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Tealie
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My moms been wanting a chinchilla for oh....18 years now?
Well a girl at school is going away to school and needed homes...and I went up on the offer as quick as it was given.
I nor my mother don't know much, other than food, water and lots of chew toys.
I currently have two rabbits and three rats, which all use shredded newspaper bedding; can Chinchillas do this as well? My rats can't have normal wood chips, and stealing my grandfathers newspapers and shredding them is much cheaper than buying expensive paper bedding.
The cage the girl gave her to me in, is a typical ferret cage, in fact I have one of my rabbits in one. I saw on here people say take the plastic ramps and shelving out and replace it with wooden shelving, well...I can't exactly do that soon. I did take the ramps out. Should I take the shelving out until I can get more wooden shelving (after typing that I realized I should)? And what type of wood can I use? And where do I get it?
The girl actually had a floor to ceiling cage in her room with all wooden shelving, it was all hand made and amazing....makes me wonder why this little girl had a ferret cage.
Also I have some yogurt treats and chinchilla treats she came with. Are Standard pet store treats a no-no?
I can't tell if she's drank much, I was told her bottle dripped a lot, being a glass and metal chew proof bottle, I assume it would drip.
It doesn't look like she's eaten much either...is this all nervousness of being in a new home?
It's hot as anything here, and we don't have very good a/c, so she's in my basement and I stuck a thermometer down there, it read perfectly at 70 degrees (Fahrenheit) do they need to be colder?
...I think that's all my questions I couldn't find.
Well a girl at school is going away to school and needed homes...and I went up on the offer as quick as it was given.
I nor my mother don't know much, other than food, water and lots of chew toys.
I currently have two rabbits and three rats, which all use shredded newspaper bedding; can Chinchillas do this as well? My rats can't have normal wood chips, and stealing my grandfathers newspapers and shredding them is much cheaper than buying expensive paper bedding.
The cage the girl gave her to me in, is a typical ferret cage, in fact I have one of my rabbits in one. I saw on here people say take the plastic ramps and shelving out and replace it with wooden shelving, well...I can't exactly do that soon. I did take the ramps out. Should I take the shelving out until I can get more wooden shelving (after typing that I realized I should)? And what type of wood can I use? And where do I get it?
The girl actually had a floor to ceiling cage in her room with all wooden shelving, it was all hand made and amazing....makes me wonder why this little girl had a ferret cage.
Also I have some yogurt treats and chinchilla treats she came with. Are Standard pet store treats a no-no?
I can't tell if she's drank much, I was told her bottle dripped a lot, being a glass and metal chew proof bottle, I assume it would drip.
It doesn't look like she's eaten much either...is this all nervousness of being in a new home?
It's hot as anything here, and we don't have very good a/c, so she's in my basement and I stuck a thermometer down there, it read perfectly at 70 degrees (Fahrenheit) do they need to be colder?
...I think that's all my questions I couldn't find.