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Yesterday was Fenrich's 1st birthday! Hurraayyy. (It was also my 23rd birthday but this is about FenFen not me) Fenrich awaits toys. A new lava ledge? Something to hold hay in? A toy hanging from the ceiling? WOAH (BTW his buddy is in his hammock because he dragged it there and cannot get...

I was way too happy with this not to share. I'm taking a printmaking class this semester and our first project was a stylized self-portrait. It is a relief carved in linoleum block. :) I know there is a photography thread hanging around somewhere, so I'd like this to be the same way. If you...

So I really don't know what the issue is... my boyfriend left for work over an hour ago and FenFen has been barking almost the entire time. Usually he is a very quiet chinchilla. Usually when he barks it is because he wants his cage to be cleaned or because he wants something, as soon as I give...

So along with losing weight, I'm trying to quit smoking. I went to visit my parents in Michigan and was able to not smoke for an entire week, but when I came back home it got harder. My boyfriend smokes so it is really hard when he is around. I've been super cranky because of it and I feel bad...

This is a "just in case" question. Right now where I live there is already a foot of snow on the ground and it doesn't show signs of stopping any time soon. I'm afraid we may lose power and since my landlord is in charge of heat, I'm not sure if we have gas or electric heat. What I'm afraid of...

So I've already called the vet and I'm waiting for a call back, but yesterday I noticed what looked like eye gunk (kinda like a sleepy from a person) I cleaned it off and his eye looked fine, I searched the forum and found that chins can sometimes have sleepys or if dust or hay particles get in...

Decided I'd just make one thread to post pictures of Fenrich instead of making a new one each time now since Christmas is coming and there are bound to be lots more pictures! So I've noticed that FenFen is like a cat in that, I buy him a bunch of nice stuff to sleep in and he picks somewhere...

*note I have not done this, just wondering about it* So I've been looking through chin safe treats and some of them I've noticed are tea ingredients (ingredients that are often found in tea) and it got me thinking about tea for chinchillas. I also saw "bunny tummy tea" on binky bunny's website...

So this morning I came out and saw that my boyfriend had put a roll of paper towels on top of the chins cage. I picked it up and saw that it had been chewed. It is about 2 by 2 inches through 4 or 5 sheets. There is no sign of pieces around the cage so I can only assume that he ate it. He is...

So I gave FenFen a whole rosehip yesterday, usually he takes a couple bites out of them and then drops it and it gets lost into his bedding. That or I'll break it up and dump the seeds into a baggy and just give him pieces of the shell. Yesterday he bit it in half and dumped the seeds onto the...

So I've posted pictures of FenFen, but I figured I'd share my other boys as well so they don't feel left out. FenFen is actually the only one who wasn't a rescue. This is Lukas! Well, it was when he was a puppy. My parents and I rescued him from shelter after Christmas a couple years ago...

So I've looked through basically all the poop threads and found as many as I could that were similar to my situation. Anyway here's what is going on: FenFen was fine last night, my boyfriend took him out and played with him and his poop was normal last night. When we put him away we went to...

New toy from Susan at AZ Chins! He loves his cuddle buddy from Annie and Handbag! And the adorable-ness that is his new halloweeny hammock. I wish I could get some pictures that aren't taken from the outside of his cage, but he stops doing cute things and just wants to come out whenever...

So over this weekend I wasn't able to bring FenFen out for his little playtimes as I had said in a different thread. Well the past couple days he has been sleeping more than usual. It could be that he likes his hammock so much that he just doesn't feel like doing anything else, but he used to...

So this past weekend I didn't really get to take FenFen out to play for his little 10 minute sessions since I had a very busy weekend. I knew that I had to clean his cage today and so I was really just waiting until I finished taking a nap. I was going to wait until my boyfriend got home so...

So since I decided to get a chinchilla I have been on this forum everyday reading everything I could and looking at all the cute things a bunch of people on here sell. Since FenFen has come home I've bought him lots of toys and a bunch of fleece things (a tube, a cuddle ledge, a corner hammock...

So when we brought home FenFen and his cage, my boyfriend mentioned we may want to invest in a bigger cage when he grows up. I wasn't sure if this should go under housing or somewhere else so I decided here was best. What age are chins full grown? His current cage is pretty big but I might...

A friend of mine has a chinchilla and she was wondering if I could bring over my chin to a chinchilla playdate. I know there is a quarantine period for bringing a chin home and introducing them to your own chins, but what about having chinchillas from different households play together? They...

So I wrote this whole long thing about my boy's first day home and accidentally deleted it :banghead: So needless to say I don't feel like writing it again. Long story short: we brought our boy home today and I love him but can't decide on a name for him. He's a dork and has picked a shelf to...

Hello All! I've been silently stalking in the shadows for a couple weeks now reading through thread after thread and doing more research than anything else... my boyfriend will see me on the computer and ask "Reading about Chinchillas" and I'm so engrossed that I just nod. Anyway, all is in...