Petsmart chin

[Corgi Chins n Coons]

I'm new here (hi!). A few weeks ago our guinea pig of 6 years passed away and I was pretty bummed, and my boyfriend tried to cheer me up my surprising me with a nice double critter nation cage and a female chinchilla- from petsmart :-/ I love him for the gesture, but I'm not a huge fan of pets from pet stores. So I decided that I needed a friend of our petsmart chin (Betty) and I found a breeder and brought home Annie yesterday. She is GORGEOUS and friendly and has amazing velvet fur. Now that I have the 2 to compare, I can see how much healthier and livelier the well bred chin (Annie) is.

Is there anything I can do to help the petsmart chin get that healthy? I have them in oxbow food and hay, which I doubt petsmart chin (Betty) was on before.

Any supplements? Any signs of declining healthy I should watch for? This morning she let us pet her, which is the first time - my bf thought that was great, but it made me worrry...maybe paranoid. We had been working to bind with her, maybe it paid off.

Thanks guys!

 

[mknoblich1]

Good hay, pellets, and good water are all a typical chin needs to be healthy. You should get a kitchen scale that weighs in grams so you can track their weight and make sure they are both gaining. Also, if you haven't introduced them already don't. You should quarantine a new chin for 30 days to make sure they are not sick. If one of the chins is sick it may not show up for a while then you will wind up with two sick chins if they are already together.