Hi guys, I had one more question. Normally, my little guy has been good with traveling (I have 2 houses I travel between ~6-8 times/year), but this past time he seemed very anxious and was trying to bite the wiring of the cage. I was worried that he might chip a tooth because he was biting the wiring fairly hard.
I know that you are not supposed to travel with chinchillas, but Dex has been very good with it the past few years and has never had any issues. The night before traveling, I perform a "fire drill," which basically means I'll put him in his carrier cage for 15 minutes so he can acclimate to the carrier cage and understand that traveling will happen tomorrow. But I am unsure why he did not do as well this past time, for there wasn't a significant amount of time between traveling trips. Thanks for the input.
