its eyes are always gooey. tried drop and antibiotics. was only in one eye now it both, changed to paper bedding it helped a little. oh yeah and she is old 17 or so but still as active as a 5yr old. any one have an idea as to why it has goo?

Hello, everyone out there in chinchilla-land.
I come to you with a conundrum.

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I just wanted to offer something- if thats not okay delete this right away. I found myself doing icon animations and used videos of my chins, too. So I thought anybody would be interested in an animation...

I do it for free, for sure. If you want one, go request HERE

Examples: (those are Jack and Sawyer, my lil babies ;)

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I was wondering if anyone has some ideas for cheap possibly homemade chinchilla toys. My chins look pretty bored a lot of the time but buying them new toys all the time gets so expensive ( Read more... )

So the other day I read online about "cuddle buddies" for chinchillas. My chin seemed a little lonely so I picked up a little, soft sheep stuffed animal for her. I made sure to get something chinchilla-sized to be as realistic as possible.
When we took her out and introduced her to it, she ignored it, but today my fiance came home to find her ( Read more... )

I just joined and I'm really excited to have found this community! :)
My fiance and I bought our sweet female chinchilla in December 2007. It was love at first sight! We named her George but usually we just call her Chilly or Chi-Chi. I go to school two hours away from home so I only see her on the weekends, but Jason (my fiance) takes great care of ( Read more... )

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I wanted to try making some wooden toys/hide boxes for our chin (and rat).  I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this, and/or could offer advice.  My thought was wood pieces from a craft store, and those places you can get un-finished wood for larger projects.  I'm sure most craft glues would be harmful, and nails/screws could be