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Q & A / Grooming question from new owner
« on: September 12, 2014, 12:31:49 PM »
Hi everyone! I'm new here and new to chinchilla parenting. I adopted my male chin from an acquaintance who could no longer give him attention but she was very vague about details about his life prior to his re-homing. She said he was about 2-3 years old. Chewbarka has been with us since May and seems to be doing well. A couple weeks ago we noticed his fur was clumped near his right ear and when we were finally able to touch the area its seems as though the clump is caused by a piece of feces and probably urine. We figure this happened because he likes to hang out in his exercise wheel so there is often fresh urine and feces and then also go lay under the wheel. So my question has two parts: What can I do to improve/ remove the clumped fur by his ear? His dust baths do not seem to be doing anything for it. And secondly, any suggestions for how we can discourage him from laying under the wheel so as to prevent this from happening again? He does have 2 hideaways on other levels of his cage.
Thanks for reading!
Thanks for reading!