Hi ChinChillyLvr,
Names can be deceiving. 
Mikey, Died of a heat stroke. Now, Mikey's mother, Maxie, has been depressed and has not been eatting regularly and has stopped drinking completely!
Chinchillas need to be kept in temperatures between 65 and 75 degrees.
Well, due to the poor handling by the pet store owners, she is very scared when someone tries to handle her. She also tries to bite, and that HURTS ... Also, we have many dogs, and Maxie is afraid to come out of her cage because they will eat her! We know this because they ate our hamster... {R.I.P. Flower}
If you have had her for a year and a half and have been treating her lovingly, she would not be biting you. If you had some wild animals as big as a house (compairing the chins size to your dogs and you to something comparatively the same size) ... you'd be afraid to! Those dogs have NO business around the chinchillas!
We are going to give Maxie her first bath in about a month and clean out her cage to see if that will make her feel a little better.
If you are boasting you're finally going to give her a bath and clean her cage after a month like that is doing something special for her ... I'm not fond of some of the things I have heard about PITA, but I can only hope they come visit you!
We can't seem to ever get to a pet store for all of our animals. We live on a farm.
If you can not feed them properly you should have never gotten them! They must be from a pet store, no decent breeder would have sold them to you.
well, she has lived 1-and-a-half-years on those vegetables....
we believe she is very happy...
Apparently you are not very observant and have no idea how to care for her properly! And from what you are saying and your attitude ... you don't care or have any intentions of doing so!
Well, we give Maxie just some dry things that we can find around the house like saltine crackers, veggies, fruit loops and a couple of other things.
Also, Maxie is still not drinking any water! We had taken the advice to measure the water before we go to bed and check it in the morning. We had done so and none of it is gone...
It is very apparent you need to find her a good home a.s.a.p. Or Someone up there will take pity on her, too.
You came asking for advice ... have chosen to ignore it .... and in the process tried to tell off the owner of the Forum and the Chinchilla Club
who does know what she is talking about! I would say what I am thinking, but I'm a lady.
Jo Ann [/i]
