In nature, the chinchilla is known as a rodent with a fluffy tail, a long mustache called a vibrissa, helping to navigate well at night and to search for food, expressive beautiful eyes, thick and long fur. The presence of a warm fur coat keeps the chinchillas from the temperature difference.
Color chinchillas by nature - gray, but at the roots of the hair of different shades, which creates the impression of playing halftones. In recent years, animals of different colors were taken out: black velvet, white, beige, ebony, sapphire and violet. And the chinchillas of these flowers interbreed, resulting in a mass of different colors-hybrids.
Chinchilla in everyday life.
As a pet chinchilla is gorgeous! It's unlikely you will find a pet that is more loving, energetic, fun, cute and intelligent. It is ideal for many owners. Their litter and urine do not smell. In addition, chinchillas are unpretentious, clean, playful, comfortable with people, easily tamed animals.
Their content is simple and inexpensive. Acquire only a spacious cage, a meter high, with a drinker and a bird feeder inside, equipped with several shelves of wood, a house, a sand, necessary for bathing; of good quality, and be attentive to your pets. Having created good conditions for animals, you will get the joy of communicating with them for many years. In captivity, the life span of chinchillas is up to twenty years.
A pet and its dignity.
Chinchillas have a very pleasant appearance. Watching them gives real pleasure to the owners. Chinchilla is a night animal and is activated by the evening, to your return from service. The animal is incredibly soft and very beautiful fur. They are trusting, nerazblivy, quickly tied to the owners, very rarely bite, and even if this happens, the wound is clean and heals quickly, without consequences. Cal and urine of chinchillas do not smell. They have excellent health and no sweat glands. They are well trained.
A pet and its shortcomings.
Chinchilla is an animal that can not tolerate high humidity, so she constantly needs to take dust or sand baths. As mentioned above, these animals like to lead a nocturnal life, and can start having fun after midnight, chewing a wooden shelf or throwing pebbles, or running around in a cage, rushing headlong. Chinchilla requires a lot of space for games, so the cell should occupy a decent area. And if you want to release your pet to run around the house, then prepare for chewed wires, furniture, overturned flowers, scattered peas and the appearance of wet spots on the floor or carpet. It is impossible to chop off chinchillas from these prose, because excessive curiosity and vital activity make them constantly seek adventure. If you keep fish, the chinchilla will certainly master the aquarium.
Animals do not like tenderness, they will not be stroked or squeezed, and when you try to do this you will stay with a pile of fur in your hand. If you feel that there are some problems with your pet's health, then you will not be able to help him because you are unlikely to find a good veterinarian. When taking sand baths, dust and sand from under the chinchillas fly everywhere. And the last - a high-quality food for chinchillas is quite expensive.
Advantages and mind of chinchillas.
There is an opinion that chinchillas are intelligent and understand their name, because they respond when they call. Males are more understandable than females, who, moreover, know how to pretend that they do not hear you. They also say that chinchillas can perform the command "sit", that they have congenital hours and they live according to their internal routine. It is important for them that they be looked after by the clock: feeding, baths, walking. Chinchillas are not as smart as they are clever, understanding what the master wants from them. They can throw the litter out of the cage, reasonably believing that it's unhygienic to sit among the shit. In the sand, taking baths, and for a walk they also do not defecate. Chinchilla also at a fright can pogadit, anywhere.
But the fearfulness of chinchillas manifests itself only at first, when it is still settling in a new place. Then they are very inactive, but only until they get used to the home and the owners. Adaptation lasts up to six months, but more often less. After getting used, the chinchilla begins to understand from whom and what to expect in the new family. Most of all they are afraid of children, their expressions of emotions and desire to stifle.
To make it easier to establish contact with them, they are engaged in their domestication. For the implementation of your teams, chinchillas are encouraged with raisins. Chinchillas are very curious, so they can be attracted by a rustle, some kind of sound outside their limits of visibility. Especially if you manipulate objects that are familiar to her - a bowl or a stick.
The routes of her travels should be interesting to the chinchilla - by secluded places, lazams, among wires or books, by bedspreads and carpets. Wallpaper, wires, books, especially old ones, are very tempting for chinchillas. No matter how you drive the animal from them, you do not disaccustom and forbid them to gnaw and rush, they do not care. Chinchilla will be mischievous at any suitable occasion. Keep an eye on your pet so that you do not get angry with him.
Conditions for keeping chinchilla.
The content of chinchillas in an apartment or house is quite simple and comfortable for a person. First of all, because its secretions do not have a smell. Contain chinchillas best in pairs, but occasionally divide them with a partition for fights and before the birth of the female for ten days. The cage should be mounted on a metal frame and covered with a grid having a mesh of one and a half millimeters. On the floor in the cage, it is also more correct to fix the mesh, and put a pallet with sawdust under the floor. On the grid it will be more convenient to lay hay and neocorene birch logs, necessary to the animals, chewing them, they grind their teeth and, in particular, amuse themselves. Sand for bathing chinchillas you need to buy the smallest, adding a little, the hundredth part, talc. An animal of chinchilla will give you a lot of pleasant emotions.