Quite frankly, this and many of your other posts has me pretty well disgusted already. You need to grow up a LOT and do a LOT of research and quick. You do NOT get rid of a chinchilla because your new chinchilla doesn't get along with it. It's also pretty stupid to take a male who's in breeding and just try to toss it together with another male, and expect them to get along. You don't have the money for a new cage for your female, let alone whatever vet bills may pop up from pregnancy complications, or other vet bills for that matter (as evidenced by sitting up with your chinchilla all night while he died).
Two deaths back to back are not an accident, they are a tragedy and I feel VERY sorry for your chinchillas and can only hope that you actually take time to learn from the information on this forum and follow it responsibly instead of ignoring it or brushing it aside.
By the way, I doubt your boyfriend's grandmother knows much about chinchillas if you've learned info from her that you've shared here, such as the alfalfa hay for bedding and feeding guinea pig food because rabbit food "makes them sick".
Frankly, I don't appreciate the way your talking to me, that is the exact reason why I am here is to learn and I know that the deaths were a tragedy, I bawled my eyes out for hours. I am doing my best to provide for them, and when I gave them away I wasn't just throwing him out into the cold, they went to a loving family and I made complete sure that the two chins got along fine. It was an honest mistake to a person who has never owned chinchillas before, and I did make sure that the other one was no longer being hurt. And I visit them often, I am constantly calling my dad and liz to make sure that everything is okay. So it's not as if I just tossed them into a dumpster to be forgotten.
Atleast I had the heart to sit up with him and try my very best to help in any way I could, if you would google Mc Grath Minnesota, it is in the complete middle of nowhere and the vet was not available I tried in three different areas that I could find the numbers too.
Your right, I did say that I didn't have the money for a new cage which is why after reading about getting a single level cage for them, I had a friend go out and buy the supplies to build another cage suitable for her while she has her kits, in exchanged for tutoring them. And if vet bills to happen to come up, I will have to end up repaying my parents. I've sold over half of what I own just to make sure that I have the supplies for them so they can be healthy, and I'm still selling so I can keep up with their needs. I am sacraficing most everything I have for them so do not sit there and tell me I do not care.
It's because of posts like this that discourage people like me who are genuinely trying to find ways to provide better lives for their pets, but after getting a response like this I really don't feel comfortable being here if I'm only going to get criticized instead of learning the info that I need.
I spend HOURS a day on the internet looking up information about chinchillas trying to decifer the good from the bad, which might I add isn't as easy as it seems. HOW DAREyou accuse me of not caring for my chinchillas, when I am making an honest effort to become better for them. Atleast my chins are not like the one that was found in Cocoa (sp) Florida.
