Breeding Attacks-graphic

Although people will always tell you breeding attacks can occur, I haven’t seen much out there on what they can look like. I want to let you know these things are real, and breeding can cause severe injury or death.

Moxie

This is Moxie, a 1st place standard female who was 874 grams. She had been with her group for 13 months when this happened February 2007. I came home from work on a Friday evening, and had to drive 30 miles to get her to an emergency vet who would see chinchillas. We arrived at the vet in another state at 10:30 and she came home with us at 6:30 the next morning. Our vet had switched clinics, and we were unaware until we called that night. Because there was so much damage to her head, they had to stitch around the ears, down the side of her neck, and she was living on a towel. No dust baths for 2 months. We had to fight abcesses and do draining. She had both internal and external sutures.

These images were taken the morning we got home from the vet.

5 weeks from attack

June 28, 2007

Moxie is now 956 grams and completely recovered, although her fur is still not completely grown in. She is still not back in breeding, but we are looking at putting her with a standard male later this summer.