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On Sunday I picked up a rescue chin, who came from the Humane Society in Phoenix. Friends of mine picked her up for me since my trip to Phoenix on Sunday had 20 stops in it! The owners of this chin surrendered her because she had tooth problems. I'm guessing that meant that they believed...

I got the strangest phone call today. A man wanted to know what the shipping of a bag of Blue Cloud would be to Michigan. The person on the phone said that he was wanting a full bag of Blue Cloud so that he could confirm that it was actually Blue Cloud. What else would it be? Is there some...

There are so many cages out there that are not chinchilla appropriate. Some can be made to be safe and appropriate and require a lot of work to make them that way. When they are like this it isn't worth it to buy them unless you get them used and want to have to change anything. Buying a cage...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/child-dies-infected-rat-family-sues-petco-22671659 That is so awful. I saw that this morning and just felt so horrible for that little boy's family. I wonder what will come of the lawsuit, I can't help but wonder if Petco will just settle with them just to...

Exactly a month ago I took in a female chin. She was very angry or so it seemed at the time, she would kack and squawk and just not want anything to do with me. But, she didn't seem like she was scared of me. I chalked it up to an unsocialized chinchilla. Last night she had what I can only...

Jasper was a special chinchilla. He was full of gentle kindness, he was very sweet and always wanting to be scratched on his chin. Three years ago he was injured in a cage accident with a ladder that shouldn't have been in the cage. His owner back then denied him vet care and took the advice...

2013 wasn't too terrible for chin rescue here, but 2014 has already proven to be much different. I've taken in 17 rescues in January so far. It isn't a big deal to take them in if they are young and healthy but some aren't young or healthy. Or, the previous owners just were unaware of what...

Does this little girl's ears look really huge? I don't know what happened, her mama and daddy both have normal ears. :) Hopefully she will grow into them. :D

I have been contacted by a man wanting white chins in Orange County. Does anyone there have any whites available? I have a pink white boy that he would like, but with shipping and everything I don't know if it would be worth it to send a chin to CA. It's always so much easier on people to be...

My next delivery trip to Phoenix for supplies and chins is on January 4th - that's this Saturday. (I come up for deliveries the first Saturday of each month.) If orders are placed before 6 pm on Thursday (January 2nd), they will be delivered on the 4th when I am in the Phoenix area (this...

Lately I have talked to several people, who have lost chins within weeks of adopting their pet chins from Petsmart. It seems like they are having more deaths lately than normal. Is this something that is just going on in Arizona or does it seem like there are more problems with chins from...

Lately I have heard many people in emails, online, in person and in phone calls that they have chinchillas that they put together because either they believe or were told that the animals were too old to breed. It's true that most older females (starting somewhere around 8 or 9 years old) may...

I had a baby born on Sunday. I wasn't expecting her mother to deliver for another few weeks, but now I am glad she had the little girl earlier. The baby was 81 grams and she's just huge! It isn't really the weight of this kit, it's the fact that she is just a large baby. She looks like a two...

In 1997 my husband and I were introduced to the wonderful world of chinchillas. It's been 15 years this month! It is so hard to believe it has been so long. We started with one little chinchilla and now I have 254 in my care. Happy Chinniversary to me!:D I know that there have been other...

A couple nights ago I received a phone call from a man wanting a "male" chinchilla for his female. A female that in his words was purchased because it was being neglected at a petstore. I tried to tell him that breeding a chin wasn't a good idea because it could be expensive, he didn't know if...

Today I put one of the babies back in to see his parents, he seemed lonely since I have been working on getting him weaned this week. He's going to his new home tomorrow so I try a week before they go to new homes to start taking them away from their mommas. He got back in the cage and the...

What do you do when you have a friend that is very very sick and you can't do anything to help her? I have a friend that I have known for years and she is very ill with some serious problems. I worry about her every day, but I feel like there is so little I can do to help her out. It's...

I hope that any of the chin owners in Arizona are keeping cool today. It's really hot for mid-April. Normal temperatures are in the low 80s...and I suspect it may have gotten up over 100°F today in Tucson and Phoenix. At my house it would normally be maybe 75 to 80ish today and it's well over...

I don't know if you all have seen this, so here's a link to the video http://gma.yahoo.com/video/pets-26594274/giant-george-great-dane-is-world-s-tallest-dog-28944351.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fpets-26594274%252Fgiant-george-great-dane-is-world-s-tallest-dog-28944351.html I am so glad to have...

Several times a year I get a phone call that is about the same. Someone has found a "baby chinchilla" in their yard, house or that has been attacked by cats, they need my help in caring for it and no one else can help. Either they take pictures or bring it to me or I go to see it. And, when I...