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sacredcreatures
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Hi all, I need to Vent. I had 12 chinchilla's, 2 different cage setups. and mysteriously one by one of the one cage set ups started dying( within two days)I couldn't get them to a Vet because it was A holiday weekend. First it was my normal male Stormy, I just couldn't believe it and the next day I noticed one of his twin Mosiac boys acting listless, so I made a Hospital cage and did a check up. There wasn't any symptoms other than listless so I put it in the warmer room and kept a eye on them One died that night and the other died the next morning. Prior to that my female Myst had 5 babies which is very unusal and I figured we would lose one or two since a chin can't handle that many babies and even though I would start feeding them there was two very tiny sickly babies. The next morning when the other twin died two babies died and then the rest that night, next day was my beloved Myst died! Chins are very hardy and of course I needed to find out what happened so I sent them for a Autopsy. My other chins (I have three left). Breezy(mom)normal, Velvet (dad) he is a black velvet/ebony and smokee their normal daughter. They are all fine. I just got the results: Poisoning from a bug spray( organic bug spray go figure!) that says its safe around animals but I keep telling my husband not to use it too close to their house. Well he is devastated as am I. I feel so bad that such a thing has happened. Even though I had planned to sell the young from the adults I had I certainly didn't want this to happen. Poor babies! Anyways other than venting please keep in mind that NO bug spray is safe at all! Thanks for letting me vent. Deb 
