This Chin is over the top MESSY!!!

Caroline · Jan 14, 2013

Ok, I know that Chins are messy by nature, and that isn't the issue here. I have 7 chins now. 3 males who are all caged by themselves. Three of my females are still younger and are caged together in the top of a FN 142, my other female is by herself in a cage. She is the one who is the messy one. When I say messy, I don't mean throwing her poop around, I mean peeing all over her cage and outside of it, all over her shelves and even pees in her food bowl. At the end of the week her cage is far messier than the three girls that are caged together. Has anyone experienced a chin as messy as that?

Collmar89 · Jan 14, 2013

I haven't had that issue with my chins, but is either sounds like she's very mad or upset.

The only other thing I can think of is that you may need to take her to the vet. For some animals peeing like that can be a sign of some medical issue.

Zoaea · Jan 14, 2013

Yes u.u my newer male seems to pee willynilly including ruining hay on a regular basis and hitting the floor outside his cage. He only peed in the food once so far. I'd get her a dish that hangs on the cage wall. I got some fleece to line the outside of the cage near the bottom tray and this seems to have cut back 90% of the stuff expelled from the cage. If i find pee on my new carpet might be time for some fur lined slippers though. -_-, Im hoping he will grow out of it still.

Caroline · Jan 14, 2013

I bought scraps of linoleum and put them on the floor under the cage and on the wall behind the cage to avoid that issue.

Caroline · Jan 14, 2013

No medical issue, I have had her over a year, she is bright eyed and bushytailed, has given me a beautiful litter, she just is that way and always has been. Oh and she has very good aim when I try to pick her up or do something in her cage.