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Buttons and Bandit, my 2 1/2 (I think?) year old brother chins. Got them from a woman who adopted them from a vet who could no longer care for them. Love them to death.

Hello, I was wondering if anyone here had any good ideas for a temporary cage on the cheaper side that can fit two adult chinchillas. I'm going on vacation in April and I'll be gone for about a week. I have a second cage but it's very old and it is now unsafe to use. Money is kind of tight so...

Hello, my chins' hay holder broke a little recently. It's an easy fix, I just need some non-toxic wood glue. The issue is, I have no idea which kind to get. I don't want to accidentally somehow get the wrong glue and make my chins sick, so are there any specific glues to get or avoid, or do I...

I know, the title may seem weird. For context, I've heard that chins love when the temps are below 60 degrees F. 50-55? They love it! So active and everything. But my two aren't like that at all. When the room temp is below 60, they actually aren't very active at all. They aren't lethargic or...

*Sigh* here we go again. The redness on the heel of my two chins' feet is still not gone. To be exact, the redness on their heels doesn't cover the whole heel, just the center mainly. There's also no scabbing, scratches, heat, bumps, puss, etc. All there is, is some slight normal callusing here...

I have an opportunity to get part of my house renovation done early with me being able to stay in the house. It was originally planned to take place a month ago, but got stopped because of the virus. The rest of the renovations will be done in June. These early renovations will be the kitchen...

So, some background. My two chins have had their ChinSpin removed for around 1 1/2-2 months. This is because one of them (Buttons) had a foot injury, which worsened with the wheel, so I took it out, but then a few weeks after the other chin (Bandit) had a foot injury so the wheel had to stay...

My chin Buttons has recently had an abscess on his foot that healed by itself. Since the healing (around a month ago), the cage has been padded with fleece liners with quilt batting sewn inside. The padding doesn't cover everything, just the two floors and a half shelf leading up to the second...

Usually I make sure my two chins have two lava ledges at all times, but they've already chewed through one and broke it off the mount (now it's just a chunk on the cage floor) and about halfway chewed through the second one. During these Coronavirus times, I'm not sure if I'll be able to find...

So the vet I was originally going to use for boarding my chins cancelled due to the Coronavirus. I then asked the person I'm renting an apartment from (house is getting renovated so I have to move somewhere for 2 weeks) if I could bring the chins. She said yes, which is great, but then I...

As some of you may have seen, my chin Buttons had a planned surgery on Monday. Somethings changed, and it was moved to Tuesday. However, today I got amazing news. Somehow Buttons' abscess is gone. The Bumblefoot healed by itself. The vet hasn't seen anything like it before, so we're both...

My chin was supposed to go in for surgery this morning, but something came up so he's staying overnight and the surgery will be done tomorrow. I have a couple concerns with this. 1. How will his brother feel once he finally comes home? I don't want their bond to be broken because he was at the...

My chin will be going to the vet tomorrow for surgery. Since I know he'll have a different scent when he goes back home, how should I introduce him to his brother? I'd hate to do it incorrectly and have his brother attack him.

My beloved chin Buttons is undergoing surgery this upcoming Monday to remove a small abscess on his foot. Knowing how fragile chinchillas are, and after seeing so many stories of surgeries gone wrong, chins not waking up from anesthesia, etc. I'm nervous. The vet that will be doing the surgery...

While applying some Blu Kote to my chin's foot, he started violently kicking and got it all over my hands. Which is fine, but he also got a few splotches on his fur. Which means he is now a chin with purple markings. I tried drying it off with a paper towel as much as I could. Will he be okay...

My chin has minor bumblefoot, and he hasn't had a dust bath in over a week. I know I shouldn't give him a full dust bath, but at the same time he'd never let me just pat dust onto him. I feel like if I hold him I'd just get my skin oils all over him from him squirming. I tried asking the vet...

My chin that doesn't have surgery coming up for bumblefoot bled from one of his heels onto a ledge 3 days ago. The vet said before this happened that he just had some normal calluses, and he didn't seem to have any abscess either when I checked him out in the past. Only some widening of the...

I recently bought a bundle of toys I'll be giving to my chin post-foot surgery for more enrichment (he'll have no wheel, playtime, and no ledges at all) and a distraction from his sutures. The bundle has 20 vine balls, 15 poplar slices, and two 14-inch garlands. He'll also have access to two...

My chin has minor bumblefoot, so can he take dust baths? The last time he took a dust bath (few days after he first bled from the abscess) there was a quite small amount of blood afterwards, so that's holding me back from giving him a dust bath even though he doesn't have cracked feet.

A fleece pad/blanket with two layers of Poly-Fil quilt batting inside (chins can't get to it, it's not a pillowcase style. Just a squishy pad covering the metal cage floor since one of them is getting foot surgery soon) is currently being sewn as we speak. However, is it safe to wash in the...