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[chinchillagrl06]

I love dusty chinny pictures! Share your dust bath pictures!!

Here is Monkeybuny my bv female.


And Squirrelbuny my standard male. 


I call them my dusty little Squirrels.  :-[

[Jo Ann]

Hi!

Can't decide if Squirrelbunny is flirting or just has shifty eyes.  They are cute!

 
Jo Ann

When I figure out how to add a picture I have one I would like to add.

[chinchillagrl06]

LOL I think I caught him just before a sneeze. LOL

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[chinchillagrl06]

Awww! They look happy in there dust! 

[chinsgrandma]

Here is Cheerio in the bath - but she doesn't look dusty!!  Also, can someone let me know how to make my photos smaller??

[HarveyTheChin]

Cheerio is so adorable and so are yours null I hope to get a dust bath picture of Harvey very soon for all of you.  ChinsGrandma I figured out after I posted my huge picture that if you go into your photo editor you can either resize them or crop them 

[Debbie.nl.ca]

Bath time is so much fun eh!

[chinchillagrl06]

I think bath time is my favorite thing to watch the chinnies do. They just look so happy when their all dusty. 

[chinsgrandma]

The photos I am putting on ARE resized!!  I used the photo editor in Microsoft but they still come out big.  I think Cheerio just wants to hog all the board space, that's my theory.  Have to get a good dusty photo of her to post, she looks like Ghost Chin when she comes out of there!

[Stacy]

This is Roo. He was out playing and found his dust bath before it was time to go back in his cage.

[ChinnyGirl]

heyy

my chin Cheerio LOVES her bath!!!!!! somethimes we leave it in her cage and she might me in the bath house for 5 minutes!!!  my mom even found Vinalla sented dust so my Cheerio and smell good and get clean at the same time. haha


~steph

[Jo Ann]

Please, do NOT give your chin anything that is scented.The fumes can give your chin a respiratory infection.   

 
Jo Ann

[Debbie.nl.ca]

I have often wondered about that Jo Ann.
So many folks put baby powder and things in the dust, I put tinactin in mine. Have to admit I have used the baby powder.
But if the dust is scented, it should be safe wouldn't you think?
Though it's the first I've heard of scented dust for chins.

[Jo Ann]

Hi Debbie,

     I haven't heard of it either.(scented dust bath dust)

     I've always been told by breeders that have been around much longer than I have, that chins can react badly to perfumes, chemical additives, and scented cleaning agents and a whole slue of other things that give off different scents.  The more chemicals you expose them to, the more we seem to find out it's a .  They are so delicate, I just won't take the chance of giving them something that could harm them.     A friend of ours just lost a chin to a severe allergic reaction ... we still don't know what caused it.  

     I use Desinex in the dust bath dust as a preventative for fungus, isn't Tinactin about the same thing?  I know it has been proven in the past that it is safe. 
   
      Baby powder is often used to confuse the moms when a foster kit is introduced (it is placed on the hips and rears of all the kits - hers and the foster kit's).  All three of these have been proven as relatively safe for chins - but - I wouldn't use it, unless, I knew it had been proven by many in the past.    Guess I'm over protective, but, I love my chinnies.

      I've seen to many products state they are OK to use or are even made for chinchillas, then I read the ingredients and it has stuff in it that is not good for chinchillas.  (Example: corn wheels ... pet grade corn is not good for chinchillas)  Many companies do not do their research and just figure, if it is good enough for other small animals, then it's good for chinchillas ... that is so not true.      Most companies advertise to please the eyes and noses of the humans, not the pets or what would be best for the pets.

 
Jo Ann