Male chins fighting.

[jmadams]

I have two male chinchillas. Ones a year, and the other is 3 years old. They are in seperate cages, but we let them run abou the living room once in a while. Normaly they are fine, and stay on opposite sides of the room and play on there own. then the 1 year old will come over to the older one and they seem to be fine, just smelling each other. they then seem to play for a few minutes, then the older one gets board and turns away, then the younger one will jump on the other and starts to click, and bite the older ones front paws. its like the younger one likes to bully the other. Is there anyway to ween them into each other so we can have them out at the same time with out this happening? the older on just seems more laid back. could it be the age defference?

 

[Heartfang]

With my experience with chinchilas, I would say no. I hated the little buggers. I had 3, and then bred the female, and got 2 more. That was about... 5 too many. They always peed on everything and I hated them. They have real accurate shots with their pee too. Anyways, I do not think there is anyway to teach them to "play nice." If I were you, I would just keep them seperated. Males don't like to get along as I learned when one of mine died in a brutal fight between two of the males. Had to get rid of them after that, cause I couldn't stand them.

 

[jmadams]

I have had two other males and they never pee'd everywhere, and never tried to pee on me or my wife. You can train them to pee in one corner of there cage, so its easy to clean up. I am going to have them both nutered so I don't think "spraying" will be a problem.

thanks for the input. Anyway, I guess I will just have to have them out at different times.

 

[Wolfchan]

Yeah, in my experience, male chins generally just don't get along.