Just curious....

[panda]

My little kismet is going to be 4 months old as of September 5 and i cant help but feel he is a little lonely. He came from a home where he was with his two siblings and his mom still, and then went to living alone. I think he has adjusted well, but i cant help but feel bad a little.

If i wanted to get another chinchilla when would be the best time, i adore kismet and i would adore getting him a friend to add to my little family. I just wanted to ask ... i am really a new owner and i dont want to do anything that would be harmful to my little prince (i dubbed him prince kismet because he has such a little attitude!)

[tagna]

they are addictive aren't they?

I haven't had any experience with the baby chins but I know many member have gone ahead and adpopted a second chin after getting a baby chinchilla. You just have to make sure you do quarantine (30 days) and always be prepared that your two chins may not get along. Intros can take a long time.
I have an extra cage in case Loki and Hestia decide they don't want to be roomies anymore.

[Carol~Anne]

I had only one chinchilla for three plus years and he was totally fine. Mind you, he got loads of attention and had out of cage time every single night.

If yours seems happy and content, then he probably is and he'll be fine by himself as long as he gets lots of interaction with you. I don't think there's any rush to run out and get another one just yet unless maybe you think he's not getting enough attention from you.

If you do decide to get another one, you'll have to be prepared that they might not get along and they'll have to live separately.

After three plus years, I did introduce my single guy to two boys aged nine months and a year old. I took the intros slowly and it was a bumpy process but it all worked out well.

[Inked Up Tara]

I agree with CA, Fuzzy likes and needs to be alone, I think a lot of times we place our emotions on our animals, and see only one and think they must be lonely. I am all for adding to your chinnie clan lol, just as CA said, make sure you are prepared that they might not ever get along. Good luck, have you put any thought into a color you may want to get or no?

[panda]

I think Ill give it a while longer, i take him out as much as i can after work to play with him and he has his toys , its just sometimes when im getting ready to go to sleep he kinda watches me and hops around his cage pawing at the bars wanting out to play more and i guess i felt bad he had no one of his own to bug while i sleep. ^__^ you might be right about the putting our own emotions on our animals.

As for chinnies they are addictive, id always wanted one for a very long time, but had my friends chinchilla Yitzhack to fawn over. Id love to have more than one, but i think that will have to wait until i move away from home and have a bigger place just incase they dont get along.

As for colours....Ive never thought color mattered with a chin. I wouldnt mind just an adorible Standard, Kismet is a White Violet. Id gotten him from Garden City Chinchilla's. His mum was a chin named carmen and his daddy was socrates...Id honestly never seen a picture of him until i picked him up...everyone kept asking me what if i didnt liked the way he looked...but i honestly never thought that mattered.. -___- now if only he wasnt scared of my camera i could show you all what he looks like. Everytime i take a picture its a shot of his bum as he scuttles away as if to say 'oh noes a camera!'

[LotsofChins]

We'll take a bum picture! Chinnie bums are cute!

[baileysmommy]

i was told to do it before they go thru chin puberty at 6 months. Its easier to get them together that way... but i guess nothing is 100% ...but id listen to the people on this site they know what they are talking about ;D

[mistywaterwoman]

I was convinced when I got Sally that she was lonely. She had been living with Amy at the pet store for a month, and I felt REALLY bad about seperating them. It took me about 2 weeks to convince my hubby that she missed her friend, and then I went back and got Amy, too. There WAS a noticable difference in Sally's behaviour after she and Amy were reintroduced. She got perkier.

The risk you take in getting another chin is that they won't like each other and you'll have to keep two seperate cages forever. If you're willing to risk that, then go for it! Remember the 30 day quarantine - seperate cage in a seperate room - so you don't put Kismet at risk.

[tagna]

My boyfriend loves Quarantine-I can't sneak them in because of it.

[Cailet]

I was one who felt Kari was lonely from being with others to a only chin. She hated me leaving her which is why i got Sandy

[chichichinchilla]

We used to think Macy was lonely for a while then after quarantine was over and she got supervised play time with the other chins she just did her own things and didn't want anything to do with the others. She just went and sat somewhere by herself. So after a while with playtime like that we decided that she just likes being by herself.
Though Bonnie would love to give Macy a friend so she would have a cage-mate she doesn't think Macy will like that very much.

[partygirlha]

Aug 21, 2008 20:28:55 GMT -5 @tagna said:

My boyfriend loves Quarantine-I can't sneak them in because of it.

LOL

[lilkody]

I am in the same predicement as you..I want a companion for my guy (I watched a video to double check that he is a male) but I do worry about the compatablility issues. I am the first to say that I have no room to put in another large cage if they don't get along, never mind the expense of buying double supplies. So you have to seriously consider that and the above posts have covered that for me as well. I have to hold off, as much as I hate it. I just can't afford to take the chance they won't get along