OK let me give you the details on my moment of panic posting.
I got called into work so I asked my husband to do some errands for me which included picking up a used cage, he wanted to be sweet and have it set up for me when I got home, even though I told him I wanted to clean it.
So came home around 1am, he had put the cage together and put the white male chinchilla that I have to have a run around. There were tiny leaves in the otherwise spotless cage, seller did a wonderful job, a small amount of brush had pinched itself in the wire and my love just didn't see it.
I don't think the chinchilla was in the cage for more then an hour, I took the chinchilla out as soon as I got home, it's throat was wet and it was acting very strange, then I took a 2nd look at the plant material and realized what it was. Called the vet, office was closed. It's late, I'm on a 7 day streak of 9 hour shifts, can't see the vet for 9 hours, I don't even know if the chinchilla ate the plant.
This was when I posted, gave the chinchilla fresh water and hay, cleaned and set up the new cage, got the call back from the vet, slept, and got up to drive an hour to be told he's fine.
Later on it came out that my love had taken the chinchilla to a house with a cat, so the behavior that I thought was pain or "that chin seems messed up", was him just being scared out of his poor chinney mind. As well being put in a big new scary place, that got wet being brought in, which was why his underside was wet, I mistook for drooling.
I have a wonderful vet, but they are a drive.
The chinchilla is fine, if not still diving at the bars to bite anyone that walks by.