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I've been observing that my female chinchilla likes to mount my male chinchilla. What is this suppose to mean? I can only assume it's an act of dominance?

I have a WINDOWLESS room at home and am thinking about whether I can place my chinchilla in it. I am wondering whether natural light/sunlight is required for them to grow and live heathily? Or is it just fine to switch on the room light in the evening when they are most active? *I am aware...

My chin seems to have abnormally large testicles. They hang normally and not sucked in like how some nervous chins may behave. In addition, his testicles are always exposed. Is that alright? FYI: His behaviour, appetite and what not are all normal. Temperature of the room is also cool. Here...

Found a dropped whiskers in my chin's house and he was keen on eating it. Anyone know if it's okay for the chin to consume it?

Was wondering, is there a need to clean the inside of a chinchilla's ears?

Is there a possibility of a chin losing weight if it was shifted from a small to big cage?

I recently purchased this product on amazon and when I put it in my chin's cage, he kept biting the fleece part of the product. How can I prevent such a behaviour? Is it okay for them to ingest fleece? My chin has been exposed to fleece before as I use fleece for his cage bedding. He does not...

Hi all, I'll be travelling to UK in Dec and am wondering if there are any recommended pet stores that sell chinchillas (just to see more varieties of them as it's quite limited in Singapore) and chinchilla supplies? I'll be going to London, Edinburg and York. Do let me know!! Would really like...

So I feed my chin the same diet every single day. What I notice is that his poop is bigger in the night and smaller in the day. What's that about? And by smaller I mean half the size of the big poop.

Do some chins just like to sleep on the cage floor rather than in hideouts? Mine in particular loves the floor and sleeps sideways regardless of temperature of the room or the many hideouts I provide him with.

My chin is a TOV Mosaic. I have noticed that the colour of his soles are one black (I thought it was dirt but it isn't) and one pinkish in colour. Is that perfectly normal or is there a standardized colour for all chins?

I use peewee for my pee pan and Gary likes to stand inside the pan and start digging the peewee at the corners of the pan. Anyone has seen similar behaviour and is it anything to be concerned about?

I provide apple sticks for my chin as a chew toy. He seems to eat some parts of it. (Both the exterior of the stickand the stick itself) Is that okay?

Hi, so I've read from this thread that chinchillas can smile. Just curious as to how they will look like when they smile. So anyone with photos could you please post it up?

Just wondering, how many of you guys have hamsters as pets too? And if you have hamsters, what are the colours of your hamsters?

It's humid here in Singapore so I try and sand bath my chin on a daily basis at a fixed timing of around 7-8pm. Sometimes he would immediately start bathing himself but after that for the next couple of days, he would just enter the bathing container and stone there. Could this be that he...

Gary was born on the 23 Feb of this year. I just got him from a local pet store one week ago and it's only until I brought him home that I realised his hands seem to have some defect compared to my previous chin. Is this a defect or are his hands still growing? If it is a defect, what could have...

What are the symptoms of kidney stones and what will happen to the chin if it isn't discovered and rectify in time?

Hello. I'm here to introduce you to my new chin, Gary! He's about 4 months old now so I'm housing him in this cage for now. When he gets older and is more confident jumping about, I'll be shifting him to the cage that I've made which can be seen in the background. I'm also toilet training...

This guy here likes to droop his head while staying inside the house. Sometimes it last for awhile. Sometimes he stones there in this position for quite a while. Is it fine? Or should I remove the house?