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Health / Re: Easy way to tell if chinchilla is peeing

« on: February 01, 2014, 09:13:35 PM »

I'm so sorry to hear about that! I hope he is feeling better. I would give 50/50 pedialyte and water as much as he'll take, using a syringe. Do you mean he has IVs in him to hydrate him? If so he should be peeing soon. I would also see if he'd like more water every hour or so. Make sure he has plenty of food and lots of hay to eat. Hay is full of fiber and will help keep the gi tract moving. I could be wrong with chinchillas but I do know some pain meds and antibiotics can mess with the gi tract in different animals so keep watching for poop too!

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Health / Re: Dental and sore mouth UD She's gone :(

« on: January 23, 2014, 06:58:03 PM »

I'm so sorry for your loss.

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Health / Re: Dry skin, really dry feet

« on: January 23, 2014, 06:55:49 PM »

Yea his ears are fine, they aren't flaky and he doesn't scratch them any more than usual. When I tried to find something about dry feet, I almost always saw that the affected chin had dry ears too. I am worried that giving dust baths twice a day is going to dry out the rest of his skin, but other owners/breeders advise to do so when you put lotion/vitamin e on them because otherwise they will stress out (makes sense, because you're basically greasing them up).
We use paper bedding (Eco-bedding to be exact) but have put pine in there as well as of this morning. He is never on wires, even when I take out the tray to clean it I put fleece down so he doesn't chew on the rug that's under the cage. I'm not sure what cleaner is used for the floor, but it has not been cleaned since they've been here so that could be a possibility.
We have also considered fungus, and have gotten some spray powder to spray on the wood (not sure if its okay to spray on his feet). If he has had hair loss, its been very little and it's hard to tell when they don't have as much fur on their feet.
I will watch and keep updating on here, hopefully it won't come to that. I don't want to stress them out by having to take them to GA or NC within a month of stressing them out by moving them

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Health / Dry skin, really dry feet

« on: January 23, 2014, 12:14:53 PM »

So I haven't posted I quite a while and some things have changed since, so I may be a bit long and add details that aren't nesecary (sorry in advance! Better safe than sorry)

So I have moved (with my 2 boys) to my boyfriends house. We currently do not have the portable ac I have always had with them since we haven't needed to use it yet. We have, however, leave the window open when we are home to cool the room down. Another change for them is now their playtime is on hardwood floors, rather than on the carpet.

Before we moved them, both of them would sometimes chew (no fur loss though) or scratch themselves a lot more than usual, so we cut back on how often they got a dust bath from every other day to every 3-5 days. However, Dexter seems to be chewing on his foot quite often, more than before we moved them. The other night we checked out his feet and they were really dry and it seemed like some of the skin had peeled (there was no blood though). So we have been putting vitamin E on his feet 2 times a day and then giving him a dust bath right afterwards (we read to do that on chincare.com). Now we are about to switch to Aveeno because the vitamin E is so thick, I worry it doesn't help enough before we give him a dust bath. I'm also worried that giving him this many baths will make the rest of him itchy too. Any ideas on what to do? I don't think it's really stress related, since there are no other symptoms I've seen. Thanks so much!

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General Chat / Re: home for chinchilla

« on: January 04, 2014, 05:07:52 PM »

I hope he finds a good home. I think there is a selling board on here!

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General Chat / Re: Poll - please ansawer

« on: January 04, 2014, 05:07:06 PM »

I hope more will help out!! Good luck on your project!

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Q & A / Re: Good vacuum for chin cleanup?

« on: December 21, 2013, 09:54:36 PM »

I sweep up the hay and then either use my shop vac or if I have to vacuum my whole room I use a dyson. If hay clogging up in the vacuum is the problem try sweeping up the hay first. If I don't both machines will clog!

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General Chat / Re: Poll - please ansawer

« on: December 21, 2013, 09:47:48 PM »

I did it!! what is it for exactly?

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Q & A / Re: letting chin out to play

« on: November 23, 2013, 07:16:40 PM »

One of my chins will do that! If he does investigate, he's trying to find a way to escape hahaha. Overheating is possible I suppose, just probably pretty uncommon. My boy who flies around will poop out and sleep for a little while on his side before he goes at it again!

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Q & A / Re: letting chin out to play

« on: November 22, 2013, 07:29:33 PM »

I let my chins out for about 1-2 hours a day in the evening. Their play area is right outside their cage, so they have free access to eat and drink. When I feed them they know it's about time to go up, but I have let them out longer on my days off and I've never had any trouble with them overheating. When they are tired they go back up and nap, if it's both of them I'll consider them done of they don't come back out for 10ish minutes or so. But that's not what usually happens. They don't play hard the whole time but they do enjoy being out; they will sit with me and watch shows and other things, I think it's great bonding time !

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General Chat / Re: I think my Chinchilla wants to be in the circus!

« on: November 22, 2013, 07:22:46 PM »

Aww how cute!! Those ate some awesome toys too!!

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Web site Reviews / Re: Lair of the Viking Chinchilla

« on: November 10, 2013, 12:07:31 PM »

I love the theme!! Great site I like it

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General Chat / Re: Testy Chins

« on: November 04, 2013, 10:43:03 AM »

Yea I didn't think about it being a factor because I used to do playtime in the am, then stopped for a while and had started back up. I mainly did it because Skillet would play much more than in the evening playtimes, while Dexter was more energetic in the evening playtimes and usually slept most of the morning playtimes. I used to get up and have playtime at 5-5:30 am however, and this time around was around 7:30-8:30, so that may have been the cause. Either way last night was another successful night, and now I am starting to think Dexter was just cranky and didn't want to play since I had disturbed his slumber earlier that day!

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General Chat / Re: salem the magician

« on: November 03, 2013, 09:28:59 AM »

That is so cute!! What a sneaky one

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General Chat / Re: Testy Chins

« on: November 03, 2013, 09:25:55 AM »

Update: Yesterday we had to work from 5-6, so neither one of us was able to give them morning playtime (which we used to do, then stopped and started back up a month ago). Well last night after work I watched them and there was NO fighting! I will keep only doing evening playtimes to see if having 2 playtimes is the cause.