Now very many hold chinchillas, but absolutely incorrectly look after the pets and it often leads to sad consequences.
That your pet lived long life, it is necessary to know some it ""is always ""IMPOSSIBLE"" and to follow them. Chinchillas categorically cannot give bread and other flour products, fresh fruit, vegetables, berries and many dried fruits (raisin, a fig, prunes, dried apricots), nuts, sunflower seeds, mushrooms and also animal products. Also forget about delicacies from pet-shop, such as grain sticks, baskets with berries and grains.
It is impossible to pour in a drinking bowl water from under the crane. It contains hazardous substances for chinchillas. It is necessary to use filtered, bottled or boiled.
It is impossible to bathe a chinchilla in water. It is impossible to bathe a chinchilla in river sand. It damages wool. It is necessary to bathe a chinchilla in special zeolitic sand or volcanic dust. They are on sale in pet-shop. It is impossible to be enough and squeeze a chinchilla. They do not love it. But like to jump to the owner on handles and to accept pochesyvaniye behind an ear. Also you should not give a chinchilla on hands to friends, it is a stress for the pet. It is impossible to release to walk on the apartment. The animal can overheat, gorge on any garbage, gnaw through wires and be killed with current, can hide so that you will never find it. Chinchillas do not need walks, it is wanted by owners. Chinchillas need spacious cages from big the number of shelves. It is impossible to use a walking sphere. At most, it is possible to hang up it in a cage as a lodge. It is impossible to use iron running wheels. It is fraught with injuries. It is necessary to use integral, wooden. Children cannot buy a chinchilla up to 10-12 years. They will hardly be able to conform to all rules of contents. It is impossible to put a cage with a chinchilla near heating and devices. It is impossible to put a cage on drafts. Temperature indoors with a chinchilla has to be 16-22 degrees. And the most important, you should not buy the pet if you have financial hardship. To support a chinchilla not really expensively, and to here buy a cage, accessories and the small animal very expensive.