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Croydon, there are numerous vets around me but we have always used this veterinary and it has always been reliable, but I can understand that they can never be experts on every single animal so I will take into account what people say on here as I believe they will probably have more knowledge...

Yer it says 8 drops per day, its dog Metacam and I only do a tiny drop. Ill move him out tomorrow then as its too late for me too start sorting out the other cage for him now

Yer i dont think i will be allowing him to have a shelf again until he is a big boy with bigger feet. The vet has given me Metacam to give him 8 times a day and he seems to like the taste so it isnt a problem giving it to him. They also said to put him back in with his dad so he doesn't get too...

We took him to the vets this morning and they had a look at him, he was more springy on the table but still dragging his leg so they took him away for an X-ray. They just rang me to say that they cannot see a break in his leg and are just prescribing him pain killers until his leg isn't sore any...

Yer i have already decided to go straight for the amputation (thats if it is broken which i 100% think it is) all i am worried about now is if he will make it through the night. There is no reason he shouldn't as there is no external bleeding that i need to be worried about and he looks...

If i do have to hand feed him is it the same as when the mum does not feed them as kits? as i had to do that for his sister for a while. Im guessing it is not though as they all eat normal food

he is in the smallest cage we have and he is just sitting in the same spot each time i have checked

Oky im glad that they can live with 1 back leg, now all i have to do is wait till the vet opens which seems light years away but i guess theres nothing else i can do for him now except check on him throughout the night

I came back from work tonight (about an hour ago) and found my chinchilla dangling by its back leg. I immediately and carefully got him free but I have no idea how long he had been there for. Once down he was dragging it around and not moving it at all. We rushed it to a night time emergency...

Luckily enough I have 5 vets within 10 miles of where I live so I am sure atleast 1 of them is experienced with small animals so I will find the best 1 to take him too. I am guessing it is easier to castrate a male chinchilla then it is to spay a female 1? I guess ill go find the male kit a few...

i am ringing up the vets tomorrow to find out if they can castrate the male chinchilla. I am also going out and getting another cage so i can put the male kit in there on his own, should i put a teddy bear in there with him as well so he has something to cuddle or do they not really care?

i have no idea on whether they might be brother or sister, i just came home one day and these chinchillas were in my flat. I have 2 cages right now, one is just a normal size hamster cage with no levels on it that they have lived in since they were born and the other is a 3 level big cage which...

I would love to separate them but i do not have enough cages and i would much rather her be with the dad and get pregnant then be with her son and get pregnant. they have been getting along fine for the past 2 hours and have not played kiss chase once. the kits are 8 weeks old, i could put the...

well my girlfriend is adamant she wants them to breed again and because they are her chinchillas I cant say no, she says she will look after the babies 24/7 which i know is a load of bull but i cant change her mind. i just want to know whether this aggression will pass? its the female that is...

iv put the parents back together and they have started fighting, i keep hissing at them so they stop and they have stopped by themselves now but are keeping separate. is this normal behaviour when they are being introduced back to each other to reclaim dominance?

Tomorrow the chinchillas are 8 weeks old, they are all healthy and roughly the same size including runty (cant even tell which one she is now). They are fully weaned off mum so will be moving into their own cage tomorrow and the mum can finally go back into the large cage. What is the best way...

the babies have had a run around with mum and dad and they all seemed to get along fine. I know we have 2 females and 1 male and I know for a fact that these babies are definitely not pedigree (the pet shop said we had 2 females that were sisters but that was obviously wrong) so I am making sure...

Hi, i havent posted for a while now because i went on holiday so did not have internet access. I left my whole pet collection with my mum including all of my chinchillas so she could look after them and feed them, I have weighed the babies since i came back and they all weigh between 120-130g...

Runty has now reached the same weight as the other two which is over 90g and it is getting very hard to recognise which one she is as on many occasions I have grabbed the wrong one when it is feeding time and only realise I have made this mistake when they start feeding. Now Runty has caught up...

also iv just checked them and it looks like we have 2 females and 1 male, but i am no expert at sexing them so i will post pictures of them soon (of them as well as their private parts)