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Q & A / Re: Grooming question from new owner

« on: September 12, 2014, 05:52:08 PM »

I have 3 years left til I'm officially a DVM, but I have removed many mats from cats and dogs. I'm going to try to gently comb them out as I'm still in the process of establishing trust with this little guy.

I had read about thier preference to urinate in one area though it seems as though Chewbarka has not been notified. He does prefer to urinate in the corners of the different tiers of his cage in addition to the urine in the wheel and the wheel does sit in one of those corners. Do they typically like to urinate on the bedding? From what I can tell he doesn't as there are 3 areas where I see urine on the wires. Would you suggest I move the wheel to another area of the cage?  Also, I'm not sure I'm understanding what you meant by re-establishing the area. Should I put some of the soiled bedding where he likes to urinate?

Thank you for all the info!

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Q & A / Re: Grooming question from new owner

« on: September 12, 2014, 01:52:26 PM »

Thanks kageri, I'll try rubbing the dust on it while I get a comb. The wheel we have is a super pet plastic type. Thanks again for the advice!

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Q & A / Grooming question from new owner

« on: September 12, 2014, 12:31:49 PM »

Hi everyone! I'm new here and new to chinchilla parenting. I adopted my male chin from an acquaintance who could no longer give him attention but she was very vague about details about his life prior to his re-homing. She said he was about 2-3 years old. Chewbarka has been with us since May and seems to be doing well. A couple weeks ago we noticed his fur was clumped near his right ear and when we were finally able to touch the area its seems as though the clump is caused by a piece of feces and probably urine. We figure this happened because he likes to hang out in his exercise wheel so there is often fresh urine and feces and then also go lay under the wheel. So my question has two parts: What can I do to improve/ remove the clumped fur by his ear? His dust baths do not seem to be doing anything for it. And secondly, any suggestions for how we can discourage him from laying under the wheel so as to prevent this from happening again? He does have 2 hideaways on other levels of his cage.

Thanks for reading!