Chinchilla Matted Fur Under Chin

My chinchilla bella is 4 this year and when i first bought her she seemed to be fine.

Chinchilla matted fur under chin.

She drinks a lot and eats alright but not sure. Im not sure what this is maybe its malocclusion. Now her chin is wet and i think its drooling. Then under her chin she had matted fur.

The new strands push the old out of the way. The hard part is finding the issue. Isolate the chinchilla and put a collar on him. Step 4 isolate the matted clump of hair from your cat s coat.

Last night i noticed a hard spot under my chin s belly and at first it felt like a piece of poop got stuck in his fur. I went to check it out and it seems to be a little matted spot of fur. First fur chewing in chinchillas is a common behavioral problem in which they chew on their own or their cage mates fur so that the haircoat looks patchy. Then her whiskers broke and they haven t grown back since.

In perfect conditions chinchillas prime 1 3 of their fur every 90 days. Fur priming is when a chinchilla sheds it s old fur and replaces it with a new coat. I also noticed a patch with no fur under her chin. Season temperature or humidity change will cause a chin to prime earlier or later than normal.

Because these animals evolved in a low humidity environment they have difficulty coping with extremely different climate conditions. Feel around your cat s legs under its chin below its tail on its tummy and on the sides of its body. High humidity can affect a chinchilla s coat by creating thick clumps or mats that can be difficult to groom. When there is dental disease they will drool and drop water food so that they get this classic matting under the chin and on the chest.

How to quickly and easily remove mats from a chinchilla. Hold it in one hand and use your fingers to loosen and pull away as many hairs as you can from the tangled ball of fur. Hair growing back into the chewed regions may be shorter and darker than the original fur. Clumped or matted fur.

Her paws also. This is almost surely due to dental disease in chinchilla s. Chewing occurs most often over the back and tail but can occur anywhere on the body. It feels kind of like plastic is stuck in it but i m positive that s not the case.