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That's what my chin says and I wonder: Am I the only one to have a hay hater? And it is not the quality of the hay, I must say, because I have tried everything, including a box that woudl have paid for a romantic weekend in the Orient Express. It is not how it is served, either: tried racks...

Apologies if I did not express myself correctly; I did not mean to say that one can train a chinchilla and leave it unsupervised. The No! command I mentioned is useful to stop a problem behavior while it is taking place but I would not leave my chin unsupervised in a room any more than I would...

I am not a chin expert but believe that chins can be trained, at least to a certain extent, because although they are ludicrously intelligent they are most of all self willed and mischievous, and they would do the wrong thing just out of mischief. I say this because I have a chin that I got as...

I have a similar problem as my exotics vet is 1 hour away. On top, my chin is pretty wild and a demolition machine, but despite all that I found out that a small plastic carrier does the job beautifully. My chin has a go at the carrier when I just put him in but when I say 'no' (he knows the...

I was looking at your avatar: is your lovely chin a homozygous beige or a wrap tan?

I have pretty wild chin and if he managed to get clicker trained, it is very likely that a more amenable one can get trained too. I limited the training to getting him into his cage and his carrier. The cage was peremptory, in case I needed him back in within the two hours in which he is...

My chin developed a similar bald patch. I took him to the exotics vet and after spending nearly £100 ($130) in a culture to completely rule out dermatophytes (there were no obvious signs), I was told the patch is due to furch chewing caused by stress. Which makes sense, since recently we got in...

Five days ago I noticed a long and narrow (0.4cm x 2.5cm) bald strip on top of my rescue boy's tail. I had him for two years and sometimes in January and February he does a bit of barbering on his haunches but it is always a minute patch and a very superficial one at that. I may be wrong but...

I also have a rescue who though that hay was made of tiny snakes that were there to get him. Since he loves rolled oats I got him oat hay, which was marginally more interesting but still kinda nyah. Then I had a brainwave: every night I give him 1/4 willow stick tied to a loop as a chew (if...