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  1. Abzgatez

    New Chinchilla Owner please help!

    She will chew on items on top of her cage if I leave them there carelessly, but I’ve learned the hard way to only have items up there that don’t interest her in that respect (containers mostly storing her bedding, food, hay, etc...) as long as they are contained, she doesn’t bother em 😇
  2. Abzgatez

    New Chinchilla Owner please help!

    Thank you for your responses! yes I definitely have the urge to scoop her up and show her that it is affection and safe affection at that... but I do not want to upset her either. I would like to be able to handle her and for her to understand that it’s safe to be picked up more so for if I...
  3. Abzgatez

    Chinchi scoots on wet towels

    So, this isn’t an issue really, more of a query as far as behavior. My chinchi, Chinchi, will scoot her butt on wet towels. Any wet fabric really... and when my mom was chinchi-sitting for me, she twice shot piss after encountering a Diet Coke and then a glass of wine sitting on the floor with...
  4. Abzgatez

    New Chinchilla Owner please help!

    Also, yes her name is officially Chinchi... very unoriginal but my last pet was a rabbit named Buns. I have no excuse for my lack of originality. Anyway, I can show pictures of my Chinchi! LAST QUESTION: is there a reason she scoots her butt on wet towels? What is that about
  5. Abzgatez

    New Chinchilla Owner please help!

    Also, I open her little fence every night so she can run around and jump up on my bed (and shit everywhere) and hop off the walls. I think when I get a new dresser it will need to be metal. She’s such a butthead but I love her so much! I like to make cardboard tunnels and hide rosehips and...
  6. Abzgatez

    New Chinchilla Owner please help!

    Hello! It has been a WHILE since I posted this initial query! Since then, I have discovered that my baby is ACTUALLY a lady. No thanks to the dumbass kid I acquired her from. He definitely lied about ever taking her to a vet, She is doing great now! Especially since I stopped looking for hair...
  7. Abzgatez

    New Chinchilla Owner please help!

    Hello! I purchased a chinchilla about a month ago who I named Houdini. I got him from a high school kid who kept him in basically a hamster cage. His fur was matted and since I got him he's in (what I call) a palace, an enclosure taller than me with multiple jump platforms and such... He gets...
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