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  1. dreenbmp

    Moving a chinchilla abroad

    Hello! Me and my wife are looking to move to new Zealand within the next 4 years. We have two chinchillas, we love them to death. We know airlines wont allow them in the cabin, but we've heard of special airlines that cater to exotics and will ship them. We really want to move to this...
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    Playtime outside the cage

    We've had our chins for about 2 years now and we have recently gotten very busy. We used to be able to let our chins out almost ever night for play time, but now we are down to maybe 2 nights a week...They have the chinchilla mansion cage so they have a lot of room to jump and climb, and a lot...
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    Instagram?

    Does anyone else have an instagram dedicated to just their little fuzzballs? Post your instagram name! Follow mine: @thechinnybrothers
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    Pee...PEE EVERYWHERE!

    So, we have two chins, and one of them (he is younger) we have had him for 6 months, and he is sweet, and friendly. It didn't used to be a problem...But now he pees all the time, everywhere. When we let him out for play time, he will be on the carpet, or in the bathroom he will pee on the tile...
  5. dreenbmp

    Not Drinking From Water Bottle?

    We have two chinchillas (caged together, they get along great). But one has not been able to drink from his bottle since we got him. We have been through 3 different types of bottles. He can't seem to grasp the fact that he needs to press harder for the water to come out..He is young/small, and...
  6. dreenbmp

    Constant humping?

    I recently caged my two chinchillas together; they get a long great, and have not fought once. They are both males. One thing I’m concerned about (And I’m about to get semi graphic) The dominate chinchilla we have is constantly humping our new one, all the time. (Sometimes ejaculating on the...
  7. dreenbmp

    Two chinchillas together

    We just introduced our two chinchillas (both male) together for the first time during play time out of the cage, they did not fight, or make any alarming noises, just a bunch of sniffing (and humping LOL) and running around. but one thing that we could not figure out: Our first chinchilla (he...
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    getting a chinchilla used to being held, and to enjoy being pet

    I came across an Instagram post today with someone that has a chinchilla, he loves being scratched. Someone asked how to get a chinchilla to enjoy being scratched or held....The person who had the instagram account said: "I know it sounds cruel, just grab your chinchilla and don't let go even if...
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    Chinchilla peeing on me.

    So we have recently nursed our sick chinchilla back to health, he is come tell better after a repertory infection, he had this when we bought him. So he hasn't had any play time. He is very young...maybe around 4 months. We have taken him out three times. We have a blocked off section with hard...
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    Why I don't Buy anything from Petsmart or Petco anymore

    Get ready for a long post....Me and my wife consider ourselves to be well educated about chinchilla care. We own 2 chinchillas, both males. Our first chinchilla we got from petco, he has no problems at all. Although we suspected he wasn't very well taken care of. we've had him for about a...
  11. dreenbmp

    The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty.

    Is anyone else as excited as me to see this movie? It kind of nails my life right on the head right now....Boring desk job, I just want to go out and see the world!
  12. dreenbmp

    Yogurt to gain weight?

    We have a very very sick chinchilla...we've already took him to the vet, he has a respiratory infection and is very very under weight. there is a long story of how this happened, and I won't go into it. But the vet gave us antibiotics, we've been using them for 3 days, we've been giving him...
  13. dreenbmp

    Coughing?

    So things have been a little hectic...We've had a big snow storm and haven't been able to take our chin to the vet...It's been exactly a week that we got him...ever since monday he started having diarrhea...that has gone away for the most part, and now it's just soft stool which I know is still...
  14. dreenbmp

    New chin having bad diarrhea!!

    So we bought a new chin on Saturday, the first day he was fine, we left him alone in the cage. The next day he started having dairrhea...so we took away his food (he is on plain Timothy hay pellets) and gave him tons of hay. He eats a lot of it, and he has plenty of water. We haven't givin him...
  15. dreenbmp

    Introducing a new chin to another.

    We just bought a new chin. We have another one that we've owned for about year....We will obviously will get the new chin adjusted to his cage before we move him to the chinchilla mansion with our other chin...However...We put our new chin inside his cage...and let our old one out, and our old...
  16. dreenbmp

    New Chinchilla Help!

    Me and my wife just bought a male Black chinchilla. The chinchilla is very friendly already, and lets us pick him up no problem, he is not scared of us, and if anything seems more relaxed when we are with him (Strange right?) He's eating and drinking just fine... We own another chinchilla, he is...
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