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That all makes SO much sense, thank you for the ideas!!! She might really enjoy peeing on the rocks, at one point she was balancing on her food bowl to pee in it 🤦🏻‍♀️ and also took to peeing on the cooling tile. She'll pee anywhere except where I want her to lol.

Hello! Almost 2 months ago I adopted a bonded pair of very sweet chins from a previous owner. They've already become quite attached to us, which is just the sweetest thing! The previous owner had adopted them separately from other owners, who she said did not provide good care, so I don't know...

Thank you both for your kind words <3 I also thought it was likely genetic, and maybe it was the cause of her not wanting to eat hay this whole time. She's my first ever chinchilla, definitely not bred by me lol, her genetics were just luck of the draw. She did wake up a lot more like herself...

Petmate compass pet carrier, she absolutely hates being confined so she hates that carrier too lol. I put a little fleece pad I made at the bottom. She lives in a FN double unit all to herself so that may be part of it, but I think she has just always hated confinement of any kind. It's...

She has a history if having that reaction to being picked up/restrained, even by me who she super trusts and loves. They think it may be some kind of syncope response, and due to the heavy breathing it causes they are afraid that she may not survive being given anesthesia. They are an...

Update, Minchi saw the vet today, she had a point on the left side which was successfully taken care of. She had x-rays done and unfortunately it is a case of malo, with elongated roots. She was sent home with pain medication. Given her severe stress reaction to being at the vet/picked up, I...

I just checked on her, her chest is dry now but the problem seems to be on the left side of her mouth where it was still wet and drooly. The right side is nearly dry. She's pawing at her mouth but otherwise again is her normal self, even happy to accept chin scratches. I just tried again to...

A yearly exam sounds like a great idea considering her current hate for hay, I'll try to find a very good vet in my area to follow up with her. I have a feeling it's an issue like a bone spur, mouth sore, etc. that hopefully won't be too much trouble to treat. As for the pellet restriction...

Hello! My chinchilla Minchi, 6 years old, has new drooling down her chest (as in within the past few hours, she's never had a drooling or teeth issue ever), but she is otherwise extremely happy (jumped up to greet me excitedly, as usual), lets me pet her, and is eating and drinking as usual as...

I had that thought as well but she very willingly eats an incredibly hard digestive cookie from oxbow, and chews it down well so I don't think thats it, but I may just take her to get seen anyways cause there's no harm in it anyways

Thank you thank you thank you!!! That is super helpful, I can never seem to find full simple lists like this. I'll sample some of these to see what she likes, thankfully she isn't too picky besides hating raisins (tried once out of curiosity, she literally threw it she hated it). She does like...

Oh wow I NEVER heard about the thing about oats, thank you I’ll definitely pull those! About the oat hay, I was also giving her those to make sure her molars were ground down while eating the orchard grass since it’s soft. Is that really necessary or is the orchard grass on its own enough? I...

Just wanted to update in case it helps anyone, the hard dried on poop came off with some very regular dust baths (every other day) for a short period of time, either it made it easy for her to pick off or the dust loosened it, and I learned that if she has diarrhea keeping a coating of dust on...

Hey so my chinchilla Minchi is usually a great eater and LOVES pellets. She used to eat them like I never fed her before when I’d fill her bowl back up. She’s been on oxbow pellets her whole life (not the garden select) and lately I’ve noticed that 1. She spends a ton of time at the pellet bowl...

Hello everyone, I have a problem I'm having a hard time finding a solution to. My chinchilla had a bout of GI stasis, from which she recovered, and long story short a few weeks later she had full on liquid diarrhea. We did a fecal test and found nothing, and based on the fact that the issue...