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06/23/2025

It’s hot out! Keep your chin cool with AC. It’s also a good idea to have frozen water bottles in the freezer and keep some marble tiles in there too. Power outages can happen and those items can help for the short term. Stay cool everyone!!

06/18/2025

Edit: we have a driver!

We need help getting this chinchilla from Humane Society Hastings Prince Edward to me in Mississauga. Is there anyone travelling from the Belleville area to the GTA this weekend? Please message me!

04/28/2025

Wow today is 15 years of rescue. Some days I question how many more years I can do this. I thought it may be this year but here I am still going. I am hopefully going to get posting more! If you want to help us celebrate our most needed items are pellets! (Oxbow essentials) as well as Timothy Hay.

If you want to send any birthday gifts here is our Amazon wish list: https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/3MJV7E3N3ASK9?ref_=wl_share
Or
our Wish list with Zoey and Lilo's Toy Box
https://www.zoeyandlilostoybox.com/apps/iwish?share=2953059958853 Use code DONATE2CCR for free shipping to the rescue.
Or
Our link for Canada Helps is https://www.canadahelps.org/gp/18298/
Or you can send funds through PayPal or EMT to
[email protected]

03/03/2025

A big thank you to Freedom Drivers: Animal Rescue Transports for getting 7 chinchillas from Quebec to the rescue. The chins have had a long day and are settling in. There are 6 females and one male. 3 females are 4-5 months and 2 are 1.5 years.

03/01/2025

This week we were asked by a shelter to help with a chinchilla surrender of 6 chinchillas. It became 7 during the week of emails. They are arriving tomorrow with the help of Freedom Drivers. Pellets and shavings are most needed with the edition of these guys. We have ample dust and hay. If you would like to help you can do an order with Zoey and Lilo's Toy Box for pellets and toys. Haycountry.ca has the Aspen shavings we use. Or you can etransfer or PayPal to [email protected] and for those that need a tax receipt we have our Canada Helps page: https://www.canadahelps.org/gp/18298/

12/31/2024

Happy New Year! What a year! Hoping to have more adoptions in 2025, less surrenders and the continued support of you all. Many thanks to my fosters, volunteers and supporters! I am usually overwhelmed but hope to be on my A game next year!
If you are looking for end of the year tax receipts you will be happy to know the government has extended charitable donations to February.
If you have parts of a credit card gift card left you can donate those small amounts through our Canada Helps page: https://www.canadahelps.org/gp/18298/
Or you can send an emt to Helping Homeless Pets at [email protected] and say the donation is for CCR
Wishing you all a great 2025!

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas everyone!

12/24/2024

Whatever your traditions, wishing everyone well today and tonight. May all your stockings be filled!

12/23/2024

Courtesy Post!
2 chinchillas in Vancouver BC that need a home. Both males that are not bonded. Reach out to me if you would like more info and I can put you in touch with their owner.

12/21/2024

Ever wonder how chinchillas came to North America? Back in the 1920s MF Chapman brought chinchillas to North America. Chinchillas were used for the fur industry and it was only when fur declined that chins really entered the pet market. This article has some amazing pics and the full story. https://www.sunsetchinchillas.com/MFChapmanChinchillaHistory.shtml

12/20/2024

Friday rescue spotlight. Abby is up for adoption and is a standard female. She has been adopted twice and returned for a couple of reasons. She is a great chin and would do great for a first time owner. She is fostered in Mississauga.

12/19/2024

This is a common question that comes up, what to use when transporting your chin. Many people use a cat carrier which works fine. I use chinchilla carriers from Ryerson that are all metal. They have a variety of sizes which helps if you need to move multiple chins. I add fleece or shavings on the bottom along with a handful of hay. I do not hang water bottles on carriers while transporting. When I get to where I am I will hang the water bottle then. You should always have enough carriers for the number of pets you have in case of emergency. What do you use as a carrier?

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The Canadian Chinchilla Rescue was started by me, Tanya as a chinchilla owner. There was a need for chinchilla rescue and I thought it would be easy to help find chins a new home. With grand plans of having a foster base across Canada I created Canadian Chinchilla Rescue. I did have fosters in 3 provinces (Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec) before the work involved soon made me realize one person can’t pull off a national rescue and work a fill time job. I scaled back and have mostly stuck with GTA fosters. CCR is a small rescue and have only limited space for chinchillas. All chinchillas are taken in with the goal of finding them a forever home and to leave the rescue.