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Tile floors are great as long as you can get your chins potty trained. I had the first floor of my FF covered with tiles and the second floor with pine boards so I can just vacuum the cage to get the poops / wasted pellets and hays out. Works great!

Why not try a metal baking pan instead?

I have a feisty ferret cage for my only girl, and I'm thinking of buying her a wheel. I've read posts here saying the chin spin can snap the bars and people recommended adding a piece of wood when mounting it. So here is my question: 1) Does anyone have a picture of the wood trick. I read...

His name is Zorro ;)

I could only wish... ;) It's my friend's

I think grey+black+white look awesome if they are all on one chin!! like this:

Wow..... This building looks great! Lots of fun

I experienced a similar situation last week and got lots of help on the forum. Thus you may find this thread helpful: http://chins-n-hedgies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33292

Yay! He is gaining weight! He is 350g now! My friend is picking him up tonight. He is on a healthy diet now. Wish him well~

Just a quick update: Poops are officially back to normal, AND his weight is back to 340g!

Oops... Charlie, Charlie, what can I say. This chin lived on peas and corns all his life, poor kid... Then I hope it is truly acidophilus that does the trick, coz that's all he is getting today apart from his pellets and hay.

Thanks Susan for your explanation! This little guy must be the sensitive one. I didn't mention in my last post but I did hand-feed him several pieces of dried peas and corns from Charlie to help ease the switch. Maybe these treats contributed to the poop improvement as well. I'll monitor his...

He took acidophilus last night and ate half Charlie (only pellets) with half Oxbow, and his poops improved significantly today. I just picked up a fresh one and it's about normal now. I'm so relieved... Thanks everyone for the input! His weight actually dropped a little, from 340g (two weeks...

Mary, thanks for posting this thread and giving the warning about the plastic bag! I store my hay in a large Ziploc, and your story startled me! I'm definitely switching to jars!

Alright, acidophilus it is!

I've started educating my friend over email for the past 2 weeks! I had no idea she was feeding him the wrong food before I babysit him ...

Thanks everyone for your comments. I guess I'll try acidophilus. Wow...this looks scary. He lived solely on treats in the past, so should I do 1/2 Oxbow and 1/2 Charlie then? His owner tried to do that but he would pick out the treats and leave both oxbow and charlie pellets in the bowl, and...

I'm babysitting a 6-month old chin for my friend for a month. He was only 340g when he came to my house two weeks ago. He was on Charlie, and obviously he only ate the colorful stuff (dried veggies and fruits I guess) but never the pellets. He came to me with a bag of Kaytee Timothy cube and a...

Thank all for your comments. Make perfect sense! I wasn't thinking of replacing AC with these summer houses, but rather using them as complement, but now they seem quite mediocre.