Hi everyone,
So I adopted my two female chinchillas(under a year old) two months ago and I just wanted to know if laying down on the tummy non stop for a good 20 minutes straight after being let out is normal. I know that some of these things vary from chinchilla to chinchilla, and I also read online that they may do this from overheating after being let out, but my basement is very cool, and they have never done this before.
When I let them out tonight, (which I do in an enclosed corridor blocked by a door) they were absolutely normal. As usual they probed the place for any way out, but today one of my chinchillas actually succeeded in escaping under the door. Please understand that for the two months I've been letting them out there, they have never made it under-I though it was impossible! The gap there is hardly an inch wide! After she escaped I went to catch her before she chewed through anything. It turns out she managed to get two decent bites of fresh pine...I know this is very unsafe for them because they can only have kiln dried pine but by the time I got there she was already at it. After this I safely put them both back in their cages, but the one who ate the pine just became very sleepy and slow. She kept lying down on her tummy and closing her eyes as if to sleep. If I made noise her ears would perk up like normal and she would move a little, but almost immediately she would lay down again, and she repeated this process for the ten minutes I stood there before I left her to rest. Coming back half an hour later, she is much improved but still a little slower than usual.
She is always my active chinchilla, always running around and alert, even when tired, so I have never seen her like this before. Maybe it was the pine that did this, or the shock from me immediately picking her up quickly after she escaped, or maybe....maybe she really is tired even though she ran very little. Could someone please provide some insight? Thank you!
So I adopted my two female chinchillas(under a year old) two months ago and I just wanted to know if laying down on the tummy non stop for a good 20 minutes straight after being let out is normal. I know that some of these things vary from chinchilla to chinchilla, and I also read online that they may do this from overheating after being let out, but my basement is very cool, and they have never done this before.
When I let them out tonight, (which I do in an enclosed corridor blocked by a door) they were absolutely normal. As usual they probed the place for any way out, but today one of my chinchillas actually succeeded in escaping under the door. Please understand that for the two months I've been letting them out there, they have never made it under-I though it was impossible! The gap there is hardly an inch wide! After she escaped I went to catch her before she chewed through anything. It turns out she managed to get two decent bites of fresh pine...I know this is very unsafe for them because they can only have kiln dried pine but by the time I got there she was already at it. After this I safely put them both back in their cages, but the one who ate the pine just became very sleepy and slow. She kept lying down on her tummy and closing her eyes as if to sleep. If I made noise her ears would perk up like normal and she would move a little, but almost immediately she would lay down again, and she repeated this process for the ten minutes I stood there before I left her to rest. Coming back half an hour later, she is much improved but still a little slower than usual.
She is always my active chinchilla, always running around and alert, even when tired, so I have never seen her like this before. Maybe it was the pine that did this, or the shock from me immediately picking her up quickly after she escaped, or maybe....maybe she really is tired even though she ran very little. Could someone please provide some insight? Thank you!
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