I for a while now, i have always wanted a chinchilla, well i saw a while, more like a life long dream, and my first was perriwinkle the violet male, sadly he had to be sold as i was moving and could not take him with me. but a year later i have move to a place that allows pets and as well as the annoying pedigree ragdoll cat rosie, i have got myself a male mosaic (ben) and a beige female (bernadette). Both are from two different breeder friends that i have trusted for years, and i have had them next to each other in their cages for a week and decided that today was the day that they would meet in the bathroom. (seedy i know). they wandered around not taking notice of each and then bernie siddle up next to ben and tried to put her bum in his face twice. then they went off and the ben started to chase her and jumped on her and this is were that meeting ended. (so back to seperate cages). I have done a bast amount of research on this and have spent years preparing and feel that a chinchilla like any other animal should have a home with a mate and if they have babies then that is nature. why as humans should be allow ourselves to neuter them and make that decision for them. we dont neuter ourselves (to be honest some people should be). but is there any information towards this first encounter that anyone can help me with please? it would be nice to have some information from other people that have paired and bred theirs successfully after getting two stranger chinchillas.
thanks for any help!
Toodles

My only advice would be to neuter your boy and then bond them. If you do what you plan you will be over run with babies and most probably lose mum due the the immense strain on her system of constantly being pregnant.

As humans would should neuter to stop this happening simple (and yes I agree some humans should be neutered)

I think what you are doing is very irresponsible.

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Thanks that was very informative, to be honest i know where the babies are going and will be able to find homes, i dont plan to cause problems to the female, that is something know as animal cruelty and that is something that i do not agree with in any way. she is not going to be a breeding machine, she is purely going to live with Ben, if i am irresponsible then how do other people breeding their chinchillas go in your books? are they not just as bad? especially the ones that breed for money? i plan to put and male and female together not to have someone tell me that i am an irresponsible person for putting two chinchillas that are not neutured together.
the people that do not agree with other people breeding, are pet shops like pets at home, who only want you to spend your money on a chinchilla that is has been traumatised by the poor way that they are looked after.
thanks for your response, i am looking for help, not abuse.
thanks

If she lives with Ben she will breed with him, animals are not like humans they breed until they can't anymore simple.

I have no problems with responsible breeders and never will have, don't even get me started on BYB's and pet shops......

Why do you want to breed?
Do you know the genetic history of both chins involved for at least 4 generations?

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you NEED to neuter him now, or get them both a same sex friends, as humans choosing to own pets it is our responsiability to make sure our pets are safe and healthy, yes they need friends, no they dont need babies.

animals do not think like us in the baby department and if allowed will breed them selves to death with baby after baby, she will get pregnant while she is still nursing her last, and then she will get pregnant again while nursing the next, this will eventually kill her, you may get 3, 4, 5 back to back breedings out of her if you are lucky, but she will die, not a could die, she WILL die, the strain of a single pregnancy on its own with a long rest after is bad enough, but pregnancy after pregnancy after pregnancy.......

we neuter animals because we are responsible, and we care

if you care about your female, you will either get your male snipped, or get them both a same sex friend

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I have just been on another forum and seen loads of stories and horrible pictures about the problems that can happen with breeding and alot of the people on there are breeders themselves and are out to prove that even people who know what they are doing have problems. I watched one video where a female was giving birth, she had been bred back to back since her first pregnancy and the poor thing had been breeding with the male babies. The person who rescued her noticed her behaviour while in labour was odd and mommy chinchilla gave birth to a dead baby, the chinchilla was that distressed that she chewed off the babies foot !!!

Have you thought about what can happen with pregnancy ?? Have you got a cage that would be safe for babies ?? Have you got a vet close by in case the female has birthing problems ??

As much as i look at baby chinchillas and think aww how cute i wouldnt even think of breeding, for all you know the female could already be pregnant now (you never know).... I dont think you have really thought it through, im really not having ago but im stating my thoughts. I think male and female should be kept apart or the male should be neutered as the others have said because you are risking the chinchillas health. Its not as easy as people think and frankly it scares me that you havnt thought it out !!