Saint drinking out of the faucet

My chinchilla drinks water out of the faucet. She's making a noise which is either 'something new' or 'irritation', or maybe both. The other one makes that noise after I clean and rearrange her cage.

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Pets & Animals

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• chinchilla
• drinking
• noises
• cute
• animal
• pet
• chin

[madena3]

@cuppycake1231 If they only drink filtered water they can suffer from mineral deficiencies. My city water is clean. Do more research.

[madena3]

@SerriSoo11 SHE IS NOT GOING TO DIE, EVEN IF SHE FALLS IN 3 DROPS OF WATER. IT IS CALLED A TOWEL. MOLD WILL NOT GROW IF YOU DRY THEM OFF.

[rchodges]

SO PRECIOUS!!!!

[kizzyizzle64]

lovely colors on her :) the noise is from her scraping/cleaning her teeth off...all mine do it too after drinking and sometimes when they get a raisin.... its not a sound of annoyance at all, shes just grooming her teeth :) no worries

[madena3]

@xXskycakeXx Haha, yes, but she's obviously loving it. She is a weirdo.

[madena3]

@mewecody123 This is actually getting really amazing. Do you seriously not think things can be dried off? In the wild they DO get wet. Then they sit in the sun and take baths when they can. Their hair doesn't EXPLODE when they get wet - it takes days to mold. If you dry them off quickly, they are just fine. The domestic enemy of the chinchilla is not a tiny trickle of tap water - it is the toilet. And yes, I have chinchillas. I did not steal these videos.

[madena3]

@mewecody123 If only, in this day and age, we could invent some sort of device that dries hair. Some sort of hair dryer? Or maybe some sort of absorbent material that, when pressed against liquid, would soak up most of the moisture, thus allowing the remaining moisture to evaporate quickly?

[mewecody123]

@madena3 They survive in the andes by drinking out of puddles and water holes, you are right about that. but in the andes they dont worry about running water. Chinchillas can tell its going to rain before it does. So they hide. And there aren't towels and hairdryers in the andes either idiot.

[mewecody123]

@madena3 I dont know what im talking about? The whole point of the dust bath is so they dont get wet, they cant get wet because they dont dry off! You obviously dont have chinchillas. You should read a book before you start running your mouth. D-bag.

[stacyson69]

Well u don't mean soaked, but like dampened wash cloth or something

[stacyson69]

Oh and I've seen plenty of things about chinchillas, you can get them wet if they are drastically dirty, too dirty for the dust to get them clean, doesn't kill them....so when I see one die from a little trickle of water I will believe u.

[stacyson69]

Hahah, yeah a small trickle isn't going to get them soaked, and sick. And u can dry them off, the only way it gets them sick, is if u leave them soaked. But I love this video once again she's or he's cute.