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Messages - MelodyAndMochi

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General Chat / 4-5 months old chin needs wonderful home
« on: October 04, 2013, 11:09:29 AM »
Hello.  I don't know if I can post this sort of posting here but I'm rehoming my rescue baby chinchilla.  If I am not allow to do this please let me know.  I will gladly delete it right away.  You can see a picture of her from my previous postings but if you want more picture email me at krnsu@yahoo.com   I live in Austin, TX, very south part of Austin, if you're interested in.
So here's little story about her.  This woman surrendered 1-week old her and her brother to this animal hospital and she was around with her foster chinchilla mom and human parents until she was 2 months old and I took her over.  She's very well tamed; will come to you, jump on your shoulder, smell your face, will take treats/food from you inside and outside of cage.  She is like other chinchillas, she will chew on cords if you don't put them away, she will chew on doors and walls, she will poop everywhere while she's out of her cage.  The things I was hoping to train was potty traning and not to nip on you when you try to hold/grab her.
I know almost everybody on this forum has chinchillas and they are very well taken care of.  That is why I want to start here to find her new family.  I will send her home with her cage, oxbow pallet, oxbow timothy hay, compressed 16L bedding and dust bath stuff. 
When you email me, I will ask you questions about chinchillas and I will only contact local people around my area and to ensure that she goes to right family there will be a small rehoming fee.

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Q & A / Taming chinchilla? biting chinchilla?
« on: August 14, 2013, 09:31:24 PM »
I have 3 months old chinchilla, she is rescue so grew up with foster chinchilla mom and friends with human since she was less than a week of age.  I brought her home when she was month and half old.  So I think she was pretty tamed already.  From day 1, she would jump on my palm and shoulder, use my leg as a ladder or a bridge.  She would take treats and hay from me and eats them inside and outside of cage.  And she play bites all the time, more likely play nibbling like a puppy.  But whenever I try to hold her when she jumps on my palm she bites the crap out of me and I bleed.  So far it happened like 4 times.  I never grabs her or chases her to catch.  Is that just her characteristic?  She lets me pet her head, back or stomach even let me touch her hands and feet oh and she loves when I scratch her neck.  I guess she does not like to be held? or is that something time, patient, love and some blood(lol) would help.  Does that mean my chin is not tamed?  By the way, she loves my dachshund.  She would let her do anything to her including sniffing and kisses.  They are under supervision 24/7 whenver they are together but my dog is super lazy and mellow.


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