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So I have two chinchillas that have lived together for over a year now and get along fine for the most part. Pirate is older than Westley (7 yr old vs. 1.5 yr old), but is significantly smaller and not a very dominant chinchilla (although I guess I'd say he is the dominant one in this dynamic)...

Your chins share food?? That's awesome. Mine tend to steal from one another.

I've tried putting the hay back and they just ignore it. It's like they know what I'm trying to do. And I can't bring myself to not give them new hay for more than about 12 hours. Maybe I'm being to soft on my spoiled boys.

My two chins are very wasteful with their food. One of them is especially bad. They will eat about 1/2 a pellet, then throw it on the cage floor or back into the bowl. They rarely ever finish a whole pellet. When it comes to hay, they pull out a strand of hay from their feeder, bite it down the...

If you have a vet you can ask them for recommendations. The people working the front desk often provide such services on the side. That's how we got a hamster sitter once and it worked out great.

Mister won't eat Critical Care at all; I've tried before when he's healthy but he refuses it completely (even when mixed 1:3 with Petromalt, which he loves). So unfortunately that's out the window. We just let him out again to see how he's doing; he's still bright-eyed and very active, and he...

I have two chins, Mister and Pirate, who got ahold of a plastic bag containing rosehips. They chewed/ate through about half of one of those snack-size Ziploc bags, and it looks like all the rosehips are gone (there was probably like half an ounce in there). I cleaned the living room of poops...