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[TokiDokiWartooth]

Besides the staining, I have been scowring her litter pan for squishies but I can't find them.    I have a small water bottle that I changed every other day.  I will take her to a vet when the temps calm down a bit or to an ER if she stops eating or acting funny.  Like I said before, I never catch her in the act, and I check her butt 2 times a day.  her poops go back to being firm, not hard, and a nice good length.   I cant find any super long poops or squishy ones anywhere.

Just for my own research purpose, what do they give chins for Giardia?   Are there different kinds of treatments and if so what do you think is the safest.  if it is the reason for her getting a bit of what seems to be diarhea, I want to know what my options are with the vet.  Sorry, I am a medical proffesinal, I like to do my homework.

[chinclub]

Wait, so you have never seen any sign of diarrheal. Is there poop stuck to her hair or is it just discolored?  I'm beginning to wonder if it is even diarrhea at all.

[TokiDokiWartooth]

No actual poop haning from her fur. I noticed her fur on her butt gets brown when one of us is gone, which is usually just slightly yellow.

[TokiDokiWartooth]

A note to add that seems to have gotten lost is that she hasn't been left alone. Either my boyfriend or myself are home with her everyday.  She isn't bored, she is obviously used to having us both home everyday, and she seems to get more jumpy when one of us is gone and she will keep going to the spot where the missing person usually sits and stop for a second, get up on her hind legs and look around.

[chinclub]

OK, now we are getting somewhere.  Discolored fur doesn't mean diarrhea. That is usually caused from a chinchilla urinating and laying in it. 

[TokiDokiWartooth]

I hear ya, I just wish I knew why her normal yellow discoloration turns brown.  I spot clean her cage everyday too, she she doesn't pee where she lays, infact she has a whole corner she refruses to have litter in so she can lay down, lol.

Maybe I am just an over cautious momma.

[chinclub]

Do you feed her food with alfalfa in the first 3 ingredients?  Do you feed her alfalfa hay?  Alfalfa in the diet can cause urine to become a dark red color.  It can be very shocking if you ever see a chinchilla urinate on a hard surface and can see the color of the pee.  Many owners mistake it for blood.  It is common and will cause your chinchilla's normal yellow stains to become darker.

[TokiDokiWartooth]

I feed her Oxbow Chinchillla essentials with a very small pinch of rosehips and Oxbow western Timothy hay.  I give her a small leaf of Spinache in the morning.  During playtime I will give her a very tiny bit of yogurt.

[TokiDokiWartooth]

Update:  It was just her sitting in her pee again.  We switched to fleece liners which I made myself and they are keeping her much cleaner.  She is a nibbler, but she doesn't touch the fleece, Thank God!

[Debbie.nl.ca]

Well I am happy to read that It's so noticeable on the whites too.
Yes watch the fleece,I have to many,coming ,staying and going ,that it gets difficult remember who eats it and who doesn't. It's just not worth the risk for me.Though kits will get fleece for the first couple of weeks if born in the colder months..