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The only place around my house that carries Mazuri has been out of it for a few days, so I have been just doubling up on hay. They said they would restock it today, but there is still no Mazuri. Is it ok if I feed him a different food for a few more days until they restock the regular food or is...

My chinchilla keeps chewing the wood door and the wood trim of my room where I let him out. He has plenty of wood and toys to chew on, but he persists. He also chews on the plastic baby gate that I use to block him from roing to the rest of the house. Any idea on how to stop this? Is there a...

So I'm not sure where to post this but I guess it has something to do with behavior. My chinchilla pees up on this skinny bridge and his pee drips down and hits another shelf and then it spills over the edge and it lands on the carpet. Obviously i don't want it on the carpet so is there a. A...

My chinnie has these poofed out fur spots, three of them, and I know they do that when they're scared, but he's not scared. Is it like the season to do that or something? Thanks in advance!

Today i noticed a little bit of dried blood on one of my boy's shelves. His foot is bloody, but it doesn't effect him. He continues to run around and stuff. I'm wondering what i should do. I think its dry skin or a cut, should i wash it out? Thanks.

I came home today and saw a brown liquid on his wheel. Im pretty sure its diarrhea, could it be something else? The rest of his poops on his shelves and what not are solid, and normal...Could it be stress, because I just upgraded his cage? Please help, thanks

My food dish is about 2 1/2 inches tall and i usually fill it up all the way, but its kind of a waste of food when i have to dump it out, wash it out, and refill it, so currently im filling it up halfway, is this what you guys do? and how many ounces should he be eating a day? Also should i...

I am going on vacation so i am leaving my chinchilla with my dad. He has all his stuff, but I'm afraid that he will be super frightened from the move and he will lose my trust. I'll only be gone for 6 days, but i'm still worried he'll be all freaked out once i take him back to his regular home.

Ok so my boy lost his brother when he was around 1 and that was around 2 years ago. Do you think hes lonely and need a friend to hang around with? He's if you did the math lol is 3, but can get a little snippy at night, even though he has become more comfortable, he still sometimes charges, i...

i have a hibiscus where my chin runs around and he loves to annoy me and go up onto the pot every 2 minutes and try to eat some of the dried leaves that fell from it. He really seems to like it, since he goes up onto the pot alot, so i was wondering if hibiscus leaves are bad for chinchillas? Is...

Ok so i walked into my room today and my chin was, what it looked like, chewing or nibbling on his fur in a specific spot for a few seconds. No fur was popping off or anything, but im just wondering. Ive seen him do this a few times. I don't know if i'm being paranoid, but i might as well ask.

Ok so i have a special for yall three questions in ONE thread! ok so my first one is about quarantining. As Im hoping for another chin and a ferret nation for Christmas i was wondering, because i wanna baby, if you could wash down my old cage, which is half the size of a fn, and introduce the...

My friend wants a chinchilla and i don't really know what they need to know. Do any of you know if there is a test that someone can take to know if they're ready for a chinchilla. If there isn't someone should definitely try to make one. Maybe one for each topic. Are you ready to breed. Are you...

I just ran out of Mazuri and the only thing the store had was a different pellet.They said they should get some soon so Should i feed the chinchilla it and then tommorrow go get mazuri or just give him a bunch of hay and forget pellets for a day?

hi, my chinchilla is let out for an hour- an hour and a half. After he goes into his cage- which is usually around 9 or 10- he goes onto a shelf and lays there like a big poof ball and you can't see his legs, and then after a couple minutes he gets up runs around alittle bit and seems pretty...

My male chinchilla, i have noticed, right around his privates are all yellow and wet. His shelf that he likes is wet, he sits there all the time so i dont know if hes just been sitting in his pee or something else. His penis can touch the shelf so.. I dont know if that helps but whats wrong with...

I was wondering if anyone has ever bought or heard about this website http://www.farmerdave.biz/servlet/the-41/Bird-Apple-Branch-Perch/Detail It says the branches are for guinea pigs and chinchillas, but i dont know if its safe thanks:)

surviving disaster is one of the best shows ive ever seen, any of you seen it? :)

My chinchilla has had these fur things sticking out of his fur, one out of his head, makes him look like a unicorn, if you could imagine it, one by his but, tiny but looks the same, and has a little puff of fur coming out of his left side of his stomach. i dont know if it got stuck on something...

mic Sans MS"]Hi, so i am thinking of getting an FN 142. and i will be buying several fleece liners and tubes and houses, the works, so my questions are do chinchillas always like fleece? also does the FN142 have a pan to hold the poop and stuff? because on every forum i here people saying " i...