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Thank you, all very much for your responses! They have been very helpful. Both my chins are fairly well mannered and my roommate lives down the hall so I think we are going to go ahead with the adoption. Their cage is in my room which means that any fighting can be dealt with swiftly. Besides, I...

I live in a duplex with a friend of mine and she is interested in adopting a female chinchilla. We discussed it and are both worried that a female presence might cause trouble with my two males (who are both unaltered). If they are housed in separate rooms and never see one another, is it safe...

I seem to see the terms 'tan' and 'pastel' used synonymously; pastel being the term for the lighter chins of the tan coloring, as I understand it. I would love if anyone could clarify the distinction between them if there is one. I also see a lot of chins lately with the tan solid wrapping, red...

I would imagine it is helpful to employ a specific tone when you use certain words. Many animals can't discern much from human language, but nearly all animals seem to distinguish good, bad or neutral context from the type of sound used. When I chastise my boys for chewing on the molding, I try...

It's very interesting to see how the species diet must have changed with the environment that, quite literally, sprung up from underneath them. Cool to think that they lived on some of the first grasslands, too. What a great post! And thank you, Claire D, for the paper.

Lately I have been searching for a good source of information that has made its way to print. Yet, I have only found dated and antiquated information on the species in captivity and much of it comes as brief excerpts from considerably larger texts. My question is, has anyone found a good book on...

Anybody with tile floors: pictures please!

Edgar is the dark standard grey and the little guy with the pastel coat is Henry.

Nice! That is quite the set-up you have there, Newt. My chins and I are jealous.