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Thanks for your reply! If anyone else ever has this issue, I realised that if you let them wee on their liners and then use a pipette to sick it up from the fleece, you can collect most of the urine :)

Hi everyone, one of my chinnies visited the vet today with a suspected UTI. He's been given pain relief and an X-ray to rule out other things, but they've asked me to try and collect a urine sample. Does anyone have any advice? Thank you in advance!

I have two male chinchillas (10 months and 14 months) neither are neutered and they are a bonded pair (rescued). Recently the 10 month old has started trying to mount the 14 month old (who isnt all too pleased about it, as you can imagine). It started as a little thing but has progressively...

Thank you :)

Quick update: this morning, his eye is completely fine 😊 I'm so relieved! I'm assuming something was in his eye, or irritated it and it was watering to remove the problem. Hopefully this will be of use to other chin owners in future!

Hi All, I've come home today and noticed something different in one of my chin's eyes (photo attached- sorry it's not better, he's a little skittish, hence the luring him with an apple stick). It seems crusty to me, as though there's discharge. Would you see how it goes over the next few days...

I have a 16" Tic Tac wheel and it's really great- my boys love it. They're so worth the money!

Thanks for your reply, the whole area looks linked really. It goes from the side of his head, below his ears all the way down to his chin. It's also on the other side of his head to a lesser extent. We're currently working on handling him as we've only had him a couple of weeks, but will try to...

Hi All, We've come home from work today to find our young (adopted)chinchilla with fur that looks wet but doesnt feel wet and no wetness to be seen in their cage. I've attached a photo. I've given them a sand bath but it doesn't seem to have improved. Does anyone have an idea what it could be...

Great, thanks so much! Good to know 😊

Hi all, Our chins are perfectly healthy and active happy boys but I noticed a strange behaviour earlier and was wondering if it's just a chin thing or something I should watch out for? One of my boys put his nose into the other chins ear and it looked as though he was rooting around in there...