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Chinchillas => General Chat => Topic started by: chinchillagrl06 on June 06, 2006, 10:43:26 AM
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I love dusty chinny pictures! Share your dust bath pictures!! ::silly::
Here is Monkeybuny my bv female. :::grins::
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/smromero06/Pets/Monkeybuny%20Squirrelbuny/DSCF1079.jpg)
And Squirrelbuny my standard male. :D
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/smromero06/Pets/Monkeybuny%20Squirrelbuny/DSCF1033.jpg)
I call them my dusty little Squirrels. :-[
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::silly:: Hi!
Can't decide if Squirrelbunny is flirting or just has shifty eyes. They are cute!
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Jo Ann
When I figure out how to add a picture I have one I would like to add. ::)
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LOL I think I caught him just before a sneeze. LOL ::silly::
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(http://www.threeriverschinchilla.com/img/gallery/50.jpg)
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Awww! They look happy in there dust! ::silly::
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Here is Cheerio in the bath - but she doesn't look dusty!! Also, can someone let me know how to make my photos smaller??
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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 :)
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Bath time is so much fun eh!
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I think bath time is my favorite thing to watch the chinnies do. They just look so happy when their all dusty. ::silly::
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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!
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This is Roo. He was out playing and found his dust bath before it was time to go back in his cage.
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heyy
my chin Cheerio LOVES her bath!!!!!! rofl 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 ::thumbsup::
~steph ::silly::
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::silly:: ::nono:: Please, do NOT give your chin anything that is scented.The fumes can give your chin a respiratory infection. :'(
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Jo Ann
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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.
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::silly::Hi Debbie,
I haven't heard of it either.(scented dust bath dust) ::shrug::
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 ::nono:: . 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. ::nod::
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. :::grins:: 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.
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Jo Ann
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hi
Jo Ann...the sented dust is made for chins. we got it at pets mart.
but should i still keep to regular dust??? ::shrug::
~steph ::silly::
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::silly::Hi Chinny Girl,
I'm not a vet, I do not work at a research center for chinchillas, so ... I can not tell you what to do, or not to do with your chin. That has to be your own personal decision. I can only say what I would do, if the chin was mine. ::nod::
I can let you know what I have been told by long-term breeders that have been in it for 10 to 50+ years. What I have learned from my own chinchillas. I have over 200 chins and have worked with them for quite a few years. I studied books about them, read articles about them and searched the internet for a year and a half before I became a breeder and still do. I have been interviewed and quoted by a writer from Critters Magazine, I have written articles for the Chinchilla Club Magazine, and a booklet on the basics about chinchillas that has been translated in at least 5 different languages. But what I know now about chinchillas is only a drop in the bucket compaired to I want to learn about chins. Chinchillas are new to the 'pet world' and new things are being learned about them constantly.
As one very smart, well known, long-term breeder told me years ago ... "What works for one may not always work for the other". So, you have to decide what you want to do about the scented dust bath. :-[
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Jo Ann
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::silly::Hi Chinny Girl,
I just went back over the last post ... sorry if I sounded a little harsh, I apologize. Jamie has also been quoted by the same writer in the same magazine, she has also written a booklet (it has probably been translated into other languages also), she has studied for years, written many articles herself, she owns the Chinchilla Club and has many chins.
Basically, what I was trying to say was that this is a place to go to get other people's experiences and advice as to what they would do, if the chin belonged to them. We are not vets and can not tell you what to do. We are here to share ... not to tell. ::nod::
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Jo Ann
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hi jo ann
thanks ok :-[
i will keep that in mind tho!
~steph ::silly::
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My vet told me it wouldn't be good to put them in scented dust because it would give them an infection. :::(((
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Ya I would never use scented dust.My vet said the same thing.
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Okay I have to add this pic or two or three. ::)
I wouldn't use scented either, I have seen it in the pet store, but I wouldn't take the chance. :::(((
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oops! Here they are I think ::shrug::
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:::grins:: I just love the one with it's littile paws on the bath house. ::silly::
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aww those pics are so cute.....here is Bernie and Bell at bath time::: ::silly::..bernie is doing the nose whipe...lol and bell is playin pikaboo
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Basically, what I was trying to say was that this is a place to go to get other people's experiences and advice as to what they would do, if the chin belonged to them. We are not vets and can not tell you what to do. We are here to share ... not to tell.
Double ditto Jo Ann
I tell folks I'll share all I know, but it's up to you what you do with/for/too your chin.
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)
Jo Ann what's the difference between that corn and the corn meal some ranchers use in their supplement.
MCBA News Volume 44 No 4, Formula 2 has yellow corn meal?
Also I just had a couple sleep over chins{summer vacations} and the owner said she found on the net someone who told her nuts were OK. I told her I wouldn't feed them nuts,and won't give them any while they are here, but it's up to her what she feeds them.
We just never stop learning and sharing.
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I just have to say that chinchilla in the bunny pot thing is adorable!! By the way i use blue cloud dust and recommend that
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:doh: I can't take pic of mine because when I get the camera out they all come running out to get their pic taking and end up with little noes on the camera. ;D
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This is Roo in his bath. I had it beside his cage and he found it before he was suppose to. That is how I get him back in his cage when he don't want to, but that time he got to it to early.
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:::grins:: How funny is that, rofl
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my bath isn't very photo friendly, but ill try to remember to get some pics after work, also, one of my favorite things is when they are done taking their bath, i watch very carefully, and when they do their first hop (or two) it looks like a little cloud of dust poofs out from them (even better when they shake their heads really fast)
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my bath isn't very photo friendly
Half of mine are small salt beef buckets, I have a lot of single chins. ::)