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I'm looking for custom length log bridges (unsure if that's the term commonly used). I've looked online, and options seem slim. Does anyone here make them or know where I might order them?

My girlfriend just had our chin Lily out for some attention and suddenly had a smear of blood on her arm. We took at look at Lily and she had significant amount of blood coming from either her rectum or her vaginal opening. We immediately put the chin in a carry cage and my girlfriend left for...

We just noticed that our beige girl's ears were very bright pink/red, with much more color than usual (looking like they were seeing a bit more circulation). I put my finger through the cage bars and they felt slightly warm to the touch. When I went to pick her up, she darted around the cage...

One of my chins has had a sudden and pronounced increase in chewing wood. She was already a healthy chewer, but now she is just decimating every stick/block/toy that I give her. Is it normal for this chewing behavior to fluctuate, or is this something about which I should be concerned? Her...

One of my chinchillas has what I would describe as an abnormally potent urine smell coming from her cage/bedding. I change all of the cage bedding regularly, and neither of the other two chins/cages has a smell even close to this one. I thought it might be the litter pan itself, so I scrubbed...

I know that nipple size is an indicator of late-stage pregnancy, but I don't know what a chin's nipples are supposed to look like in a normal state. Lily, my 8-month old female, has nipples so small that I can barely find them. When I blow into her fur, I can find the tiniest little dots that...

I thought you guys might enjoy these, especially the one of Lily using her ledge as a pillow.

I brought home a 3-month-old male a few days ago, but I am not entirely sure how to classify his color. I found him through Craigslist (always interesting...), where he was described as 'silver.' Now that I have him, I'd say silver/mosaic isn't accurate. (His mother was a mosaic and his...

This situation has already been resolved, but I thought I would share this with you. A few hours ago, I heard what sounded like my chins fighting. Since they only recently have been easing into being cagemates, I was quite worried (they only spend a few hours a day caged together at the...

Hey all, I have a question about your cage preferences. If you have space and budget limitations and simply can't get an enormous chin cage, which dimension would you sacrifice to preserve the other(s)? Would you get a taller cage with less width, or a wider cage with less depth? My initial...

Hi all, I was wondering if any of you know if pregnant chins can suffer any additional (or worse) effects of stress than they normally would. I ask because, while my chins are now much better adjusted to my new apartment, they are clearly bothered sometimes by a yowling dog down the hall. One...

Chance passed away last week of complications from internal bleeding from a still unknown cause (some of you may have seen Stacey's post about this on my behalf). He was a joy to have in my life, albeit for such a short time. He loved to run up to me, get a good scratch, and dart away again in...

I'm afraid that, in my first few months of "chinparenting," I made the crucial mistake of allowing a male and female to have open playtime together. I was initially under the impression that I could prevent pregnancy by simply stopping mating behavior as it occurred. Since then, I've been...