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Are chinchillas ok with dogs? The reason I'm asking is because (hopefully) later this year my family may be getting a dog. Obviously I would NEVER let them play together but there may be instances where the dog might be in the same room as the cage (the cage is on a ledge and a stand so theres...

I really like the ferret and critter nation cages. Theres nothing wrong with my current cage, I would just really like to get the cn or fn instead. Are they available to purchase in the uk?

This problem is driving me insane. So obviously chins pee. I have no problem with that. Its the fact that both my chinchillas choose to stick their bums up against the corners of the cage and pee outside the cage. The only place they pee is corners. I dont mind cleaning poo because I can just...

Hi i havent been on this forum in a while, but yesterday I bought my chinchillas some new toys from pets at home including the small veg play patch. The toy is quite small and priced at £7 I thought durability would make up for size. Nope. Most of it was destroyed within an hour. I was quite...

My chinchillas were slightly constipated and I was more worried about rocky but thankfully he is fine now. Apollo is not. When I put them in the bath (no water) rocky pooped none stop but Apollo didn't poop at all for about 10 minutes. I gave him a raisin to help his bowel movements. When he did...

So about 2 days ago my breeder came round (was worried about Rocky) and told me he was constipated. He was pooing but not very often and they were small and hard. She said feed raisins and let him have a run round. I do not have raisins and will be unable to get them for about a week. I do...

Hi I havent been on in a while but I just wanted to say recently I got a new chin introduced him to apollo and now they are living together. Unfortunately as soon as he moved in with apollo all our pellets went mouldy and I could not buy the same brand so I had to just switch without any mixing...

My chins are fine but I have a question about malo. I am aware it is hereditary and that it can happen when chins dont have enough things to chew but can it happen randomly? My chins have a lot of chew toys and there is no cases of it in their relatives so could they just get it with no cause...

Just curious on what hay you feed yours. Mine used to get meadow but ive recently switched him to timothy

My chin Apollo lives alone. He has a ton of toys, human interaction daily and a fleece cuddly toy but I think he is depressed. He sits in a corner of his cage most of the time, only moving to eat, poop, drink, pee and be played with. I don't think it is a health problem because he has been like...

Ok so I'm worried. When I first got Apollo, he was a happy, normal sized chin. He was previously fed alfalfa and pellets. Now he is fed meadow hay and the same pellets as before. He is still happy but he has lost weight. A few months ago I weighed him and he was about 450g. The other day I...

Apollo lives on it own and seems fine but I feel bad for him. He gets played with for about 30 minutes a day but he is left in the house on his own for about 7 hours monday to friday. I feel like I should get him a buddy but I don't think I know enough about introductions or have enough for...

Havent posted photos of Apollo yet (except at the breeders) so Ill do it now. Ignore all the poos in that one, it was just before I cleaned his cage.

My little boy lives alone but has lots of toys. Recently I've noticed his fur isn't as fluffy (we give him daily dustbaths) and also that he goes into these vacant trances. He just stands there for ages and when I normally stroke or tickle him, he nibbles my finger and runs around it but he just...

I was reading a post in the faq about chinchilla names websites and found that most of the sites were deleted or the name page deleted. I have a website in my favourites from several years ago when we were naming our guinea pigs and there was so many great ones it was so hard to choose! I was...

Hi I haven't been on here in a while but I think I had posted about the chinchilla I reserved. Well today I brought him home and he's so sweet. He jumped around for about 20 minutes, explored the whole cage but then he's just sat in the corner of the big middle shelf and is not moving. He is...

I'm happy to say I've reserved my first chinchilla! He is still a baby and therefore will not be coming home for another 3 weeks and in that time I have to buy EVERYTHING as the only thing I've bought at the minute is the actual chin...:facepalm: The cage I'm probably getting is this one...

Looking at cages online to buy and I have found 4 did post in another topic about three but I've found an even better one (the website is having a sale aswell so it's cheap) It is 90.5cm tall, 64cm wide and 46.5cm deep. I read on a website (please correct me if I'm wrong) that the minimum size...

Not sure if this goes here or in the new owner bit. Well I was browsing the forums and read that you cannot give chinchillas tap water? :hmm: Is this true? I had planned to give them tap water all along as I have done with other pets (none had problems) just wondering if its poisonous to them or...

Hi as you may know already I am getting my first chinchilla soon and I would really like a female. I have looked everywhere and I have found 5 breeders. I have emailed them all. 1 doesn't seem very knowledgeable (the chin is male aswell and she is trying to sell the chin at 7 weeks when we were...