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General Chat / Re: Chinchilla going through stress?

« on: July 29, 2016, 07:34:38 AM »

Sounds good. I think they'll do fine. Chins are usually going to act differently the first month after a major relocation or change. It's nothing to be concerned about considering there has been no change in their eating habits. Sounds like you're handling the situation perfectly.

i stayed up late and hesrd barking from mr chachi. We have a raccoon trying to make herself a home in our garage! So i went into there room and offered some rosebuds to him. Well he didnt take it from me so i called my brother over and he took the rose bud out of my brothers hands like nothing lol hes such a hilarious chin. Thank you gray rodent i miss this forum so much especially coming to get some reassurance makes me happy! Thank you btw would you recommend alfalfa and oat hay cubes to them? I want something thats going to help grind down their teeth and give them variety of different hays and chews
-Manny

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General Chat / Re: Chinchilla going through stress?

« on: July 29, 2016, 01:28:23 AM »

Are you moving your chinchillas from house to house on a regular basis? If that is the case you should not do that because chinchillas do not accept that kind of stress. They need to live at one house and stay there or you are going to have behavioral problems.

The cure for your problems is treat them gently and normally and establish a stable environment for them. Eventually they will adjust to their new place. Sometimes it helps to run a fan nearby (never blowing into the cage) to help drown out new noises. With chinchillas it can still take them time to adjust even if they have been to the same place in the past. Make sure other pets like cats and dogs stay out of the room.

This is the first time they have been been here at my moms house, they were at my dads for about 2 and a half years and since he is moving to an appartment soon i had to make a change for them as soon as possible. I would never bring them back and forth from house to house. And sorry if it sounded like i said that. We do currently have a dog so now i know to keep him away. My brother and i did do a deep clean today and closely monitored them as they were out of there cage and did ok. But now i know to give them time to settle in and get use to the new smells and noises of the house. On occasion i put the a/c into the 2nd speed so theres less noise.

P.S. I do remember first adopting them it took about a month and a half close to 2 months to become well established at my dads house. So i kinda have to take things slow with them.

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General Chat / Chinchilla going through stress?

« on: July 28, 2016, 09:30:20 PM »

Hello everybody at the chinchilla club its been a very long while that i havent came on this forum. But i have a very important question that i need solved. So for the majority of the time all 3 chinchillas were living at my dads house with a terrible air conditioner. Eventually i got a new one for my moms house so i can bring them over and give them better attention than going back and forth to my dads house and having my dad check up on them before leaving work. Long story short they are now living with me and seem to be stressed? One of my boys doesnt seem to care. The other seems about fine but when i carry him he is in freeze mode and as soon as i open his cage door he wants to jump off asap like he is scared or something. The baby seems kinda the same. Everyone is eating fine drinking water fine, pooping fine. So in that area i have no concerns also i havent ordered any chew toys so i know im due for that this coming tuesday which excited for since a couple stores have new chew toys and such. But what should i do in terms of them having stress? Should i leave the room to them alone more or should i do somehing else? I also keep them in a room with sugar gliders too but they have done well with them at my dads house. I will really appriciate the help asap so i know what things to do thank you!

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Health / Bleeding foot pad

« on: February 10, 2016, 12:36:56 AM »

Hi everyone i havent been on for quite sometime as the chins have been doing good but today i notice chachis foot had a bit of blood. Then i also noticed him either grooming the area or possibly picking at it. I did clean the blood off with some water and cleaned the wound with a little peroxide and some bag balm to keep it from cracking or getting any other bacteria. My mom did say if it bleeds again or looks infected we will take him to the vet on friday since we do have a memorial tomorrow and thursday for my grandma that passed away last year. But as of now my dad is going to check up on him through out the night. I dont know if it could be possible bubble foot? The foot pad looked a little red it wasnt warm or hot to the touch. His other foot pad looks good so that one im not to worried about. He does have a habit of sitting on his pee even after rearraging there huts he still will go sit by the pee or go find another spot and pee and sit there. I am planning to switch there plastic pans to stainless bass pans so i can avoid all plastic so their pee wont soak up on the plastic or anything.

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General Chat / Dont know what to do its going to get hot!

« on: August 13, 2015, 09:26:09 PM »

So my biggest fear was that temperatures were going to rise higher then the mid 80s in los angeles. For the next 2 days its going to go up to the 90s and my portable air conditioner has been running non stop for the past week. All i have been doing is cleaning, feeding the chinchillas and the cage because with my body heat and the light in the room they are in, temperatures go up to 75. Without me in there or a light on it drops to 73. My other rooms in the house get A Lot more sunlight then my room im just nervous about tomorrow and the day after because its going to be 90 degrees. It drops back in the low 70s by monday.... I hate this

edit: i have cleaned the filter to my portable A/C i dont know what else to keep the room more cooler then it is.

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Cages / Revamping & restoring all items in the chins cages soon!

« on: August 10, 2015, 02:14:31 AM »

Really soon i will be restoring all of the chins items since its been more then a year they have had there wood shelfs and stuff and i should be getting some new fleece in too. Plus im adding a 3rd level to the cage to give the 2 big boys more room. I am considering in getting chico his own cage depending if he is able to handle jumping from level to level since he is a small chinchilla from the 2 i have. Changing the subject a bit i wanted to know if i was to order or make a 36" shelf for my chins would it fit into place or not? I see a lot of people with the long planks across the back part of there ferret nations or critter nations and im worried if i order or make the wrong dimensions ill just be screwed lol.

P.S. Chicos level is seperated off from chachis and chonchis level so they dont share both levels

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General Chat / Re: Chinchilla build a habit to jump out of my hands into the cage?

« on: August 10, 2015, 02:09:11 AM »

I totally concur and it is dangerous for a chinchilla to do this. I know of injuries that have resulted from this. Try to release your pet at floor or shelf level. The most common injuries are to the teeth and nose when their face smashes on the floor and tooth injuries are miserable to deal with. I just hold my chinchillas against me if I feel they are going to jump. When I put them back I'll funnel them into the position I want them to be in. Holding at the base of the tail is a very useful technique.

Its been awhile that i have been on had a minor illness going on but still in recovery through out the time i was off i did kind of change his habit of that. I started doing what you told me and he still gets figity but will relax and settle after a bit but now its uncommon when he does it and if he does he does it when hes closer to the cage but not in a hurry more that he wants to jump off and go to his fleece tube since thats his favorite thing

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General Chat / Chinchilla build a habit to jump out of my hands into the cage?

« on: July 09, 2015, 01:59:29 AM »

Its been awhile since ive been on here but one of my chins (chonchi) the chinchilla that loves to nip and get into trouble A LOT! Has developed a habit of jumping off of me or out of my hands into the cage. I have had some scares but thank god from the times he does this he has never been hurt or jumped into anything to hurt himself. But this habit was an out of nowhere thing. I had to put him away since there playtime was over and for the 3rd time allowed me to pick him up without him jumping and running off. So after i picked him up i held him all the way to the cage and a couple seconds after opening it he suddenly had this jolt from his tail all the way to the front of him and run and jump he goes! Into the cage! And i got scared thinking something scared him but no the only noises going on in my room was the A/C and my brother vacuuming the room next door. (The chins are use to the vacuum already so there not  scared of it) the bond between him and i is no different everything has been the same since but its these out of nowhere times he Jolts off of me into the cage and theres been a couple times where he slipped off my shoulder or my hands and i had to catch him out of being frightened he would hit his head and break out having seizures or he would break a leg or hand. Thank god none of that has happened but i just want to know why he does this and if anyone else has a chin that does this. Lol ita pretty frightening

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General Chat / Re: Introduction Problems

« on: April 15, 2015, 11:44:06 PM »

Some chins are just bullies and are best left alone. They adjust to it in time. If he is fighting with your two he may not even get along with a sibling. Chins don't recognise 'families'. If you do get another chin for him do not get a female. He will need which adds a whole new level of complications for you. Koop working with your chins and do a long slow introduction. How are you getting them used to each other?

Thank you for responding and i let the baby one out with one of my older ones at once and ever since i can tell it will be a slow process since it takes time for them to fight or start chasing. Before they chased and fought and tried biting each other now if they try they just chase each other. But i let them out of the cage and leave a big plastic bin for them to take a dust bath in together

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General Chat / Introduction Problems

« on: April 07, 2015, 12:55:45 AM »

Now that my chins are back to normal health i wanted all 3 to start there bonding, well all that happened was the smaller one (chico) kepts chasing one of my older chins (chonchi) my other chin (chachi) doesnt mind him unless chico picks at him which was whatever between them the smell each other but dont really care that there both there. But there was alot of chasing and some mounting and some fur slips. It looks a bit better then when i first tried introducing all 3  since they actually tried fighting. This time there were no signs of fighting but alot of chasing, mounting and plopping everywhere. I really would like them to get along, if its not possible would you suggest me getting chicos other siblings? The breeder i got him from still has his siblings, he said he would give me one of the parents since there a retired breeding pair but i also suggested a sibing better, chico and his brothers and only sister where sharing a cage total of 3 boys including and the sister. I really would not want them hating each other since chico does look sad alone in his cage, i am not going to consider surrendering him or giving him away since chico doesnt get along with my other chins.

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Health / Re: Dry feet?

« on: March 18, 2015, 10:57:15 PM »

If you get rid of the fleece your pets will be less likely to urinate on the shelves. In the meantime you may want to turn the shelves over so they won't smell the scent and be tempted to relieve themselves there.

Chachis feet has improved but still a little cracked but im most likely switching fleece soon.

I have another off topic question i think one of my other chins hit his nose because he has 2 small scabs on his nose and since i got home i noticed that and like his nose is making a whistling noise he has no discharge or no sneezing hes been super healthy no problems earlier today he didnt have both the red scratcheds or nose whistling and i know noise when breathing indicates uri. I did give him a dust bath yesterday. Hes had a nose whistle problem before i think 4 months after i had got him and out of nowhere the noise stopped so idk if its a patterned thing when he takes a dust bath. Like i said hes eating like he should and bouncing around, wanting to bite me like he usually does to test me and pokes his nose out of the cage to tell me that hes craving his herbal supplement.

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Health / Re: Dry feet?

« on: March 14, 2015, 10:22:54 AM »

I've heard that sometimes fleece can cause this as well by exposing the animals to urine on hard surfaces. Perhaps someone who uses fleece can comment on how to solve this. Otherwise I recommend switching to kiln-dried white pine bedding and I expect your situation will improve in a couple of weeks.
Everything else looks good. Diet is good, dust bath intervals are good (just limit it to 15 minutes per dust bath). This is a known issue with chinchillas that are in contact with urine.

Yea thats what i thought on doing too, for now until the irritation on his feet starts to minimize i put this pillow cover that has about 4 layers to soften his feet. And i have to clean off the ledges in his cage because he has a habit of peeing on them so later today i have to do that but all his ledges are covered up with those pillow cases. And i switched out his fleece and cleaned the pan so no lingering pee gets into the new fleece set

In a month or so im ordering about 20 new shelfs to replace the current ones because i know with chachi peeing on them they will eventally begin to rot

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Health / Re: Dry feet?

« on: March 13, 2015, 09:04:30 PM »

What kind of bedding are you using in your cage? Often people who use artificial bedding have these problems. It can also happen if you are dusting too frequently. What kind of diet are you feeding? Sometimes that can have an effect. Are there any signs of fur missing or anything going on besides the feet? Is the other chinchilla affected?

I use fleece, i was giving them there dust bath 2 a week and the times they had play time they would dust on there own. and im feeding them timothy hay from kmshayloft, oxbow pellets, and of course water. And no ts just his foot pads theres no fur missing anywhere. And its just him only. Btw i did rub some bag balm on earlier

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Health / Dry feet?

« on: March 13, 2015, 03:12:56 PM »

I noticed one of my chins feet were cracked and little bit red and idk if he picks at his feet but there was a small scab on his right foot pad i did look for swelling but i cant tell if there swollen or not. I did rub some bag balm a couple days ago. What should i do? Chin probs after another. Im leaving school right now since im kinda worried for him to check again. There was a couple of times that his feet would crack and bleed but that stopped after i started cleaning twice a day instead lf once a day.

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Health / Re: baby chinchilla has eye boogers

« on: February 26, 2015, 05:38:52 PM »

How long have you been using antifungal dust? Is there are good reason to do this? Is it true that both pets were affected?

My chin chachi had started having itching and his whiskers would break off but after giving this dust all that stopped, but i use a little bit as a preventative, my other chins werent affected