A chinchilla should be never held alone. At liberty they live together in family federations, therefore, one should also give them in captivity a colleague with in addition.

To hold a single animal is only satisfactory if one deals daily SEVERAL hours with the animal.

Chinchillas may not be held together with other animals (e.g., hares, guinea pigs, to birds or hamsters) in a cage.

Birds, guinea pigs and hares are day-active animals who would extremely disturb the chinchilla in his life rhythm.

If one held a chinchilla with a hare or guinea pig in a cage, indeed, the chinchilla could make way on the higher seat boards, but to the different life rhythm still there comes the problem with the feed. From the extensive feed of the guinea pigs or rabbits the chinchilla would get indigestion.

Indeed, hamsters would have the same rhythm like the chinchilla, nevertheless, are absolute loners what also them for the common posture with him exclude.

If one wants to give a playfellow to his chinchilla, it is the still best and most appropriate to the species ones if one puts the second chinchilla in the cage to him. Actually, one should already get from the outset two animals.

With the everyday outlet varied dangers for the chinchilla lurk in the flat. This counts it of recognising to begin with and of removing possibly.

Because one cannot educate a chinchilla or train it is especially important to make the flat "sure about chinchilla", because it can come otherwise for heavy injuries or even to the death of the animal. Chinchillas are true artists, they climb, e.g., between the narrow gap between wall and wall unit easily to completely upwards. Also they do not avoid of high jumps what can be very dangerous every now and then. Because they also walk around so fast and everywhere hinspringen the danger also insists that one does not react fast enough and kicks then a little animal or himself by mistake place on it. Therefore, one should be always super careful if one grants outlet to his animals and check rather the second spot, before one does something

Free run:

A room is to be formed absolutely necessarily before the first outlet "Sure about chinchilla" and before that what is dear to one and expensive to attach Nageschutz. Nageschutz and chinchilla protection are very important, because at his activities a chinchilla, like a toddler gets, constantly in danger.

Here some examples:

 - inadvertent kick / place on, get caught in the cupboard door or room doors

- electroshock therapy while gnawing stream-leading cables

- poisoning, erosiveness by eat from cleaning agent / soap or indoor plants

- blockage by swallowed material leftovers or plastic

- drowning in the loo bowl, cleaning buckets, wash basins, bath

- fall from the window, in the stairwell or from cupboards

- Are remain behind cupboards, in fissures, between doors

Cage:

A chinchilla cage can be never too big!!! The small journeymen are so springfreudig, so that she itself about a cage, is largely the more are glad. Who wants to be active hand, that can build himself a cage (e.g., a cupboard or a wall unit do alterations) who is gifted one less, that can also buy a chinchilla cage in the zoo business. Then, however, this should be also very big.

No matter whether one himself builds a cage or buys one, one should follow the following things:

  • The cage may not stand in the train air
  • The cage should stand on a wall. Since if one runs permanently all around, the chinchilla nervously
  • If becomes one a single animal or a couple in the cage holds, one should do a sleeping house in. Should the animals be held in a cage, the second sleeping house is advisable, so that the animals can also go themselves sometimes from the way
  • One should attach in the cage by different heights seat boards, so that the chinchillas can nicely jump. The seat boards should be of untreated wood (e.g., spruce)
  • chinchillas to dear climbing branches. These should come from unsquirted fruit-trees or spruces.
  • It is absolutely to be seen to the fact that the branches do not secrete resin!!! Heuraufen should be appropriated in not in a chinchilla cage! The little ones come through almost everywhere and, unfortunately, also with the head by the sticks of a Heuraufe. Besides, it can lead to serious situations how one can see good in the picture. We have seen it luckily same and could release our Chini. Not to devise if he had got in panic and nobody would have helped him.
  
 
 
     
     
 

Example for Chinchilla Cages:

  
 

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Our Cage

  
 

The cage of our Chini's has a crossing in the middle floor