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Has anyone ever done a DIY addition of cutting out a piece of wood and adding a vent to a wood cage? The cage only has 1 side with a wire door and I'd to add maybe a top or a back vent as well to get more airflow, as I'd imagine it gets more smelly in there after 2 or 3 days. The options I can...

Haven't seen this anywhere, but what diseases are communicable between chinchillas and humans? I remember someone saying the common cold and flu viruses can go from humans to chins... anything else? And if a chinchilla bites or scratches someone with its paws hard enough to draw blood, or if...

Would this be feasible? My pet chins are housed in cages with wire mesh bottoms right now... I'm wondering if instead of using wood shavings in the pan to absorb the urine, what if I just filled the pan with dirt and grass seed, or some other kind of plant? It'd be low enough that the chins...

Hi all, Let me intro myself first since I guess I never really did that yet... my name is Jon, and I used to be a member of C&Q before that site died. I've been keeping chins since 2006 I think and used to be in the Midwest, in Chicago and St. Louis area, starting from my first pet store chin...

Hi all, Hope you all can help me with some feed questions for my chinchillas. I'm currently in China right now... We actually can get Oxbow and Mazuri chin food here. They sell it for about $25 USD for a 10lb bag, and while we try to get it whenever it's available, it's out of stock online and...

Never seen this so far on the US Chinchilla forums before, but this is a really popular method that people in China use to keep their chins from dying in the summer time when AC is not available. It's a DIY project that involves building or modifying a chin house by adding a Peltier cooler to...

Hey everyone... hoping to get some advice on a chin who has teeth issues, and not really sure what to do about it. I currently took in a Black Velvet chin who was kept in quite poor conditions previously. When we got her, the fur was a terrible mess with matted fur all over that we had to cut...