from a family. I've wanted chinchillas for a really long time and I surprised...

I have had my boy Zeb since June and he is a year and a half old. Less than a week ago I bought a 12 week old male to eventually be his cage mate. Having read everything i could find about introducing two chinchillas, I decided to put them in two cages, side by side. Everything seems to be going...