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Hello! A little backstory: Sprocket was diagnosed with an ulcer a little over 3 weeks ago. She completed a round of antibiotics (TMS) and recently finished her treatment for the ulcer itself (Famotidine). Treatment also included feeding of critical care mixed with EmerAid. She was just boarded...

Hello, long time lurker, but it's been many years since I've posted. My 12 year old chinchilla, Sprocket, seems to be scratching at her ears excessively and chewing at her paws excessively tonight and I'm not sure what to make of it. I also noticed her scratching at the corner of her ears, but...

I was hacking away at a honeysuckle plant today and started to wonder: can chins have dried honeysuckle vines? What about passion flower/fruit vines? :hmm: I haven't found any information about honeysuckle or passion vines so, does anyone on here know? Thanks!

Christmas came early for Sprocket this year. I recently moved and felt that she needed some new fleece! So one afternoon later, her cage was completely redecorated. This was my first time sewing fleece by machine, and boy, it makes redecorating her cage so much faster and easier! Whole cage...

We've been playing with my boyfriend's new camera and finally caught a popcorn on the slow-motion setting! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq8p6L8b2YI

Last night we gave Sprocket a stick by sliding it through the bars of her cage. She grabbed it in her mouth, jumped off her perch and proceeded to zoom around her cage with the stick in her mouth like a dog! She sat for a while, munching on it. I reached in to try to grab the stick and she...

I finally got a couple of pictures of Sprocket eating with her eyes closed! She'll open them just enough to grab her next pellet, then as she eats, she falls back to sleep.

This morning I woke up to find a lump on Sprocket's neck. She seems to be acting normal: responding to us and even enjoying some scritches! I thought it was just fur, but it feels like a lump. Any ideas on what it could be? I am planning on taking her to the vet today or tomorrow (when I...

Sprocket! So yummy! Don't let that sweet face fool you, here's how she really is! (Stuck in her cage for being naughty!)

Cozy chinny! Sprocket the burrower Must resist tickles! Quit taking pictures of me mom! You woke me up, now what?

Lurking in the shadows! and feet!

I've been looking around the forums and was looking for carrier info. I need an overnight cage and travel carrier for Sprocket by this weekend, so ordering anything is unfortunately out of the question (probably will in the future). I was planning on getting her a cat carrier, and was...

Sprocket has found a new favorite sleeping spot! We'll come home to find feet sticking out, a nose sticking out (like in the picture), or just ears. Every time we try to get a picture of her feet sticking out, she wakes up. /sigh. She has settled into her cage and loves it. She now has a...

Here are some pics from playtime. She's so hard to photograph because she refuses to sit still! :-D p.s. Does anyone know what color she is? We think she's a beige, but her eyes aren't really red.

Whenever we take Sprocket out for playtime, she always seems so clumsy. She'll run into side of some small cardboard boxes, miss jumps(about 6" high), and is just downright clumsy. On the other hand, she loves to use the doors in the hallway as vertical spring boards. Is this normal for an 11...

So, we're building a cage for Sprocket and have almost everything done...except for the bottom. The original design was going to be a mesh floor (with tiles) over a pan that would slide out through a door in the bottom front. However, now we can't decide if we should just have a mesh-less...

Hello, My boyfriend and I recently acquired a 9-week old chin, Sprocket, after wanting one for almost 2 years! She is an absolute delight and has been a whole lot of fun so far. We've been lurkers as guests on this forum for a while, so now with the new addition, I figured it was a good time...