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09-16-2005, 09:36 PM
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#1 | | Newbie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston
Posts: 34
| check this out
 i thought yall would like to see this website i didn't know chinnies ate all of that stuff it says!!!  http://www.chinchillas-chinchillas.com/
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09-16-2005, 10:21 PM
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#2 | | Head of the BTI : Bureau of Troll Investigations
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Brampton, Ontario Age: 51
Posts: 3,589
| You own a chinchilla and you don't know their dietary requirements? | |
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09-17-2005, 10:17 AM
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#3 | | Newbie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston
Posts: 34
| hi
i do but i didn't know they ate roots and those stuff in the wild | |
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09-23-2005, 02:14 AM
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#4 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Lebanon, OR
Posts: 25
| I know what you mean - moss?? Does moss really sound appetizing? Then again, I don't really think chin pellets look that great either. I'd also never heard of anyone giving frozen fruit to their pet chins. | |
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09-23-2005, 04:24 PM
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#5 | | Dangerously Devilish!
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Mississauga, Ontario
Posts: 5,650
| Just because something is on one site doesn't make it true. The key with anything, is to research it once you find out something new. They are a little too generous with their 'captive chinchilla diet" (cookies????). As for the wild diet, they are herbavours and do eat plant material in their area, though I would imagine moss is not common. Grasses, some root matter and the fleashier plants for water consumption. | |
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09-23-2005, 04:27 PM
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#6 | | Member
Join Date: May 2004 Location: San Diego, CA Age: 32
Posts: 1,437
| well, to be fair, it doesn't really say what kind of cookies...that's kind of a broad term and could mean anything, really | |
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09-23-2005, 06:34 PM
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#7 | | Slave to Bronco and Buddy
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Halifax Age: 27
Posts: 5,454
| I would also caution that pet chinchillas are very different from wild chinchilla and probably couldn't handle the same foods that the wild ones can handle.
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09-23-2005, 07:55 PM
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#8 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Lebanon, OR
Posts: 25
| Yeah - you can't trust most of what you read. I was wondering if anyone else had ever heard of frozen fruit - not that I think it's a good idea. After all, my first chin book shows the chins munching on a whole peach - I wonderred how they could research a whole book and be that far off on diet. | |
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09-23-2005, 08:07 PM
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#9 | | Slave to Bronco and Buddy
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Halifax Age: 27
Posts: 5,454
| I've given Buddy frozen raisins. They don't really freeze that well though...
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09-23-2005, 08:16 PM
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#10 | | Dangerously Devilish!
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Mississauga, Ontario
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Originally Posted by najiwench well, to be fair, it doesn't really say what kind of cookies...that's kind of a broad term and could mean anything, really | That's the problem, I mean when I hear the term 'cookie' I picture chocolate chip and I bet 99% of the newbies that read it think that too  | |
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