Chinchilla — the nice active small animal delivered from South America. Far from the homeland the animal successfully adapted and managed to gain a certain popularity. It is simple to look after a chinchilla, it is only enough to understand her requirements and to try to please a little her.
How to equip housing
The chinchilla with pleasure lives in a cage. It is the best of all if the cage for one animal has length of 70 cm, and width and height on 50 cm. It has to be made of metal rods, the sizes of cells for walls — 2×2 cm, and for a bottom — 1.5×1.5 cm. An indispensable condition — a pallet. It has to be metal and filled with sawdust or small shaving which should be changed every other day.
The chinchilla likes to retire to the nature sometimes. That she felt most comfortably, in a cage it is necessary to establish a wooden lodge. In it there has to be a twilight, then the small animal will like to hide and sleep there. Regiments, tunnels, short flights of stairs where animals will be able to have a rest and hide are welcomed.
The drinking bowl and feeding trough cannot be put on a floor: the chinchilla will turn them. The best decision is to attach them to cage walls. It is separately possible to establish a day nursery for hay, and the mineral or salt stone is near. About it the small animal will sharpen teeth and in parallel to receive valuable minerals.
The chinchilla very much likes to bathe in sand. Sand bathrooms help to improve a condition of its fur. For this procedure once a day in a cage install containers with clean sand for half an hour. The cage with a chinchilla cannot be held on a draft, it is desirable to avoid hit of direct beams of the sun. The best temperature should not be above 25 °C, at usual humidity of air.
When also with what to feed a chinchilla
It is necessary to feed the South American small animal according to the schedule. It is the best of all to do it in certain time in the evening. The vegetable forage is the cornerstone of a diet. It is the best of all to use the concentrated bean and grain crops and also green sprouts of oats or young greens. All the year round the chinchilla has to receive hay. Without it she will die. There are also special ready-made feeds in granules. It is in addition possible to feed up an animal branches and leaves of a willow, an oak, birch and aspen bark. It is necessary to avoid some sweet and high-calorific food because obesity can turn out to be consequence of such feeding. Under natural conditions the chinchilla almost does not drink water. But in bondage the pet always has to have fresh water at a drinking bowl. Boiled water quite will approach.
How to make friends with a chinchilla
That keeping of a chinchilla became especially interesting, with her it is necessary to make friends. Relationship with the pet, as well as with any living being, is based gradually. The first step is to call an animal by name, approaching a cage. It is possible to do it, offering a small animal through a cage some delicacy, for example, a raisin half, but no more than 1 — 2 izyumin in day. Gradually he gets used to a voice of the owner and begins to study his hand. Then it is possible to tickle carefully a rodent under a neck and behind ears. In 2 — 3 weeks the pet will accustom with the owner and will cease to be afraid of him. Chinchillas very lovely animals. Simple leaving and care — here a right way to acquisition of the interesting and amusing friend.