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Elle2005

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Flippy Chin
« on: August 28, 2012, 12:47:56 PM »
Peaches has taken up flipping round the room? She goes mad, I don't know if it could be because she's still nervous of us, as we've only had her nearly 2 weeks. But she didn't do this until she'd been with us for a week. She has a wheel in her cage that she adores, so I kinda ruled out pent up energy.
She'll come out of her cage herself and explore the room, then after a while the flipping starts. She jumps now too which is a good thing I imagine, but the flipping caught me off guard. A bit worried she'll hurt herself, though I imagine with the amount of fur chinnies have she should be relitively ok as far as little bumps go?
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Re: Flippy Chin
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2012, 01:38:18 PM »
Can you better describe what you mean by "flipping"?
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Re: Flippy Chin
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2012, 02:10:33 PM »
Sumersault, or however it's spelt. She'll just be standing there then, not so much jump, but spin herself around mid-air, then speed off.
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Re: Flippy Chin
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2012, 05:21:51 PM »
That is normal.  Here are some videos of a chinchilla doing flips:

http://www.luvnchins.com/VideoDustysFlips.html

http://luvnchins.com/ChubbyAndFamily.html  the video is near the bottom of this page.
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