#Chinchilla care

[littlealienproducts]

If your guinea pig could make a wishlist - it would include these goodies!

Nature's Bites Variety Pack - Fruit and Vegetable Mix for Small Pets

Timothy Hay

Very Berry Butterflies Hay Cookies

Sea Grass Enrichment Mat

Wooden Castle

Foraging Toy

Wooden Hay Corner Hidey

#small pet #pet #pets #pocket pet #guinea pig #guinea pigs #rat #rats #rabbit #ferret #chinchilla #chipmunk #lizard #exotic pet #vet #pet supplies #pet food #guinea pig care #pet care

[mildcicada]

#when i was first coloring him in he was gonna be golden chinchilla colored but then i was like ehhh jonah magnus should be red/orange but #elias should be gray ...so i just desaturated what i already did instead of recoloring lol but #he is now supposed to be shaded silver lol #but thats why his coat pattern is on the darker side compared to what it *should* be #og elias bouchard coming from an important/roch family and while whole thing with thinking he just *deserves* stuff bc of his upbringing. #etc. -> he is purebred and matches the breed standards etc for a scottish fold of his color #obviously the eye color doesn't matter because. ahaha #i thought elias fit the Scottish fold vibes because: Scottish folds are known for looking sort of like owls and having intense eyes #and the cat body/face type (also present in british shorthairs) to me gives off sort of... unnasumming vibes? #like ahaha yes i am a boring boss who loves paperwork look at how unnasumming i am season 1-2 elias y'know #trying to think of what cat breed jonah would be. and also jon gerry etc you know all the other characters i like #would it be boring to have multiple british shorthairs #i mean.. #Michael shelley/distortion is a laperm that's all I know #i didn't particularly care with the personality attributes associated with eliascat because it didn't need to fit his personality on account #of not being his original body. but i do try to keep in mind the best personality/look/etc. cat attributes as a whole for a character #also sometimes get obsessed with jt making historical and geographical sense but then it just limits me greatly to a point im not into it #so i don't care about specific breeds in that respect lol #tma #my art #elias bouchard #the magnus archives #some notes looking back(made it 2 hours ago but still looking back ok..) on it now are that i feel like elias would never choose this breed #for his next bodyhop because of the inherent health issues in scottish folds. I saw the breed was created in like the early 1960s and #assumed that maybe the health issues wouldn't have been common knowledge until later enough for jonah to be unaware of them but actually no #there's legislation about it like 6 years later LOL so jonah would..maybe not make this choice #i guess in the future when drawing i will just make him a British shorthair #my catTMA is simultaneously 'they are just regular cats or like all show cats or something' and 'exact tma plot but as intelligent cats' #LOL its just vague in my mind idk..also maybe jon can be an Abyssinian #ALSO WHAT WAS I THINKING 'jonah may not have been aware about x thing' like did i...did i forget. me 2 hours ago was dumb as rocks

[alanaisalive]

Chinchilla PSA

Please do not watch TikTok and Instagram videos and buy a chinchilla because you think they look so cute and friendly. On several chinchilla forums lately, I've seen questions like, "I've had my chinchilla for 2 weeks now. When does it start getting cuddly and friendly?" The answer is "never."

Chinchillas are not cuddly and friendly. They do not like being touched. They will tolerate light scritches and that's about it. The ones you see being so cute on TikTok? Those are like 20 seconds cut from hours of footage of the chinchilla being a little jerk. A small number of mostly male chinchillas are a little bit calmer, but generally, they are extremely nervous prey animals who will never completely trust you.

I'm saying this as someone who has owned and loved chinchillas for over 10 years. They are adorable and fluffy and also often bitey little assholes who pee at you when they're mad. I love them, but they are not good beginner pets, and they are definitely not for everyone.

#chinchillas #chinchilla #pet care #these guys are criminals #and your house will be full of fluff and dust #and you will find poop in your pockets and shoes

[orange-sodazz]

ratty my love

#rat #rat rat boys #disney ratld #ratld #i sell dick rates #rodents #rated5 #fancy rat #mice #raccoon #lab rats #chinchilla #bear in the big blue house #muscle bear #armadillo #otter #canine #chain #pig #care bears #cartoon

[sangfielle]

Ogh i want so many animals. right now the one i want the most is the pink toe tarantula that we have at the store thats basically already my pet but i also want one million others

#anoles and beardies and lleopard geckos and crawdads and finches and canaries and RATS and a chinchilla and some more fish and some crabs #and maybe a couple of dwarf frogs... #a scorpion would bne so cool but i would have to do some serious research about that i dont know how to take care of those #ohhh also tortoises. theyre so cute #i love conures but i really dont think people are equipped to provide for them caring for the conure we have at the store just makes me sad #personal

[dilfenthusiast]

Just found out rabbits are actually kind of difficult and expensive to keep :/ cats only it is then

#I love a low maintenance animal #NAWT that all cats are set and forget #but they’re fairly easy to keep #I defo can’t do lizards or amphibians #fish are trickier than I like #don’t like dogs #do not want some small exotic #don’t really want a bird #I don’t care for rodents #well small rodents anyway. chinchillas seem cool but I’m sure their as difficult as rabbits #well

[bazpitch]

btw guysss i got ghosted but i still need to tell them that chinchillas are social because they only have oneeee 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

#i don't care outside of the chinchilla thing

[untoterxhund]

gonna be my last post as I'll still be actively mourning the loss. my first morning without him is incredibly lonely, don't know what it is but in the back of my mind i can still hear him huffing and panting through the humid summer heat-

#010 //: out of character. #what happens after your service dog forcibly retires. like i don't think i can go through this again if i were to go for another pet #none of them lasted as long as him. the cat wasn't as friendly or caring as him. the rat was a rat. the chinchilla could care less #but him? he cared about me more than a lot of my friends ever did and that stings now that i've sat and collected my thoughts #i miss almost tripping over his massive bear body in the middle of the night. waking up to him next to me in bed #it's been fun y'all. i'll see you later. good bye.

[sweet-milky-tea705]

Remind me to never get fucking chickens. God.

#theyre so messy and gross #the person who takes care of these ones does a very shoddy job. #ive never had to care for chickens and just doing it a little bit today was ughhh #chinchillas are pretty alright though if you have a vacuum

[itsalongwaytotipperary]

1899 character headcanons part III (this might be the last part until I can think up some more)

Daniel likes opera. The entire family likes opera and Elliot is the only child allowed in the opera bc he is just so well mannered

While with Elliot, Daniel and Maura watch musicals. Elliot’s favorite is Mary Poppins :)

But when they’re alone they like La Cenerentola by Rossini because they are nerds in love

Ramiro’s favorite animals are chinchillas

Ramiro has a really good memory

Ángel’s got a good memory too, but only when he’s not lost in thought (which is a lot of the time), and only about some things (Ramiro).

#1899 #character headcanons #daniel 1899 #maura 1899 #elliot 1899 #Ángel 1899 #ramiro 1899 #I know chinchillas are not found in Portugal/Spain #but i don't care okay #if Ramiro knew what a chinchilla was he would be in love with them

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #7544

 Because I still haven't adopted a chinchilla yet! – Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.)

#sad #help #hope #reason to live #depressed #depression #empty #alone #mental illness #anxiety #trauma #guest submission #mental health #adoption #adopt #chinchilla #pets #animals #care #love #enrichment #adorab

[blujayonthewing]

one downside of deciding one of my OCs' dads is a dentist is that I've spent more time than I ever would have expected thinking about the biology of different fantasy races' teeth

#elves gnomes and dwarves all live for centuries! WHAT is their tooth situation like #there's no way they all get their one(1) set of humanlike grownup teeth by age ~10 and have to take care of them for HUNDREDS OF YEARS?? #I have already decided in my heart to lean into my semi-accidental design decision of gnomes having slightly bucky teeth #and say that they do also grow consistently over time and need to be worn down like rodent teeth #but what about molars then? apparently guinea pig and chinchilla's molars ALSO grow continuously #and there are a coupleof mammals who lose and regrow teeth-- only like three but among them elephants which live a really long time #what about elves? and dwarves? well-- what are their diets like? #AND THE PROBLEM ISSS I don't actually KNOW ENOUGH about TEETH to feel confident doing speculative biology about them #I only know enough to know that they probably NEED some kind of speculative biology done on their teeth shdlfjsldj #maybe elves were the first peoples to invent toothbrushes man idk #about me #worldbuilding #gnome stuff #melliwyk #tukklewyn

[theriu]

This seems like a great educational opportunity for chinchilla lovers and potential owners. That idea that a chinchilla will die if it gets wet? It’s a doofy myth. Chewie here is about eight years old and this is probably the fifth or sixth time she has managed to dunk herself over her lifetime.

And before anyone yells at me for “letting this happen,” I would like to point out that I was in that bathroom with her for several flippin’ HOURS of her bouncing around, as happy and agile as can be, only for her to finally mistime a jump and do a looney tunes slide into the water. Much to my momentary alarm and later amusement.

Anyway, she has never suffered any ill effects from her watery encounters; I just dry her off and keep her FAR away from her dust bath, as I assume that would create Problems until she has dried off naturally. So if you let your chinchilla loose in the bathroom with the toilet seat up or the bath drawn, don’t fret! They just jump out again and they dry off like any other mammal. (Yes even the tub; I think I can safely confirm from two incidences that chinchillas know how to swim. But of course don’t leave them ALONE in a room with a bath, better safe than sorry! They can 100% jump out of toilets though, can confirm.)

This has been a myth-debunking PSA with Pikachewbacca. I’m gonna go give her a pretzel stick to console her in her dampness, though she seems quite philosophical and has just finished a refreshing run on her wheel.

#chinchillas #chinchilla #pet care #pet myths #wet chinchilla #chewie #pikachewbacca

[gisdotnet]

Yo what if I got a praying mantis,,,,,,

#Yes we have Chinchillas as pets but. But mantis’s are really cheap to own as pets and are relatively easy to take care of #Can you tell that I was thinking about this during class

[teehee]

i’ve only seen and held those extremely tiny robo hamsters (my friend had one named francis) so when i first saw a regular sized hamster IRL i got so scared

#tuna.txt #rn my friend has a chinchilla named todd and he is so sweet and soft #she’s had so many rodent pets and she takes such good care of them #but i miss her guinea pigs so much :( they both passed away together #she got them when they were babies and they were the most social snuggly things ever #rodents

[almyranpine]

starting up a horse tag so you guys can mute as you see fit <3 i grew up being a horse girl (who has owned seven irl horses, jesus) and while i have grown mostly out of it they still hold such a place in my heart. tumblr is great i love that it allows you to find people posting about obscure fandoms. like i religiously watched spirit. i read the bella sara books over and over and still have them. i played so much howrse. i can never truly escape

#horses aren’t my favourite animals anymore but they’re still up there and i still know so much about them #actually i don’t want to rank animals so yeah they are one of my favourites #im a big fan of cows now. #frogs are fun too. #always liked cats #and guardians of gahoole made me care about owls an unhealthy amount #OH and chinchillas. #grey talks