Chinchilla – one of the most charming pets. She is larger than a hamster, has absolutely amazing appearance is already soft also the barkhatist to the touch that will not leave indifferent any fan of animals. However many amateur manufacturers face that the chinchilla is afraid of the new owners and does not want to get used to jump to them on hands in any way or even to approach close. How to tame this little fluffy?
Instruction
1. Give to a chinchilla time to accustom to the new house. The chinchilla, as well as any rodent, not really loves loud sounds and special attention to own person. Of course, these small animals give in to domestication, but on it some time and patience is required. Do not demand from the chinchilla that she instantly began to jump to you on hands and to communicate with all guests and family members. If the small animal is brought from the apartment of the large manufacturer, most likely, he did not get used to constant attention and persistent caress. Give to a chinchilla time to accustom to the new house and whenever possible do not bother her with the presence. In several days when the animal feels in safety again, it will become interesting to him that is outside a cage. Here it is possible to begin domestication.
2. Treat the kid with something tasty. Raisin or a piece of apple is ideal for domestication. Begin with simple – open a cage and put a treat near a lodge of a chinchilla. After the animal ceases to be afraid and will begin to leave the shelter, it is possible to complicate a task and to begin to give it raisin through a cage lattice. Push a treat between rods and wait so far the chinchilla will take it from you and from hands. Gradually modernize exercises, trying to obtain that the small animal was not afraid of your hands and learned to take food from them.
3. Some chinchillas are very susceptible to caress and strokings, but only some. The most part of these rodents quietly lives and without your pochesyvaniye, without feeling for them need at all. If you want to iron a small animal, keep in mind that he will hardly get pleasures from this process. Your task is to accustom a chinchilla not to be afraid of your hands and continuous touches, then she will begin to jump willingly on your palms, to take from them a forage and will not run away in attempts to touch it.