new here : he keeps biting me! :[

[litomzcindy]

hey everyone. i just recently got my two chinchillas about a month ago. while i'm at work, my sister and mother always take care of of them , so i think the chins know them really well by now. we havent had any problems.. but recently i've been having trouble with my older one, Nismo. if my sister or i put our hand to block Nismo's way (from exiting cage).. he starts pushing our hands and and bites it! how can i stop this behavior ? :[ please help.

i also have another problem.. Nismo keeps tugging HARD on the fleece on the bottom on the cage (fn142) so he can get under the fleece. i have no idea why he is acting this way.

nismo & nico.

 

[alli713]

If he's biting you when he's trying to get out of the cage, you can try blowing gently in his face to see if that stops him. Or try tapping him on the nose gently as well to get the point across that you don't like that.

Or try distracting him with something else like a twig or shredded wheat while you have to open the cage.

As far as them tugging at the fleece, some chins will do that, they like to rearrange their cage it seems. You can always get some marble tiles from the hardware store and place them in the corners of the cage to hold the fleece down.