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Hey everyone, I'm looking to see if anyone has experience giving a chinchilla eye drops? My chin has glaucoma and needs 1 drop in the AM and 1 in the PM and I'm struggling to give it to him. I mostly need a way that I can pin him down or grab him that won't hurt him, I know either way he'll be...

Hello!! My 6-year-old chinchilla just got diagnosed with glaucoma. He is totally blind in his left eye and will require eyedrops/ an eye lubricant for the rest of his life. Does anyone have any experience with a chinchilla with glaucoma? I know it is extremely rare, my vet has never seen it...

Hello, I've had my chin for almost 2 years now and I've been getting his hay from the same store each time but now the store is closed and I haven't been able to find a good hay that I liked. Petsmart/ petco have bags of hay that are very small pieces of hay (seems like they're scraps of hay...

Hello, I've had my chin for almost 2 years now and I've been getting his hay from the same store each time but now the store is closed and I haven't been able to find a good hay that I liked. Petsmart/ petco have bags of hay that are very small pieces of hay (seems like they're scraps of hay...

Okay here is my issue. I don't have two cages and I don't want to have to buy another cage. Is there any other way for me to bond the baby and my chin or is the best bet to not bother then? I want to at least see if I can bond them so would it work if I put them in the carrier together or a...

I currently have a male chinchilla who I rescued from Chin Friends on Long Island and I believe he was 4/5 when I rescued him so I believe he is about 5/6 years old now. A friend of mine is a vet tech and a girl she works with has a male and female chinchilla and they had babies. I'm interested...

Oh wow!!! How do you do that? Are the wood pieces nailed together or glued?

Hey guys I want to give my chin some more treats when he does something good. Right now I don't have any for him, occasionally I will give him one plain cheerio and he loves them but I don't want him getting chunky. Any recommendations for snacks for them to have that won't make him gain too...

Hello, I used to have a wood house for my chin that he LOVED but he chewed the thing apart. This was the one I had gotten for him: https://smile.amazon.com/Kaytee-100079175-Chinchilla-Hut-Hideout/dp/B0002AS5MI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487801618&sr=8-1&keywords=chinchilla+house Can someone...

Thank you guys so much! I picked up oxbow yesterday and only gave him hay yesterday and the day before and its much better! I'll give him the new pellets tomorrow :)

Omg I'm killing him!! Wow I really didn't even know this. I am going to go to the store and buy him a different food then. Thank you so much! Is there any other food I should give him to help him with the poop? I read somewhere that plain oats (like oatmeal with no flavor or anything) could help...

Hello. I've had my chin since May and in the last day and a half I have noticed that his poop is more wet. It's not runny or diarrhea, but it's not the hard solid pellets that it usually is. I haven't changed his diet at all and he doesn't get treats. I feed him the fiesta mix pellets every day...

Hello. I've had my chin since May and in the last day and a half I have noticed that his poop is more wet. It's not runny or diarrhea, but it's not the hard solid pellets that it usually is. I haven't changed his diet at all and he doesn't get treats. I feed him the fiesta mix pellets every day...

Thank you so much!! I'm going to look into those things right now :)

I was wondering what everyone uses for bedding? My chinchilla is litter pan trained so he only urinates in his litter pan but the odor is pretty strong. I clean it every 2-3 days and it will smell after a day. I'm a college student and I don't have the time to clean it every day (yes I have time...

Hello everyone, I've had my chinchilla for about 4-5 months now and the past 3 months he has been litter trained and only pees in his litter pan but recently I have noticed that the odor has gotten stronger (if that makes sense) I clean it ever 2-3 days and usually it was fine but I don't know...

I'm going to be going up to college again in the end of August (I leave the 20th) and this will be the first time i'm going up since I got Eli. My school is an 8-9hr drive from my house. Originally I was going to fly up with him and keep him in a cat carrier but according to JetBlue they only...

I'm going to be going up to college again in the end of August and this will be the first time i'm going up and I have Eli. My school is an 8-9hr drive from my house. Originally I was going to fly up with him and keep him in a cat carrier but according to JetBlue they only allow cats and small...

Hello, My chin is 4yrs old and I adopted him from a rescue about 1 1/2 months ago so I'm still getting used to everything. I am wondering what you guys do for playtime for you chins (meaning outside of the cage) right now I taped together a bunch of large cardboard pieces and he plays in there...

I made mine out of cardboard. I went to costco and grabbed the biggest pieces I could find and used those. I taped them together and then I clip them together with those big black paper clip kind of things and when he's done, i fold it back up and stick it under my bed =)