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I'm so sorry, prisskitty. :(

It's amazing to me that just 15 years ago, crested geckos were thought to be extinct! And look at them today. :) Tigger is very pretty -- thanks for sharing!

For one chinchilla, you should definitely be able to go smaller than the cage that he's currently in and still have enough room for him to live comfortably. 34"x34"x36" is quite large. Though it's nice to go for as big a cage as possible, it isn't strictly necessary for a single chin to have an...

Talk to the people who work there, and get an idea of how much they know about the animals. One mark of a "good" pet store is that the employees will be knowledgeable and obviously care about the well-being of the animals.

With a wire-bottom cage, the cecotropes should just fall through the wire. Rabbits really only eat their cecotropes straight from their bodies, so she likely won't eat them once they're on the floor anyway. At least, with a wire floor, she won't be sitting in them and walking on them. Rabbits...

I always pictured the swamp dragons in the book as rather pathetic-looking, homely caricatures of iguanas, with longer necks and little bat-wings. Never occurred to me to compare them to chinchillas (at least, not before now...). However, I agree that that book is hilarious and one of...

I had a Netherland dwarf that had this problem. She had trouble controlling her bladder, and as a result, she would pee on herself. This caused massive problems with her skin around that area. I had to bathe her heiney regularly and I clipped the fur in that area very short, but in the end I had...

I remember seeing little Jell-O molds shaped like Legos and gears and such. That was at least a few years ago now, so I don't know if they'd still be available... but if you could find some of those, you could make Jell-O "jigglers" in those shapes. That could be fun, I think. :)

I have a Facebook page, and I had a MySpace page as well for awhile, but ended up deleting it because I didn't really like MySpace. Facebook is also rather inane, but its an inanity that I can deal with. I don't have a lot of apps, and I'm really selective about my friends -- since your...

The Rabbit Web forum has been around, in some form or another, longer than almost any other rabbit website, and at one time it was considered by many as one of the top 2 or 3 rabbit websites in existence. Its present incarnation is here, though it has died down in recent years. The people there...

You're not going to experience Vitamin D toxicity from being exposed to the sun, even if you're outside all day on a clear day in summer. A chinchilla that lies in a sunny patch for 20 minutes a day? There's absolutely no chance that the vitamin D is going to have negative effects (now, there...

Petsmart and PetCo sell them for $120-$160, depending on their color. Usually Petsmart is at the lower end of that range, while PetCo tends to be at the upper end. There is also a regional chain of stores that have a couple of locations here in town, and they occasionally sell chins. Usually...

I guess these new ToS really suck... if you're an idiot about what you put on Facebook. Personally, I'm not really bothered by it. I don't put up stupid pictures of myself, I don't write notes that I don't want people potentially copying/using as their own, and I don't say things that might get...

Where's the "rabbit" option??

What Bekks said. Although I think it's often ill-advised to post a bunch of stuff about how bad your life currently sucks or how your boyfriend is manipulating you, or what have you, as long as it's not posted in the actual animal-related sections of the forum I don't really have a problem with...

My aunt gave me a horse when I was a senior in high school. I'd always loved horses but didn't have a ton of experience with them. It didn't take me long to realize that "loving horses" isn't good enough when you're faced with caring for one of these animals. They can be unpredictable and...

I'm a graduate student, so I guess that kind of counts, even though it's been years since I lived in a dorm. University of Nebraska, major in Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communication (minor in Animal Science). If not for the dang thesis I'd be done by now (grumble grumble).

I was going to edit my above post, but ran out of time. I wanted to note that, last winter, my old horse (who was 28-29 at the time) lost about 100 pounds over the course of the winter, despite the fact that I was pumping him full of senior feed, mushed up alfalfa cubes and supplementing his...

You can give a horse oil (like corn oil) as a source of fat. It adds pure calories to the diet and it's safe for horses. Studies have shown that a horse can safely be given up to 6 cups of oil per day. I have a 30 year old gelding to whom I've had to give oil in the winter. Also, you definitely...

Fibre3 is being used with a high amount of success and satisfaction by an increasing number of rabbit breeders/exhibitors. I know this doesn't necessarily translate to success with chinchillas, but many rabbit people are more satisfied with Fibre3 than with the Show or Professional formulas. It...