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General Chat / Rehoming Pixel...

« on: November 25, 2008, 10:55:30 PM »

I hate to do it. I do. But its a temporary rehome... Does that make sense?
I joined the Army. I'm going to Basic Training December 30th, so I only have a few weeks left with her. I don't trust my fiance to remember to take care of her, so she is going to live with a friend of mine who has Chinchilla experience. When I come home from wherever they send me, she'll come back to me.
I'm in tears, but I knew if I joined the Army it would happen.
I know I haven't been around a lot, but I needed to vent about this, and I hoped maybe this would be the place to do it? I hope this doesn't make anyone mad, and I don't get flamed.
<3

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Health / Yeast infection?

« on: August 24, 2008, 05:30:01 PM »

Pixel is usually a very clean chinchilla... Today when I got her out for her dust bath, her bottom was covered in pee. She's got some white discharge coming out of her, too. I'm pretty sure its a yeast infection. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Problem is, we just moved to a small town in IL, and there is not good exotics vet in town. The vet I work for is an idiot about chins and says they should get water baths, among other stupid things, like nuts are good for them.  Those of you who have GOOD chinchilla vets, what should I ask for to treat this? How do I go about doing it?

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News / ...

« on: April 04, 2008, 04:27:16 PM »

Hey guys, sorry I haven't been around much, I check in once in a while, but I just don't have much to say. Things have been crap since mom had her cancer surgery. It took a long time for her to recover, and now that she's having chemo, she's depressed and upset, nothing I do is right and she takes everything out on me. When she lost her hair from her chemo, I shaved my head because she was upset about being the only bald one in the family, and she's done nothing but tell me I look weird and that I'm stupid ever since.

We got another Chinchilla, a pink and white, her name was Snowflake. A friend of a friend had her and couldn't take care of her, we assume she was a pet store chin. We had her three days when she died, the necropsy said it was malnutrition. She hadn't even gotten to meet Pixel yet (obviously with the quarantine time, it wouldn't have been possible.). I feel terrible that her life was so short. She was only about a year old.

Aaron and I bought a car a few weeks ago, and we let my dad borrow it to go to the doctor because my mom had theirs. He totaled it, and the accident was his fault. Now mom and dad are saying they don't have the money to pay for it, and the other guy's insurance is fighting us tooth and nail.

I had a stalker who was recently caught and put in jail. I spent a week in Illinois on police orders for my own safety while they tried to catch him.

Last, but possibly close to worst, in my opinion, yesterday we had to put my fourteen year old Chinese Crested dog, Ted, to sleep. He had blood cancer and we couldn't afford the chemotherapy for him any more. I miss him so much already, but it was just his time, I guess. The other dogs are moping around about it. We did adopt another about a week before dad wrecked the car. Her name is Bobsie and she is a Tibetan Spaniel. She's very sweet.

Here's hoping I have the time and energy to get around to coming back here. I miss you guys.

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Q & A / Home Grown grapes to raisins?

« on: February 29, 2008, 08:36:44 PM »

Has anyone done this? We have a grape vine that goes pretty much unnoticed, but it does make good grapes... small, but if we eat them they're excellent. We've never used pesticides on them, only soap and water mixtures to kill bugs, but I was wondering... Can I dry them out, like I do apples, to feed Pixel??? That would be so awesome, it would save a little money (very little, but still) and I think it would be fun.
Does anyone do this at home? Do you have any advice?

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Health / Tomato?????

« on: January 11, 2008, 05:42:19 PM »

I came home from work today (about five minutes ago) to a very guilty looking mother...
I asked her what was wrong and she told me, very sheepishly, that she knew she wasn't supposed to, but she had given Pixel a very small piece of Tomato. I asked her how small and she said a quarter of a cherry (or grape) tomato. I'm upset, but I know she's going through a hard time right now. She said Pixel was barking and she felt bad, so she gave her the piece.

I'm worried about Pixel... Should I be?

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General Chat / Chinchilla Dreams??

« on: January 06, 2008, 11:47:21 PM »

Does anyone here find that since you've gotten your little buddies that... they are CONSTANTLY in your dreams?? It seems like every night I see Pixel or another chinchilla in my dreams... and for some reason they're usually multiplying! (By which I mean there's like one, and all of a sudden there's two, and then four, then eight... so on and so fourth.)
I just woke up from an accidental nap, in which I had a dream that we came home from the grocery store to find Pixel sitting on the hope chest, and when I went to pick her up there was a *POP* and then there were two of her! O.o
I'm I insane or do you all have dreams like this too?

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Health / Fumigation?

« on: January 04, 2008, 11:17:23 PM »

Tuesday we're having the house fumigated, its my dad's twice yearly freak out... Once in the winter and once in the spring. Any way... Pixel needs to be out of the house, along with everything and everyone else, I know, BUT... Should she be gone longer than everyone else, or will she be OK to come back at the same time we're all coming back (The day after, about the same time they ended, so roughly 24 hours. I will probably stay away forty eight, regardless because of my hypersensitivity to fumes, but if she can go back, I'd like her to be where she's comfortable.

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Other Pets / Welcome home, Merlin!!

« on: December 18, 2007, 12:00:11 AM »

Sooooooo....
About three months ago, a friend of mine had a birthday, and he told me he wanted a pair of Dumbo rats (male). I bought him Merlin and Vortigen. A black male and a white male. Vortigen died, probably of starvation... And the said (x)friend told me he didn't particularly like Merlin so he thought he'd feed him to his snake...
My reaction?? OH HELL NO!! (Pardon my French) So I went and got him. His back is balding, he's skinny as heck... He downed a whole water bottle when I finally got him out of his tiny cage (he was almost as long as it is!!) and into the big one I bought him. And then he ate like he'd never seen food in his life. What little food he had I'm sure was given to him through the bars, so he's a finger eater... Until you actually get him out. Then he's sooooo cuddly!!
Tomorrow I'm going to hit up petsmart and get him a wood house and a ball to run around in... I wasn't counting on having any more rats, so I got rid of what I had for them... Stupid me. Everyone that knows me knows I can't resist animals of any kind...

Any way, here he is:








Sorry about all the codes... I wasn't sure which link was the one to use. So I used all of them. I'm the least computer savvy person I know. lol

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Health / Ear Infection?

« on: November 15, 2007, 07:27:39 PM »

I've been bombarding you guys with health questions lately, but today I noticed that Pixel is a bit off balance. I checked all her legs to see if anything was funny, but didn't notice anything... I made her a vet appointment for tomorrow. There is an Exotics Specialist that visits my vet's office once a month, and she's there tomorrow!! PERFECT TIMING! lol If she's no good I'll take her to my regular, in case of emergency vet, but I've been wanting to check her out. Can't even remember her name, but yeah, anyway... Now that I'm completely off topic, I'll get back to what I was going to talk about... lol
When my dogs or I get ear infections we're always out of balance, falling over and even just tipping a little randomly (that's all I've noticed in Pixel). So what I wanted to know is... Do Chins get ear infections? How are they usually treated?

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Health / Pixel has a knot in her fur

« on: November 14, 2007, 09:41:10 PM »

And she won't sit still long enough for me to do anything about it!! O.o
It looks ridiculous (not exactly the point, but still), and it makes me wonder if the dust I'm using is OK?? Its Blue Cloud, but I didn't notice any knots with the other... whatever it was.
Any way, tips on getting her silly little butt to sit still for me to get the knot out? I've picked at it little by little, but she gets bored and hops out of my lap. It looks like it would come out pretty easy now, but I don't want her to get to the point where she doesn't want me touching her at all.

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Chit Chat / I have a sort of awkward question

« on: October 20, 2007, 07:24:08 PM »

When i was four, I was molested by my biological mother's boyfriend. My adopted family (grandparents) never brought up charges against the guy... Now that I'm eighteen and they can't stop me, I'd like to do it... But its been fourteen years... Does anyone know how I would go about trying to do this? Would it just be thrown out of court, or would someone actually listen to me, do you think?
It eats at me that he's out there still, probably doing it to some other little girl... It's a sick feeling. I'm not wanting to sue, I want his butt in jail, where he can't touch another little kid...

I'm sort of nervous about posting this, but here it goes... I'm hoping someone can help me.

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Chit Chat / My mom has cancer

« on: October 18, 2007, 05:25:25 PM »

Lung cancer. I'm scared and confused. I don't know what I'll do if I lose my mom!! I'm so upset right now its not even funny and Aaron isn't home to talk to me.

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Q & A / Loose Hay / Hay Cubes?

« on: October 15, 2007, 03:42:45 AM »

I have both loose hay and hay cubes for pixel... the thing is, my new job pays a bit less than my last one, and we need to do some cut backs... what I want to know is if I'm giving her one, do I need to give the other? If so I'll just have to find something else to cut away, not necessarily from her, but it was just the first thing I thought of.
Which ones are better, any way?

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News / My Store Sold Their Last Chinchilla Today

« on: October 10, 2007, 06:37:20 PM »

Then told me that they didn't need me any more, because they won't be selling any more chins.
I'm sad to lose the job, but I'm relieved that they're not going to be endangering any more chins.

On the plus side, the groomer across the street from them is hiring, and I'm pretty good at grooming dogs. I have an interview there tomorrow.
Wish me luck!

OH! PS!!
I turned eighteen yesterday!

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Chit Chat / House Is Flooded

« on: October 05, 2007, 05:05:34 PM »

The pipe in the back of our washing machine broke while we were out and flooded the WHOLE house! When we got back there was water running down our drive way! O.o
My parents just put in new hardwood floors, too. Totally uncool. We've got all the water out now, thanks to our floor scrubber, and my room is the only one not soaked because its elevated from the rest... but everything else is ruined, including one of our computers (mom's, which sits on the floor).
Two days away from my big eighteenth birthday party... Guess we have to find a different location, huh? Ugh, this is amazing. It happened once before in our old house in Maryvale, but I never expected it to happen here. Everything smells, and Pixel is acting really, really nervous. Any thoughts on how to calm her down? She just came back from my friend's house, and was ok, I guess, until our dogs started freaking out over the water.
Today has been a very loooooong day.