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I have 2 adults that talk constantly, 3 babies who squeak a lot, and then 5 adults who are mostly silent. They bark sometimes and every now and then when you push in to their space too fast they will make unhappy noises but otherwise they don't squeak or anything.

I thought my hedgehogs were bad liner divers... I gave up fixing his burrowing for now. He got the shelf fleece pushed so far to the edge that he decided to work on the tray fleece instead. Now that is piled over the wooden house and food bowl and I think he pulled the twigs I gave him...

I've seen the tradition mentioned before... people actually feed their chinchillas on that junk? It's a bunch of byproducts, questionably digestable leftovers, and there's even animal protein in it. I wouldn't touch that with a 10' pole. The next one is marginally better ingredients wise...

From a friend of Kenko on here. Zip spent the first day hiding under his fleece but when I give him a hayrack and some of km's bluegrass he decided it was worth risking being in the open. He also ate a rosehip. He really doesn't like the dogs but the dogs don't bother the chins so all of the...

I've heard a silver sharpie shows up well on the ear. I haven't had any problems with mine. We got a pair of ebonies and there was a difference in their head shape and one has a thicker body. Then we had 3 kits all medium ebony. The first week it was impossible to tell them apart but by the...

My husband woke up with a chin on his face. We had modified a large aviary to be a chin cage but forgot the side breeder doors had no latch. Just a spring that gave resistance. She's been sliding the clips all around trying to get out the doors for the past week since that escape.

We use Dasani water. We like drinking it ourselves anyway. Reverse osmosis with no minerals and salts added back in is debatable. Many vets and all doctors are against drinking RO or distilled water because it can dilute the minerals and salts in the body too much causing health issues...

I think it's possible that a lot of the people who say their chin never used it just didn't catch them using it. Mine don't run on their wheels until late. I didn't think they were using the silver surfer at all but my husband stays up a little later than I do or wakes up in the middle of the...

I've seen terra cotta pots in natural and dyed colors on chinchilla supply sites. I wondered if they actually chew them or just enjoy them as an obstacle. Unless you get the really cheap stuff that hardly grows anything potting soil contains fertilizers and possibly other chemicals for things...

Alfalfa in many other countries is called lucerne hay. I wonder if the more stemmy legume hays like alfalfa would wear the back teeth better than leafy grass hay.

Hachiro had 2 boys and a girl as her first litter too and she had a ton of trouble feeding them. We actually took her to the vet because her nipples were so irritated we were afraid of infection. The vet gave us some meds and told us to separate the kits for part of the day and give them a...

Usually stuff like that doesn't do physical harm to mammals. Just a little discomfort from the smell in the air. Super heating nonstick surfaces can kill birds though. They are very sensitive to oxygen concentrations in the air.

You can ID various woods by shape and bark type/color You know exactly which chinchilla likes each one I dumped all the wood we had in a community box, grab a handful at night, and walk around going "here's a good pecan piece for you and how about some kiwi wood for you. Josh throw Hachiro...

Keck did something similar. I had both the top and bottom doors open to clean their cage and went to scoop up keck. She dodged me and jumped through the hole. I don't know if she planned to push off the door (we don't have any ledges there) or if she just saw the open space mid jump and...

I have a 48" long aquarium light in my hedgie room to give them a good light cycle. 2 will come out as soon as the light goes off and wander their cage most of the night, 1 will sneak out to check for wet cat food or mealworms when we come in the room to fill food and water before bed, and the...

I finished introducing pairs and trios of chins and had an empty level so I decided to give it to Katsu and Aime. I changed out the pan to a cutout one, laid the fleece back down, and tucked the corner under. Rearranged some shelves and put the chins back. Katsu immediately hopped on his...

We have a couple 32 oz bottles.

Should be safe but usually petstore wood products are so heavily dried and old that animals don't really find them interesting. Except maybe gerbils. They chew up anything. The chins seem to really want the fresh bark and green layer underneath instead of old wood.

A lot of people feed dried herbs and legumes (alfalfa, clover) as treats. You can get all sorts of dried things from online vendors. Rose hips are also good. You will have to keep them cooler than the outdoors. Some type of air conditioning is required. There's really no way around it in...

Aside from the invisible toxic mold that most commonly grows on corn or peanuts, corn has a very bad nutrition profile. The amino acids are not at all balanced and it promotes unhealthy fat deposits instead of healthy muscle tone. That's why they finish large meat animals on corn. It produces...