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Post by anita on Apr 10, 2015 6:25:17 GMT
I don't have a facebook page but I'm now following you on Ebay. Thank you! When I order I will add a note letting you know I'm from the chin/degu proboards. : ) you can message me here and we can put a bespoke mix together
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Post by chinsight on Apr 11, 2015 4:37:07 GMT
Excellent Thank you Anita!!!
Anyone give their chins those blue cloud chew rocks? They are like a sandstone rock and the chins went nuts over them. Biting and scratching them, rolling on them. It was like chinchilla catnip.
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Post by chinsight on Apr 13, 2015 6:41:39 GMT
Okay so I am giving my male Chin a 3 day break on his eye drops since he has the Bilberry tea now. He's not showing any ill effects I just want to give him a break from the twice a day drops but his eyes look terrific. Also www.rondaschins.com/ I spoke with Ronda shes in Oregon and has some really high quailty products. If anyone is looking for some NICE organic twigs etc...she's the go to girl. I liked, well... The chins LOVE everything I ordered. I'm going to invite her to the board so hopefully she will join us. She has chins also.
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ronda
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Post by ronda on Apr 13, 2015 8:36:56 GMT
Okay so I am giving my male Chin a 3 day break on his eye drops since he has the Bilberry tea now. He's not showing any ill effects I just want to give him a break from the twice a day drops but his eyes look terrific. Also www.rondaschins.com/ I spoke with Ronda shes in Oregon and has some really high quailty products. If anyone is looking for some NICE organic twigs etc...she's the go to girl. I liked, well... The chins LOVE everything I ordered. I'm going to invite her to the board so hopefully she will join us. She has chins also. Thanks for inviting me to join the forum. Ronda
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Post by natnat899 on Apr 13, 2015 9:17:00 GMT
Welcome to the forum Ronda, I love the items in your shop - does postage cost a lot to come to England do you know?
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Post by chinsight on Apr 13, 2015 16:53:43 GMT
Hi Ronda! So happy you decided to join. Everyone here is really nice and helpful so you'll fit right in. Ronda's store is in Oregon she carries lots of organic wood which saves the baseboards of my place. I may have inadvertently made her sound like she was in England because we were talking about different stores, but she's on the West coast.
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Post by moletteuk on Apr 13, 2015 19:19:25 GMT
Hi Ronda, welcome. We don't actually have all that many active chinchilla members, although Chinsight, Natnat and Polly are doing their best to revive it. I'm sure lots of your products are good for degus too anyway. Feel free to tell us a bit more about your shop in the For Sale section of the forum.
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Post by chinsight on Apr 30, 2015 20:31:41 GMT
Hi All, just an update on my chinchilla. I called 888-432-5824. www.claritycarnosineeyedrops.com/?gclid=CjwKEAjwpYeqBRDOwq2DrLCB-UcSJAASIYLj_I0Ryeo3DE5z_lwDh9mhTT4H3k02p-kevMJ756R4GhoC3I3w_wcB and spoke with customer support. I told him about my male chinchilla and that I've been using the eyedrops on him since March. He asked how he was doing and what I was noticing? I told him that the cataracts use to cover his entire eye but now i can see black, the cataract is smaller and more see through. He said, "Thats exactly what its suppose to do. It chips away at the cataract." I also asked him if he thought there was more I could do for the cataract like maybe another supplement since this company sells many things. He said if I wanted to accelerate the process to give him the eye-drops 6 times a day. I said won't that be too much? Could I poison him? could that build up in his system since he only weighs less that 1 1/2 lbs? He said all the eye drops do is chip away at the cataract. It doesn't build up in the body and using more will just accelerate the dissolving of the cataract. So there you are!!! I'm going to order more next week and up his dosage to 4-6 times a day and I will continue to update his process. I know he can see because when I come up to him and stare into his eyes to look at his cataracts he runs away because he knows its eye-drop time. On another note. We've been taking the female chinchilla to a huge park and letting her run. You can see her new "Weasel Walker" (what we call it in the avatar picture) that we bought her. It has a leash and a bell on it and we just put her in the grass and let her run wild. If she gets to far or in danger we can grab the leash but she's been really good and doesn't go too far. What's super sweet is that yesterday I showed her the weasel walker and shook the bell. She let me take her out of the cage and quietly sat on my lap as I attached it to her. She knows it means she gets to run in the park. She's our fitness girl. We only let her run for 15 minutes an hour before the sun goes down because she is wearing fur and we are in the Dallas suburbs of Texas. But she sleeps more soundly and is less antsy because she can run off all her extra energy. We will begin to take the male since now he will be able to enjoy it too. He needs to drop some weight because he is chubby. Everyone have a good weekend and thanks for letting me share. : )
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Post by natnat899 on Apr 30, 2015 22:30:07 GMT
Thanks for the update - I'm happy he is still doing well, can I ask, did the gentleman you spoke to know much about chinchillas? - I would be reluctant to increase the dosage if the drops are doing a good job. It's great that the weasel walker works for you, I wouldent recommend it for other owners however, as it can cause stress/fur-slip to the chinchilla and possible escape, but of course it does depend on each chinchilla. Peanut (my chinchilla) I doubt would be fussed by it, but Pickle (my other chinchilla) would be traumatised. Be very careful, you will need to make sure she doesn't eat something poisonous, chew the lead, get caught by a predator, etc. There is so much that could possibly go wrong; I'm sure you have considered the implications as you love both your chinchillas dearly, but just a friendly reminder
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Post by chinsight on May 1, 2015 20:50:31 GMT
I emailed the CEO of the Clarity carnosine eyedrops company and gave him this thread. Maybe he will stop by and give us some insight into his eye drops and the effects on animals. I'm not sure how much they know about Chinchilla's, however, the male is still doing very well and is much more interactive. I can see more black in his eyes instead of just a cataract and he is much more snotty and pushy now... Back to his old self.
I too wouldn't recommend a weasel walker if a chinchilla thrives on escaping from their owner, is very antsy, or just doesn't like to be handled. You can't walk a chinchilla. You have to put them down and not grab the leash unless the chinchilla is at a complete stop or in danger. Bebzee is truly like a dog. She likes being with humans. Car rides, walks, being held... She just hangs out there unless we play fight with her. Then she stalks, attacks us, and runs away. The park is great its like football field with freshly mowed grass every 2 weeks. We keep her in the middle so if danger does come we have time to avert it. Sure things can go wrong but she loves being out and running. She's toooooo cute running as fast as she can across the park. It stimulates her mentally and physically and she's not interested in eating any grass so thats great.
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Post by natnat899 on May 1, 2015 22:27:27 GMT
That is a good idea, it would be an interesting read if the CEO posted.
She enjoys it which is the main thing, I don't know if I could trust my chinchillas, lol - I have to have eyes in the back of my head with these 2. Pickle jumped out the window once *facepalm* I didn't even realise he could jump that high - I have to be careful with him. Peanut is curious, but I can easily scoop him up, I think he sees it as a game, lol
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Post by moletteuk on May 2, 2015 9:24:39 GMT
OMG out the window, I bet you had a heart attack!
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Post by natnat899 on May 2, 2015 13:52:35 GMT
Yes, it was horrible - I was looking around the whole house, called my partner - he took a break from work to come and help me.
We found pickle on the fence outside the bathroom window looking petrified. My partner (Sam) had to go into the neighbours garden just incase pickle tried to jump off that side when we caught him (our neighbour had Jack Russell's). It was a nightmare, lol! Since then I watch Pickle like a hawk.
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Post by chinsight on May 3, 2015 17:21:47 GMT
Chins are like fur covered pogo sticks. What is good for us parents is that chins have no idea what they are all about. They don't realize their full capabilities.. We would be in big trouble if they did. They can also flatten themselves out and slide under doors. Yeah, that' little inch space under a closed door? I watched a chubby chin flatten herself out and slip right under the door into the next room. We all screamed because it looked so impossible. Chins are crafty. Our male would always try to escape. Then he escaped a few times and realized you don't get food, water, treats, and love when you escape and hide behind the washing machine, so he stopped doing that. Our female was the same way and then after awhile she gave up too. Last week we went shopping for 6 hours and forgot to shut their cage. We came back home and they were still in the cage just hanging out. They realize escaping and fending for themselves is very overrated.
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Post by natnat899 on May 4, 2015 7:25:24 GMT
Wow, they are well behaved chinchillas then! Mine still want to get out and explore, but they are young so who can blame them? - Pickle likes to take a wander downstairs every now and then, he is quick as lightening so sometimes it's unavoidable, luckily he is easily enough herded back upstairs. Peanut seems to prefer upstairs, he loves my partners Nans room for some reason. I think he likes her scent, he also allows her to stroke him - other people apart from me he doesn't appreciate it from, lol
I once accidentally left the bottom part of my cage unlocked - it wasn't open, so they didn't notice, lol - in the mornings I can leave the cage doors wide open and they really couldent care less.
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Post by chinsight on May 4, 2015 16:31:51 GMT
You can also buy the clarity vision eye drops on ebay sold by "drvitaminsolutions" which David Benic CEO told me is his company. If you buy off of ebay the shipping is free. One box has 2 bottles of eye drops for $23.70. I haven't made it up to putting the drops in 6 times a day, but I am putting them in 3 times a day and he looks great.
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Post by chinsight on May 4, 2015 18:07:01 GMT
Our chins are older. Our male is going on 11 and the female is 5. I think when they are younger they are more hard to handle because they have all that "little kid" energy. Our female was dead set on escaping all the time when we first got her. She really calmed down when we started taking her for walks, car rides, and now runs in the park. As long as we take her somewhere ever couple days she is pretty content. Our male is like grandpa mouse. We took him to the park yesterday and he just sat there in the shade and let the wind blow on him. The female is the true explorer. We can't let ours run in the house they LOVE to chew on the baseboards, wires, computer keys etc.... Years ago I came out of the kitchen to see the male popping off my new laptop keys with his teeth and throwing them on the floor. The male likes my brother. Sunday he was on my brothers shoulder on the couch and they were both watching TV. I guess they just have their favorites. I think they use me as their slave to go fetch them things. They take the locking cage bar and bang it up and down and summons me to take their order. Its like mouse room service.
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Post by natnat899 on May 4, 2015 21:52:21 GMT
Yh, mine are still pretty young, bless them. These are my first 2 so it will be interesting to see if they calm down as they get older or not, they are currently at the age where nothing is enough - I can give them the whole room and that wont be enough space for them - they will want to get out and explore! They already have a cage taller than me, lol
Uh, wires - they are little terrors, I had spare TV in my wardrobe, Peanut managed to get inside and I thought nothing of it - of course.. the TV wire was shredded to pieces, and it was attached to the TV so I had little hope of replacing it. Headphones.. chargers.. any small little wires they can get there paws on are no-go's. We have learnt the hard way, haha.
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Post by chinsight on May 6, 2015 3:54:53 GMT
"they are currently at the age where nothing is enough - I can give them the whole room and that wont be enough space for them"
Oooooh I remember those years. Our chins would fight us on everything. They were so opinionated, bossy, and stubborn. Don't you bite that woodwork!!! They knew what it meant and still would put 2 notches in it with their teeth and run away. Ours still are fiends for chemicals. Nail polish, the smell of nail polish remover. rubbing alcohol, band-aids. lipstick... They just want to smell it and will throw a fit if you don't let them. They tried to rip out my eyelashes when I had mascara on. The male so sweetly came up and starred at my eyelashes... Then decided he wanted them for keeps and grabbed them with his paws. The male would also bite my laptop wire and I didn't know it until something was zinging my leg. I looked and it was the computer wire exposed. He would chew the rubber cord until he got zapped and run away. The he would come back and do it again and again. He liked the zing it gave him. After that we had to watch them both like hawks for years because they couldn't be trusted.
Chins are like kids.... When they are quiet and out of sight you know they are doing something they shouldn't be.
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Post by natnat899 on May 8, 2015 9:55:10 GMT
Haha, that is exactly how mine are - they look at me before they chew the skirting boards, or tear the wallpaper off the walls - they know they are being naughty!
I have been lucky with live wires, they mainly leave them alone - even still I hide or move them, I wouldent want them to be electrocuted. Same again with chemicals - I rarely use make-up or nail varnish, so they have never smelt it before. I always spray perfume and deodorant in a different room, because I read somewhere that it isnt good for their little lungs.
"Chins are like kids.... When they are quiet and out of sight you know they are doing something they shouldn't be."
Yes, it always worries me if I don't hear the patter of their feet, lol
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