ElliesMama
Chinchilla Mama
Ellie is a 2 year old chinchilla and I have had her since she was 2 months old.
She is a very loving chinchilla and has always been well behaved when in her cage. She makes the typical amount of noise and gets into mischievous here and there, but nothing out of the ordinary. Then, at the beginning of December she started acting much differently when in her cage.
These are the new behaviors:
- chewing, digging, burrowing in her fleece
- chewing on her cage bars
- destroying toys and ripping them from their hooks (more aggressively than usual)
- peeing in her food dish and on her ledges
- tipping over food bowl
- chattering teeth for no reason (usually when she is laying down relaxed)
She still gets let out of her cage for at least 45 minutes a day and gets the same amount of love and attention. She always has toys, food, hay, and water. I even bought her new toys, thinking she was bored and that still did not change anything.
Basically, she has turned into a Tasmania devil when she is in her cage and I don't understand what happened. At first I thought she was in heat, but this has been constant behavior for over 20 days.
Has anyone else had a similar experience with their chin(s)? Any ideas on what may be causing this?
She is a very loving chinchilla and has always been well behaved when in her cage. She makes the typical amount of noise and gets into mischievous here and there, but nothing out of the ordinary. Then, at the beginning of December she started acting much differently when in her cage.
These are the new behaviors:
- chewing, digging, burrowing in her fleece
- chewing on her cage bars
- destroying toys and ripping them from their hooks (more aggressively than usual)
- peeing in her food dish and on her ledges
- tipping over food bowl
- chattering teeth for no reason (usually when she is laying down relaxed)
She still gets let out of her cage for at least 45 minutes a day and gets the same amount of love and attention. She always has toys, food, hay, and water. I even bought her new toys, thinking she was bored and that still did not change anything.
Basically, she has turned into a Tasmania devil when she is in her cage and I don't understand what happened. At first I thought she was in heat, but this has been constant behavior for over 20 days.
Has anyone else had a similar experience with their chin(s)? Any ideas on what may be causing this?
