Shorter whiskers?

[brittiny]

We just got from our holiday vacation so we picked up our chins from my mothers who was watching them for the week. Before we left we noticed our oldiest male, Dr. Death, had a few broken whiskers. Both him and Morgqn Freeman seemed fine and niether have been fightingW so we didn't worry too much about it. Today when we got a close look at dr. D his whiskers were mostly broken and about half the length they are normally. Morgan freeman's are fine. What could have happened to once long pretty whiskers?
They aren't fighting and haven't seemed to be acting any different. Jeremy has noticed that Morgan Freeman's balls have been showing more so he thinks that he might be trying to take domanice from dr d, could Jeremy be right?
Will dr d be ok with his whiskers like that? They'll grow back right?

 

[Kansas City Chinchillas]

Jeremy is correct about a dominance issue. Dr Death will be fine with shorter whiskers. They will grow back if Morgan Freeman allows it. As long as the boys aren't fighting there is nothing to be concerned about. Just keep an eye out for fighting.

 

[Carol~Anne]

Dr. Death & Morgan Freeman, such interesting names for chins, lol.

I had read about the dominance and whisker thing before in chins but I noticed the other day that one of our cat's whiskers are shorter on one side. I don't know if it's a dominance thing with them or whether he singed his whiskers on the wood stove that he always gets so close to but one side of his whiskers are definitely shorter than the other side.

 

[mrbojangles13]

dr death and morgan freeman hah

yeah whisker length directly corilates with dominance. perhaps it was the change of enviornment. all will be fine if they still get along

 

[SexySadie]

someone explain this to me i have new chins and how does dominance and whiskers coorelate ? my one chin is gettin krimps in his whiskers.. does that mean anything, i have two uneutered males

 

[brittiny]

usually the chin with the longest whiskers are dominant, which is why i was confused because Dr. D's were much longer and I thought he was the dominant one, but I guess things are changing.

 

[magallag]

That's interesting. I never noticed that. Do they assert dominance when they hit puberty or before?

I have two girls and they both have really long whiskers. They both have some bent whiskers. I can't tell if they have an order, yet.