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Yikes, sadly most of that is unfortunately not healthy for chins at all and can make your chins very sick and shorten their lives. The Charlie chinchilla food is one of the worst chinchilla foods on the market, the peas, corn (maize) and carrots are all very bad for them even as treats...

Yeah treats are best limited to just a few healthy treats a week, the breeder hopefully already told you but most treats sold in pet stores are unfortunately not healthy. They should not have fruits, veggies, seeds (hay seeds don't count), nuts, or sugars, and grains should be limited since they...

The personalities of chins can vary as much as humans, so you can get outgoing ones, skittish ones, brave ones, and everything in between. The affectionate chins tend to be the exception, they are prey animals that really haven't been domesticated for long (about 100 years and in the pet world...

I think in this case I would decided based on if you personally want another chin. Especially since Wally never bonded with Hershey it's not like he lost a cage mate. Also chins normally live an average of 15-20 years, but it does depend on care (diet, environment, etc) as well as genetics, just...

If you want to know what chinchillas really eat in the wild here is info based on an actual scientific study done of the poops of wild chins. https://www.chincare.com/what-do-wild-chinchillas-eat-research/ Here is the link to the paper (translated into English) if you want to read it...

Sadly that is yet another site with a lot of bad info, that is including the very stupid idea of putting apple juice on the hay. 🤬 I'm guessing it was written by a little kid that did very basic research on google or possibly just an idiot. One of the sites that they claim at the bottom of the...

The issue I see with no house or hideout is not them being too cold (17-18C isn't cold), it's that chins naturally sleep in rock crevices where it's dark as well as feel protected from danger. I really wouldn't worry too much about them getting cold until it's below about 10C, or if your chin is...

The issues with too much sugar is more then just obesity, it can also cause tooth decay, diabetes, and digestive issues (sugar feeds the bad bacteria in the gut). You could try other kinds of chews though, as well as different chew sticks everyday, many chins love apple wood for example, but...

The benefits of pumice are they help file the front teeth and some chins like to chew it up and roll in the dust created (so a mini dust bath), and if you get the ledges and they jump on them it can help file their nails a bit. Pumice is probably the least helpful for molar wear though, since...

That's too bad, assuming she wasn't injured it sounds like genetic malo, you normally see signs by the time the chin is around two. I would keep in mind that getting tooth trims is just delaying the inevitable, but if there is no root involvement yet and she recovers quickly after each trimming...

Definitely need to see the vet, but I would stop with the apple juice, it can cause a lot more harm then good, chins are not designed to handle that much sugar it can cause all kinds of gut issues (including gas and bloat which can cause the poop to be small) and can even kill them. It sounds...

To me it kind of just looks like possibly burst blood veils, likely from hitting his ear on something. As you said, kits are clumsy so they do commonly get bumps and bruises, just like a little kid, it's just more obvious on chins with pink ears since the lack of pigment allows you to more...

Since puberty for chins starts around 4-6 month and go until about a year, if it just started then I doubt it's puberty. More likely it's something that has happened or changed. The most common reason for sudden change if nothing has happened (they didn't do anything to them, and no new pets or...

I'm so sorry, that was not the outcome I was hoping to hear. If it helps at all, since she is young, I would think it's more likely genetic malo, so nothing you did or could have done different to prevent it (unless of course it's a chin you personally bred). I would give the pain meds more...

You say she has never had teeth issues ever, so when was her last dental exam? Unfortunately chins are good at hiding issues so you may not notice until it's gotten so bad they can't hide it. Even if she was seen a year ago when she stopped eating hay, it may not have been that bad for the vet...

I don't have any experience with that, but I have read chins can recover from a broken pelvis if everything is aligned and they take it easy long enough to heal. I would try to get her through until the next check, you may need to force feed several small meals a day (every few hours) if not...

I've never seen that personally, but I do know cataracts are fairly common in older chins. I'm not sure about it appearing to shrink and grow from day to night, but cataracts are normally painless. Glaucoma is normally pretty painful though and I'm not a vet or an expert or anything but I would...

Both are the same grass hay plant, timothy, "Western" and "Eastern" simply specifies where in North America it's grown. Where they are grown does make a difference in quality of the hay, Western North America (more specifically Midwest where you see all the big farms) naturally has the best...

I don't, but according to their website's list of things they don't cover https://www.petinsurance.com/whats-not-covered/ it's not surprising heart murmurs would not be covered. I would definitely contact the breeder if you haven't already though. I know you didn't ask but I also know that...

Yeah, the oral meds you might want to talk to your vet about how long those are suppose to be given, I think those might only be given for 2-4 weeks. Also to be clear I'm just going by what I've read not personal experience, the treatment is normally 4-6 weeks (could be longer or shorter...