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MarchHare
07-05-2005, 01:26 PM
Heya there! I think I joined chins-n-quills before, but I couldn't remember my name or password, so I figured I'd start over and take a name & password I remembered.

Our chins are Rosco & Silky, both female as far as we know; one was a sort of rescue from the acquaintance of a friend, and the other was store bought because there were no other female chins in need of rescue for months when we were looking for company for Rosco.

I will post something in the "fosters wanted" section, but just as a quick note, our situation stands thus: The two chins had love at first sight, but things went downhill from there; they still aren't bonded, and it's been about a year. We have a small child and a rabbit, and while the rabbit can roam free, the chins cannot for their own safety, so we're stuck trying to juggle two chin run-times, cleaning out the two cages, and we haven't had the time to try further bonding sessions. What we need is someone who has a lot of experience with chins, loves them very much, and preferably has bonded pairs before to do a long-term (possibly permanent?) foster, because we love these two chins so much, and we haven't been able to devote the time to them that they need: the solution is to find someone who can give them a better home, at least until we get things more settled and can really give these chins a good home (and when our toddler learns not to grab).

So that's the short of it, and I hope to find resources here - if not connecting up with a person who can do it, someone who can point us in the right direction.

-March Hare

tamsam
07-06-2005, 12:25 AM
Hi march hare and family... i wish we could help ya. but can not but send u thoughts andbest wished and welcome again to the site.... good luck on finding someone for the chins take care tam sam and capi toooooooooo,,,,,,,,,ps by the way where are u located...

Littlebubbles
07-06-2005, 12:42 AM
I know you probably tried everything you could think of already to get them together, but i recently have gotten two chins that HATED each other to be the best of friends. They would spray each other and everything! I was gonna try smooshing but i couldnt get them both in a small container without one jumping out before i got it closed. Anyway, one day i was giving one a dust bath when the other jumped it with her. I kept them in there for about 10 minutes and now they love each other. I know this wasnt the help you were asking for, and i wish you the best of luck in finding a foster home for your little chinnies! :)

MarchHare
07-11-2005, 07:04 PM
Actually, that helps a lot. It was so confising because they seemed to have love at first sight, and as time went on they liked each other less and less to the point where the new one would swear (in Chin-ish, of course) at Rosco. But I hadn't thought of the dust bath thing... We''ll try it; it would at least be nice to have them in one cage and keeping each other company. :)

-March Hare

Le'ah
07-11-2005, 09:20 PM
Hmmmmmm......maybe one of them just started "puberty" or something? lol....Whereas before, there weren't dominance issues, there could be now. I don't know how old your chins are though...so I could be wrong. Then again, I could be wrong anyway. LoL ....

What I would find disturbing is not knowing for sure that both my chins were females. First of all, if you have a male and don't know it, he probably needs to be checked for hair rings....and secondly, you wouldn't want to put them together unless you were COMPLETELY ready for what could happen if/when they breed. Just make sure that you have 2 females for certain...then start trying to re-introduce them. :)

You could also try the "smoosh" method. It worked for me before with 2 males...Of course, I have reason to believe that it didn't last long after they moved to a new home. But they were okay here. Maybe you could smoosh them together and they would be fine afterward as soon as you didn't have to move. There is a lot of info on smooshing all over this forum....just search it!

Hope that helps....if the dustbath thing didn't...smart idea though.