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My plan was to move my chinchilla cages from my dining room to upstairs in my guest room. I had one chinchilla. Hugo. Four years old and every inch an alpha male. I wanted a second chinchilla. I ended up with a second and third chinchilla, Willoughby and Remy. Willoughby was from a pet store...

Twas the Night Before Christmas By Barnaby Chinchilla Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the villa Not a creature was stirring, except two chinchillas Worn chew toys were hung in our cage with great thought, In hopes that we'd spend the night gnawing a lot The humans were...

I had come up with a clever way of getting Hugo back in his cage - I would herd him underneath it and then barricade him with cardboard and a spare cage wall so that he had two choices: 1. stay under the cage or 2. jump up into his cage. Here he is choosing option 3: climb the barricade to...

So I couldn't sleep last night becuase I was feeling, well, sad about world events etc. I went down to my chinchilla cages in search of some much needed fuzz therapy. This is what happened. Me: I am sad, please comfort me. Chinchilla: Why aren't you feeding me a treat? Me: Here is a treat. Now...

What is the strangest thing your chinchilla has chewed on or eaten? For me, the weirdest thing chewed on is my Vacuum Cleaner. They hate the vacuum cleaner because it is noisy and magically removes their precious poops from the carpet. Were they attracted to the nummy plastic or just out for...

I have two chinchillas. I've promised myself I would't get any more. The two I have are more than a handful already. :P So.. why do I go to the humane society website to see if there are any for adoption? : P I'm addicted. That's why. Anyway, I want to add these two chinchillas to my family...

My two boys get out of cage time nearly every evening. Sometimes I get home late but they still get play time. However, they want to play a lot longer than I want to stay awake watching them. :) How do I get them to go back into their cages? Barnaby is such a good boy. I just thump on the box...

Sooo thankful I didn't move my chinchillas upstairs, as my AC is only effectively cooling the first floor of my house. : o Anyway, whoo hoo! Wasn't it just winter a week ago? Lu :wacko:

My two male chinchillas Barnaby and Hugo have separate cages and mutual play time. For a while there, they practically ignored each other when running around but now they are taking turns trying to mount each other. There is no biting or even fur pulling, just chasing and leap frogging. There is...

I just watched a movie featuring the song "Killing Me Softely". Now this song is lodged in my head and won't go away! I was wondering if anyone here wanted to try their hand at rewriting it with chinchilla lyrics. :) I thought it might be a nice challenge. Also, with chinchilla lyrics, it...

I have two Chins, Barnaby, 5 years, and Hugo, 7 months. They live in separate cages. Sometimes when they are out for mutual play time, they will sit close together and Barnaby will groom Hugo. It is very cute. He noms Hugo's nose, eyes, ears and general face area. Sometimes Hugo kakks, but...

Okay, so maybe I was over reacting. On Friday morning I came down to say good morning to my chinchillas. I noticed that Barnaby hadn't eaten any hay AND that the oats I'd scattered over his Oxbow kibble the night before were still there. That was strange, becuase B is usually an oats vacuum...

One of my chinchilla's facebook friends (mostly other chinchillas & chin people) posted photos of what looked like a miniature hippo. A few of the pictures showed it hanging out with a chinchilla. I wondered: is this a mutant hairless chinchilla? It was, actually, a mutant hairless guinea pig...

What sort of container do you have in your cage to hold your chin's loose hay? Right now, I'm just serving it in a pile on one of the shelves in their cages. Its fun to watch my younger Chin, Hugo, bound up to the hay pile and start nomming in ecstacy. He will eat nearly all of it in one...

Mmm... how many threads do we need about chins who won't get along? :) In my case I have two male Chins. Barnaby is 5 years old. I've had him for 9 months and love him very much. He is fairly mellow. I thought he needed a friend/frenemy and so I found Hugo who is 7 months old and full of...

Do you sing to your chinchillas? How do they react? Do they appear to enjoy your singing? Please vote here and post about your monsters reactions to human seranading. :)

Last week, I got my Feisty Ferret cage. What do you think? It has taken a while, but Barnaby seems to like it. Oh, and yes. That is a sock tied to the top door. The latch broke. I'm getting a new one.

I'm not sure where to post this. Does it belong here or in Behavior or in the New Owner folder because I've only been a chin slave for 6 months? Just got a lovely Feisty Ferret cage for my 5 year old chinchilla, Barnaby. I kitted it out with lovely kiln dried pine shelves and lava ledges. It...

My new chincihlla who is 5 months old seems to have a smaller ear to body ratio than my 5 year old chin. Will his ears get bigger in proprotion to his body or is he forever cursed with small ears? My older chinchilla thinks the new one looks like a rat because of his smaller ears. : P

:pillowfight: I've been the human slave of Barnaby, a five year old chinchilla, for 6 months. I was concerned that he was lonely or just bored so I decided to get another chinchilla. Also, I am now hopelessly in love wtih chinchillas. I figured even if he totally hated on the other chinchilla...