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So a little story time: I've been using good ol' Oxbow chinchilla food for 2 years now...however, I've recently discovered that my mother bought some off-brand "premium chinchilla food" and I didn't realize this until I just finished out all the Oxbow. There's no way to return it now since it's...

During playtime, they love to crawl all over me and they don't mind it when I touch or pet them. I have picked them up before, but only when I had to (escapes and such)...They would sit in my hands for only a minute before they would start wiggling...I would really like to hold them more, but...

As summertime approaches, I've been trying all I can to keep my chinchi's cool...The temperature in my/their room has been around 65-75F these past few days. I turned the ceiling fan on a few days ago, which seemed to help keep things regulated....but it feels really warm and humid in my room...

I found some vomit (or what I think is vomit) in my chinchilla's food bowl...It was a bunch of sticky, clumped up, partially chewed pellets with some weird vomit looking substance im the middle. They both act normal, and their feces look normal also. I feed them Oxbow plain pellets (no mixes or...

At some point in the near future, I will have to move my dear chinnies out from my bedroom into a cooler part of the house simply because it gets too hot in my bedroom during the summer. The room I plan to move them into, however, is where my cat dwells. My cat is an old fatty, but he still...

My chins have been chasing each other around the cage since the time they settled in...I never thought much about it. I assumed they were playing...It recently became aware to me that this might be "fighting"....I've never seen chinchillas fight before, so I thought I'd check with you guys just...

I've had my chins for several months now, but it just occurred to me... What is the proper height for their water bottle? At first, my chins could be on all fours and drink from it. Now that they've gotten bigger I decided I should move it up. I remember reading somewhere that chins should...

Last night, I heard one of my chins make (or what sounded like) a painful squeal. I briefly checked them both out and neither of them looked injured. They were both on different levels of the cage so I don't think they got in a fight.... Then all throughout the night i hear one chin kept making...

Whenever I give my chins a apple wood coin,(or any large "hard-to finish-in-one-day" chew toy) they'll chew on it for a night and then get bored with it. If I offer them a new one they'll take it and do the same routine, but if I offer them an older unfinished one they scoff at it... I'm sure...

Today I woke up to two large bumps under my chin's fleece bedding...After a few pokes at the lumps, my chins peeked their noses out from the edge of the fleece blanket. So I escorted them out and tucked it back under the platform (I didn't want them to over-heat!) but a few minutes later they...

This will be my first christmas with my chins. So I made them both mini chin-sized stockings! However, I'm clueless of what to put in it! I know this might be a silly question but...Any ideas? Pippin will be turning 5 months in about a week...I figured it might be great to give him his very...

I have two chins, Merry & Pippin. Pippin is my little buddy, we bonded really fast; but when I try bonding with Merry, Pippin will always get jealous and chase him off. Because of this, Merry is still nervous around people and always hides when I walk in the room...Any ideas how I can bond with...

I keep my chins in my bedroom, which stays moderately cold during fall and winter (around 50-60 during the day). At night, the temperature drops really low. I'm not too concerned about them getting frozen, but I'm curious to know....How cold is too cold? Is it even possible for a chinchilla to...

I'm afraid that my chinchillas foot (toe, to be more specific) might be broken! :( My mother was feeling independent to take my chinchilla to the bathroom to play, on her own; but she doesn't like to hold him..so she let him jump in a cat carrier and...I wasn't in the room so i don't have the...