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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 9:45:05 GMT
I am trying to rescue or adopt some chinchillas and this is a harder task than I imagined it would be. I have someone desperate for me to have her 4 year old chin. Notts doesn't have any. The other rescue near me won't answer me, emails texts or calls, after suddenly stopping replying. Do I take the 4 year old chin and work on getting him a friend? He's a neutered male. I obviously have experience introducing degus but not chinchillas lol. She needs an answer today as she has others interested but she'd rather he went to me. I could then work on getting a rescue male or female to go with him. Nobody seems to want to co-operate on the rescue front, I appreciate people get busy but it's not hard to text back to confirm. 😫😫😫 darthchinchi thoughts?
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Post by randomname on Jul 12, 2017 10:12:49 GMT
On a scale of 1 - 10, how much do you hate doing intros? Mine is a 10 - hate it, one of the worst parts of critter wrangling. I would avoid it at all costs. It all depends how up for the challenge you are? Intros are similar to degus but there will be a ton of fur everywhere (google fur slip) & you could end up with 2 that just won't get along, what do you do then? Only you can make the decision hun.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 10:13:31 GMT
About a 5 and a half lol
I can take it or leave it depends on what/why. X
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Post by darthchinchi on Jul 12, 2017 10:23:25 GMT
My personal experience: Chinchillas do not need friends to be happy. They have been bred to be more social. Exactly how social they are in nature is a bit unclear. They live in colonies, this much we know. Females are the territorial ones. They may or may not live in small family groups with their daughters. Social behaviour in the males is even more unclear. My personal thought is that they have territories larger than the females and they overlap with more females territories.
I have a lone female. I've had lone animals before. Most animals thrive both alone and with a friend. If they have a friend and end up being alone they can become depressed. Some animals only thrive alone and some only in pairs.
Problem with introducing is they might not like each other. If they do not like each other there is really nothing you can do about it. If something goes wrong and one get mad at the other chances are you will never be able to introduce them. Not saying introduction is not possible. It is. There is a couple of different techniques.
I would just keep him on his own. If you find an other chin at some point you could try introduction. For now I think he will be fine.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 10:57:27 GMT
darthchinchi he had a friend who died last year suddenly. I'll keep him alone and work on a friend over the long-term, someone close who wouldn't mind me trialling it and if they didn't get on they had the other chin back etc. thanks! He's coming next Thursday
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Post by darthchinchi on Jul 12, 2017 11:21:16 GMT
If he is not depressed now I wouldn't worry. Sometimes chinchillas starte thriving after they loose a friend. It doesn't happen often, but it is something I've experienced personally and know one other who experienced the same.
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Post by winic1 on Jul 12, 2017 12:51:12 GMT
(Now, Emily, be assured I am laughing and this is just friendly teasing...)
To introduce another, you will need another cage. Then, when they finally get together, you will have an empty cage. An empty cage is just NO good, now is it, sitting there, all alone and sad because it is empty. So then you need to make that empty cage happy, which means you will need someone to fill it. And then they will need a buddy. And the buddy will need a new cage until they get introduced.
And then you will have an empty cage....
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Post by darthchinchi on Jul 12, 2017 13:23:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 13:55:18 GMT
Lol 😂 a zoo in the making.
Could I cut the Aventura in half for introducing? 🤔 is it the same problem as with degus in that they need to be side by side?
If not I have the lazybones I could use temporarily to go by the side - and I definitely wouldn't want to fill them 😂😂😂 xx
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Post by darthchinchi on Jul 12, 2017 14:10:48 GMT
Intro possibilities: Side by side cages Switching cages each day Runtime on neutral ground Small box-intro where you put two chinchillas in a box where they can't really move, and let them sniff it out Big cage/small cage where you place one chinchilla in a smaller cage inside the other chinchillas cage
Most of them can be mixed with each other. These are the most common ways of trying to introduce.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 15:03:38 GMT
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