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Bath? No, no, no. Never give chinchillas water baths. Dust baths, yes. Go look up 'chinchilla dust bath on youtube, you'll love it.
I was pretty scared of that when I got into a relationship with Haitha, too. His race, the Quori. . . dreamfolk. . . their life expectancy is eight years or so. He was 10 when we got together (though I would like to point out that he's physically, like, 30. And completely mentally mature. I'm not a creep, I swear). And then. . . stuff happened, and I didn't have to worry about it. . .
It did, but not for all that long. My grandpa can do some weird shit. And. . . whoa, blondie. But hey, switching forms is no prob. Obviously, I did it.