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My chinchilla (Kahlua) is 9 years old (soon to be 10) and he's got a friend in a separate cage besides him. Yesterday I opened both their cage doors in order to feed them, and Kahlua and the other chinnie were kinda picking at each other, but when Kahlua decided to jump on the other chinnie, I...

Do I need to check for anything in particular for the way the wood shaving are? Like "dust free" or something? I guess I should go for Aspen first, and pine if they don't have aspen? I'll check to have some fleece cut the right size and on hand, sure is a good idea!

I'll watch out for them if ever I have to do that again, but they haven't eaten nothing so they're good for now :) And also, it's the first time I've had to do that for the whole 9 years I've had my oldest chin ^_^; so I shouldn't do it again XD And yeah I buy the biggest format from petstores...

Oh oops... I misunderstood... English isn't my first language ^_^; But I've done that when I saw urine on the tray and not on the towel, cleaning it with paper towel :)

Thanks to you both, they can't get to the plastic corners, and someone told me to put a towel in the bottom, which I did (I tried the paper towels but they kept eating it and I thought it'd be better something they wouldn't eat...) Got shavings the next day, as soon as I woke up :) When...

It's not urgent, but I've emptied both my chinchillas cages from their wood shaving bedding and... I didn't have any clean left... And nothing is open at this time of the day... Anyone know if they'd be okay simply sitting on their plastic cage bottom? Anything I could use as an alternative...

Wow this is exactly the same! So I guess it has to do with a blockage in their throats when they do that. Weird as there aren't much infos on the subject, my vet didn't Xray Pedro so I can't know for sure if it was the same thing, but I think it's good to gather such infos in order to help...

:D Eating his Timothy hay like a champ!!! by himself!!! He's still not eating a lot by himself, (I'm still handfeeding CC) and the trick to make him drink water works like a charm! And also, as opposed to the last 4 days, he's actually coming out of his fleece tube! Just chinchilling on his...

Tricked baby So pedro doesn't drink much. So I've tried giving him water straight from his bottle, he let's most of it run out of his mouth. I've tried by syringe but he knows it's not his medication (he loves his tension meds). So... This morning, I mixed some of his medication with water...

You're welcome! It's mostly from advices I received myself, so I'm glad to share! :)

I never realised I could open a capsule... Derp... XD Ill go get some tonight. And as for the dustbath, yes I'm not giving him his dusty time for now, I want to ensure he's healthy before going back to regular schedule. Thanks!

it pretty much took 2 days of antibiotics and 3 days of anti-inflamatory meds for Pedro to get better, now no sneezing, just the aftereffects of the meds... Just sneezing a bit could be because of some form of allergy due to the weather changing a lot, I've read on Reddit.com as well some people...

o.o....man I can't do a research on here...I've looked it up and I haven't found many things on here o.o you got so many results XD I might try putting in some flavor in the CC, I did have banana last time but now I didn't pick the good one...I'll try applesauce, I got some unsweetened one here...

One unhappy burrito so Pedro doesn't like much the critical care....difficult to get it in him...I'll keep trying, but I don't want to force too much in him at a time... I gave it to him the first time, he didn't want to open his mouth....then when I was able to stick the siringue in his...

I know I've used baby shampoo, but it was for Pedro who was standing in his litter bowl, so it was only for his back paws and for his tail, which are both easy to dry (and I made extra sure to rinse it well after) so for the fur I'm not quite sure...but at least if it can help for paws and tail!

Not cough/sneezing but very small droppings!!! Alright so yesterday, Pedro hasn't been heard coughing or sneezing or whatever he was doing was, however tonight, as I returned from my family supper, I noticed all droppings were awefully small. So here I am, getting ready to give him critical...

yeah I guess you're right...It's just that I remember 2 years ago, when I had a problem with my chinnie, there were so many people who had infos, who would help, who would know many things...and not just "tunes" the awesome admin I kinda felt like the forum was getting deserted...I checked a...

Well this forum isn't what it used to be...I know I said Pedro was doing better, and that I actually went to see a vet for medications....but I sure didn't think everyone would simply look at my post and not give me a reply. I'm disappointed... Ah well, for those of you who might care, I heard...

I put a reply under someone else's question, thinking that it might actually answer my question, however I haven't seen anyone check that forum post in the past two days, so I'm making a post of my own to be sure. The post is about Pedro, my heart-condition chinchilla (he had heart murmur, now...

That might actually answer my question, I caught Pedro, my heart-condition chinchilla, making weird noises yesterday. he seemed like he was coughing, and barking oddly, stretching his neck when he barks. So this morning, I called the vet and was able to go today at 1:30pm. But before I went, I...