**fighting chins**

[natnat899]

The death of your chinchilla sounds like it could have been heatstroke.

I have a few questions:

Did you go through any of the introduction processes? (I.e. Cage side by side) to get them used to eachother.
If so what stage are you at?

Have you quarantined your new chinchilla? (It is recommended to do so to reduce the risk of illnesses spreading from the new chinchilla to your current chinchilla)

And was the fighting serious?

[chinsight]

A few things.... You have to take the cage and scrub it and rub the entire cage down with rubbing alcohol. It still has the smell of the chinchilla that passed away. If you have two males you may have a hard time getting them to accept each other if ever with all that territorial / testerone running around. When we lost our other male we had to tear down and scrub the cage, then we put a wire fence in to separated the cage in 1/2. We brought a new male in and put him on one side and the female on the other. She wanted him DEAD. She HATED him but eventually after about 5 days she calmed down and slowly she accepted the new male. It may be just too soon after the death to bring a new one in but sometimes chins never accept each other especially if they are the same sex. Hopefully that won't be your case.