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News & Updates => Guestbook => Topic started by: AliPie003 on July 16, 2009, 03:21:11 PM
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Hey everyone! I've been a chin owner since February and I love it! I've currently got 3 chins; a black velvet named Herbert, a standard named Pikachu, and a white ebony named Rupert. I got Herbert and Pikachu from Petco which I regret and don't at the same time only because they are so awesome I wouldn't trade them for any other chins! I'm a student and I work as an independent contractor through ChaCha. That is a great job because I get to work from home and hang out with the chins all day. I am also interested in breeding once I graduate and settle down somewhere!
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Hey there and welcome to the forms :)I am pretty new here myself. Man your lucky get to stay at home and work, what kind of work do you do? Wow 3 chinchillas they sound cute Do you have pictures up of them? would love to see some. I don't have a chinchilla yet waiting till I get my own place where we will have ac. But I can't wait to get one. This is a good form to ask questions about anything and people are very helpfull on here.
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::silly:: Hi! And welcome to the Chinchilla Club Forum!
::wave:: Jo Ann
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ChaCha is a texting service where people text in a question and people who work for ChaCha look up the answers for them for free! It's pretty cool but sometimes the questions get a little annoying. I'll get pictures up as soon as I get them onto my computer! :)
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oh cool and I could just imagine some of the questions people have rofl
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::silly:: Sounds like an interesting job! It's a way to continue and broaden your education, also!
::think:: You must learn allot while getting the answers for others. :::grins::
::wave:: Jo Ann
Gotta ask you a question ... :blush2: ... What can you do/use/plant that will discourage bunnies from eating your garden? :) They (along with the deer and a few other wild animals) love the cracked and whole corn we put out for them, about 100 - 150 pounds a week, but at least one of them has taken a liking to my tomato plants, lettuce, cuecumber and cauliflower plants. :'(
:::grins:: It must be something that would not harm them. :::grins:: (I've already tried tin pans ... those are being ignored.)
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Welcome to the club. ::dancingspot::
We have a great time around here with our little fur balls and are always learning.
Good question Jo Ann, I had to put a wire fence around my small garden.
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Here's a link to a website that has some good ideas!
http://web.mac.com/elementsintime/creatinglandscape/Elements_In_Time_-_Creating_Edible_Landscape/Entries/2008/3/19_How_to_Stop_that_Bunny_Hop_In_Your_Garden:__Humanely,_Organically,_Frugally,_&_Sustainably.html (http://web.mac.com/elementsintime/creatinglandscape/Elements_In_Time_-_Creating_Edible_Landscape/Entries/2008/3/19_How_to_Stop_that_Bunny_Hop_In_Your_Garden:__Humanely,_Organically,_Frugally,_&_Sustainably.html)
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::silly:: I have a fence around the garden, but the bunnies are small enough to get through the fencing. We've had bunnies for years and my garden, too ... no problems ... till this year ... I guess one of this year's new arrivals likes fresh gardens. It's now eating my newly forming cucumbers once they reach a little over an inch or two long. :doh: I hope it will go back to the corn we keep out for them ... I even set out rabbit food (pellets) for them.
AliPie, Thank you so much! Very good information there ... especially in the sites linked to within the article. They listed some good spices that I had thought about planting anyway. :::grins::
This was also listed: BUT I STRONGLY disagree with the mothballs ... Mothballs can cause feline leukemia in cats, from what I have been told. ::puke::
Other ways to repel rabbits include:
•Dog hair: After brushing the dog, place the hair among plants and in the joints of the edging strips around the trees.
::puke:: •Mothballs: Scatter mothballs around the garden. Needs to be re-applied frequently. ::phhhhhhth::
•Cat litter: Place the used cat litter along the edges of the garden and ring plants with it. Continue to replace with newly used litter.
We don't have a cat any more ... but ... now I know what to do with the huge amount of dog hair I sweep up daily :::grins:: (we have two Great Danes) ... Hello, garden ... let me introduce you to dogie hair! :D
::highfive:: Jo Ann
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We don't have a cat any more ... but ... now I know what to do with the huge amount of dog hair I sweep up daily (we have two Great Danes) ... Hello, garden ... let me introduce you to dogie hair!
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