You will definately get poison Jon, hope you get your chin soon!

For air cond on a room, you will need a tiny gap of space to let air going out or coming in(personal choise). For me I have few window have small tiny gap that it cant close, when I open the door, air will be suck in or out. Secondly, you need to on a fan as well when the room is with air cond for better ventilation. For me i need to wash the netting every 5-7days. I make sure air is circulate well in the room.

Chinchilla is a night animal, they are active at night, i think you must buy her when you saw her for the first time. Chinchilla will prefer a fix place, try to find a fix place.

You also can spend more time research on the care fact of chinchilla, will be very much useful for you and your chin.

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: May 29 2008, 07:43 PM

Shingin, I can truely understand your friend and every pet owner will have a super temptation when you decided to buy chinchilla not just 1, but 2 in difference sex.

It is a bad bad ideal to bough male n female for the beginer, another to start WANT TO BREED THEM. Chichilla can get pregnant at 4 months age, when they get pregnant at this stage they babies and them will not be survive due to the female not fully develop to adult hood, I will suggest you quickly tell your friend to seperate them to difference cage untill they are 1 yrs old. Meantime reading is the only way to help her to understand more about the habitat and nature of chinchilla.

From what you tell me about the cry of chin, chin not crying, it is normal for them is active at night time, especially mid night, and they will jumping here and there in the cage and making noise. A wooden house, you can get from Pet safari or pet wonderland, they have some imported wooden house which is 'colour' in every side of the house, that house is OK to use. just dont buy tiny hamster house and thinking your chin wont grow big, it will.

Pet safari chin is only 4 week-7 weeks old(beside one standard grey is 2 months+), is tooooooo young to take out to sell, so be more watchful, PLEASE PLEASE JANGAN GATAL TANGAN TO FEED THEM TREAT, like grapes, fruits or anything else except they PLAIN pellet and timothy hay and controling feeding alfalfa hay.

3 Story high is not suitable for your chin at this moment, cut to 2 level. young chin not fully develop they sence of discernment of high, they will jump down from any platform they feel OK at that point. once accident happen, your chin's back bone will be very easily break or broken, and you can do nothing but wasted your money and sitting in front of the cage and cry.

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Added on May 30, 2008, 11:31 amYa, nettting that inside the AC, need to wash.

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Added on May 30, 2008, 11:33 amGo farmacy, any farmacy, ask then saying you want anti fungus in POWDER form, if they dont have go to another shop, you can get it there.

Can you show us your chin? dont be shy if your chin is really infacted with fungus, picture will tell the most easily.

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Added on May 30, 2008, 11:34 amI will try. They hate my camera very much.

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: May 30 2008, 11:34 AM

hahahah... Thanks.

I would like to invite for all who already or recently own a chinchilla, please post up your photos and have CHINCHILLA PARTY SHOW HERE!!!

Is better to see each one sleep happily alone rather then see no more either one. Yes, chinchilla cannot get pregnant easily and THEY CAN get pregnant very easily as well. Some more your friend buying the same colour, SAME BATCH, just difference tone, and your friend do not know the background of that 2 chin at all, it very very high possibility is from same parent or same father. In result your friend will create inbreed which she do not know.

If your friend have levels cage, just seperate them 1st n 2nd floor, of cause you may need to modified the cage yourself a little.

visitation not available yet. Gathering...hmm... to talk like hun, I think I prefer post thread on internet.

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Added on June 1, 2008, 4:44 pmFungus on the feet? so fast ah... last week I see seem ok, now already got fungus ah..sigh. If the tail no hair, that is not just happen once, I think Ikano that side carry some bacteria that causing this, I always see and heard chin have this problem from there. They need to wash their cage and disinfect.

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Added on June 1, 2008, 9:42 pmA photo speak thousands words...



This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jun 1 2008, 09:42 PM

Ow.... you bough this 2 chin. Glad that you separated them, well done. What feed you using now?

Which one have the whole patch missing fur, can you take a picture to show me? Fungus is very easy to attack chin or any furry animal here due to our climate. If you have a rabbit near by, i suggest you place it else where or dont put in same room. Wash your hand with soap each time BEFORE you touch your chin and wash your hand with soap each time after you touch your chin. That will avoid bacteria spread.

The hay house look ok to me. Your chin will love it, he will chew it down in no time...

Since you using newspaper as a base for your chin, that can save some cost, but make sure each day you change it for them. Place a bit thick paper, pee can wet the whole paper very fast if your paper is to thin, it cos a big mess.

Just to add a note for you, your chin is a medium Ebony and a light tan.

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Added on June 2, 2008, 11:11 amCan i have a look of you chin? Must be lovely.

Well, you did the right thing not rush into buying! I can truly understand the POWER OF CHINCHILLA will surely draw your heart to buy them when you first saw them. It is a wise choise you have make, count your cost that you can only commit to certain level. GOOD!

About the cage, chinchilla have many cage can be use over here, just be creative, at the same time make sure cage is save. Flat bottom cage is always the best, high level cage is also good, but not too high for young chin, thirdly is make sure is easy cleaning for you. Chin will have rocket poo every where due to their active at night, kick all the poo all over... Get a 2 feet in width and high min. cage , should do a good job. Think about your chin will grow big.

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Added on June 2, 2008, 11:16 amNo, is it very easy to fight with fungus provided you must be very patience to treat them. Fungus build up due to humid and hot weather, expecially after rain in our country. Fungus can be treated within 2 weeks. usually once the right treatment is given, you can see great result in 1 week.

Dust bath is the key to avoid fungus, for those that not putting their chin is air con room, you need to give your chin 3 times a week dust bath. Get DUST bath, NOT SAND bath. The best enviroment for chin is always, COLD, DRY, QUITE, PLACE TO HIDE.

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jun 2 2008, 03:41 PM

Read hard, study hard, you will be very relax enjoying your chin when you buy it.

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Added on June 2, 2008, 3:38 pmCLOSE UP!



This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jun 2 2008, 03:38 PM

Feeding chin is very simple, just do whatever is suit your time frame and set on that, they love routine feed. About the timothy, soon they will start eating, continue feed them, sometime they eat but you can't see.

Misai kena trim is normal, because 1 of the chin in his group want to be leader, they will trim off other's whisker to show his is the boss. Misai will grow back soon.

You now should go buy a digital scale, to weight your chin once 2 weeks, write it down, this can help you to monitor your chin grow stage and health.

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jun 3 2008, 12:23 PM

They are!

How about show us your chin? Have'nt see your. Love to meet your chinchilla.

Dont trim. Trimming it wont hurt him, but he will be very unhappy with that. Usually I do it when a chin is very aggresive trimming others chin misai. Misai is they sence of direction in the dark, and balancing, if no big deal, dont trim. For digital scale, 1 Utama Jusco top floor have sell, look around there.

Great! Slap them left and right.

I did know PW will have chinchilla coming in this week as they mention to me earlier. About the condition of care, I think PW so far had done minimum to care for the animals compare with a lot of pet shop. I been to Mid.V PW just 3 weeks ago, I think I have give a very basic guide line for the stuff who take care of small animals section, he do it or not, I not sure.

The fur thing is due to the crowded cage and the handling of the custom, they stay in custom for 3-4 weeks before begin release to your. So the fur will look horrible lor, but surviving la. I dont know what the hack the custom feed them also, all animals is in big room.... I guess.

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Added on June 4, 2008, 11:27 amBuy the cage, but dont buy the food, i already told them is junk, and they can't remove also, is the business due method.. .sigh

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jun 4 2008, 11:33 AM

because everybody is waiting to see your chin!

When you going to show us the photos?

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jun 4 2008, 03:11 PM

Yes, they can with no problem, for years.....

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Added on June 4, 2008, 3:31 pmwaiting......

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jun 4 2008, 03:31 PM

If I am not wrong is from Germany or Holland.

You didnt see chin sell in the market is because they can't get stock. Because the breeders over there dont have enough to supply export for sometime.

o... helena is your housemate ah? then good la, you got chin to play.

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jun 4 2008, 05:04 PM

Dog will create fear to your chin. He will think of something going to eat him, create stress, and fear. 100 feet away is needed. Chin in the wild is prey animal.

Ya,part is from through local pet shop to get from Holland and germany but with specific request to them, some is from singapore breeder, some is from the State.

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Added on June 5, 2008, 1:28 pmSoon you will have, save money!!!

This post has been edited by Chinchillas: Jun 5 2008, 01:28 PM