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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Denmark
Age: 34
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Chinchillas do not pee that much, but they poop all the time.
Their stomach is very small, but they have a big appendix where they digest most of their food via bacteria.
However their intestines have a problem absorbing the nutrition from the digested material that comes out of their appendix. This causes the poop too pass rather fast trough the system, so the animal can eat the poop (like rabbits), to get the nutrition it needs from the poop.
You can teach a chinchilla to use a toilet (some you can't), and they will use this to pee in. But you can't teach them to poop here.
The poop shouldn't be a problem though. It's not that wet when it comes out, and keeps on looking like poop. It's not like what you would see from a dog or cat.
If it's wet like what you find from a dog or a cat, something's wrong and you need to go to the vet.
/Pia
I apologized if my english is not correct
Owned by chinchillas since 1997
Breeding since 2005
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