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Loved the photo of Ellie with her head in the jar. What is with chins and jars? My boy loves that to the point it has become a ritual: playtime can only end with him sticking his head into the rose petal jar. If I do not offer it, he stubbornly sits on my lap harrumphing until I do. One...

Totally agree with Amethyst. Those people are lucky that you are polite because in your place I would have been too tempted to ask what they have been smoking or whether their knowledge of chins comes from those TikTok clips showing chins in hats. My rescue boy is so placid that one can get his...

Great idea: one could also 'inject' a goji berry, which being small is more likely to be wolfed down. Or a small rosehip, with the seeds out. Now that I think of it my boy woudl not object to a syringe made of wall paper. Maybe I should patent the idea, as I seem to remember he is not the only...

Many thanks, Saffron. The medicine came with a syringe but since I was on my own, after I spilled the content using the syringe I tried with the dropper, with similar results. Hope he does not need to take medication any time soon but if, then I shall try the side of his mouth, because like your...

Sunday night my boy tried one of his kamikaze runs and got hurt. He could still run and there was no blood in his nose or mouth but he tried to hide, sure sign he was in pain. Afraid that he could have a broken rib or another non-obvious injury, I took him to the hideously expensive (five times...

Many thanks for the replies. The chin god must have en eye on this forum because small as our chin grapevine is, we found someone with a female who lost her cage companion two months ago and was pinning. Perfect. And I put out a word that I am looking for a non-dominant male as a companion for...

Last year I made a good batch of sticks with twigs collected in early November, before the dreaded lichens and mosses settled on them. The advantage of that is that after boiling one can let them dry for a while in a vase next to a radiator, before starting the more serious drying in the oven...

I was asked whether I could take on a female chinchilla that the owner (who inherited her from a relative) cannot take proper care of. In fact the poor girl has not been out of her cage for six months and needs a new home ASAP. Problem is I have a boy, so the chins would have to live in separate...

No Stockhausen's Helikopter-Streichquartett for your chins, then, as it is likely to set a world's first: chinchillas huddling together, desperately trying to use their paws to close their ears. I used the quartet against a noisy neighbour once and it did the deed on the spot. Better still, one...

Yes, 75% of the mesh is covered with large tiles and the loo (the bowl with the stone )+ a ramp cover a most of the rest, so he never has to walk on the bare mesh. Also, he seems to believe he was a famous mountaineer or an alpine goat in a former life, so he is always to be found on the...

I read that their natural habitat is full of lose stones so I decided to do an experiment and put the bowl with the stone exactly in the corner he had chosen as a pee place. No need of training: he did it on his own. I must add that that 75% the cage's floor is covered with tiles to protect the...

My total fav, because I learned a lot from it, is Ally's animal antics The owner has been breeding chins for, if my memory serves me well, twenty years or so and she is as knowledgeable as she is sympathetic to puzzled chin's parents. She must be doing something right because she always has...

So my boy is not the only one 3:00 am barker! As you said, he may be calling for attention or having unpleasant dreams. Chins' motto: When in doubt, bark; it brings the humans running.

I am not a chin expert but my first chin, a rescue male, started to chew his tail at a time there was a great deal of overhead impact noise. Like you I took him to the vet, got tests done and the conclusion was it was just stress. At loss as to what do (the vet did not recommend anything) I...

I had a good laugh and while at it something crossed my mind: remember those legends in children's books e.g. how the jaguar got its spots? Here is the legend of Why some chins bark-a-ton. One fine summer day Tune's chins were looking out of the window and one of them turned to the others...

My rescue boy is, considering the circumstances, a remarkably well adjusted chin: affectionate, smart and to all appearances, a happy little soul. What baffles me is that he only seems to have one sound in his voice, box, the alarm call, which occurs rather frequently when he is asleep. Not once...

Many thanks: that is good to know. JohhnyBishop directed me to an UK maker of metal wheels that are much more reasonably priced than the US made ones I saw for sale, probably because, mad as it sounds, in anything from the US these days, 60% of the cost is postage + customs. My boy gets a...

And you were lucky with that price; I have seen much worse. During lockdown my usual provider disappeared from the market and the only one I found was soooo pricey that when the sticks arrived I looked at the label expecting to see something epic that justified it, of the caliber of 'Product of...

I hope I did not alarm you; I only mentioned the humidity because it was a mistake I made with my other chin and it took me a while to find out what the problem was. The thing is that instead of doing the smart thing i.e. getting right away into a forum, as you did, I tried to learn about...

Makes an awful lot of sense; if someone did not do wheelies with a BMX as a teenager til will not start when planning a career at Coulter's Makes an awful lot of sense too; in fact that was the image I got in my mind when you mentioned electricity (having seen them on roofs in countries without...