What Type of Chinchilla Cage Should You Buy?
Chinchillas need a certain environment in which to live, not only should you provide an environment which is conducive as much as possible to the natural environment of the chinchilla, you should try and make your chinchilla as comfortable as possible by providing the correct type of chinchilla cage for your new animal. So, with that in mind, let’s go on and look at the different types of cages that you can purchase.
Because your chinchilla is going to be very active, they like to jump and climb a lot, they need to have a lot of room so that it can burn some of that energy off. The more room that you provide for them in a cage the better, this means in the height of the cage as well as the width. An ideal cage will be approximately 6 foot tall, 6 foot long and 3 feet wide. This type of chinchilla cage will give your pet enough room so that it can move around as much as it likes. There are many different cages that come with different levels so your pet can move around in as many different directions as it wants.
You can buy your cages made from many different types of material. But there are only very few cages which will be suitable. For instance, anything which is made of glass is not suitable because of the very poor ventilation. Because the chinchilla comes from the Andes Mountains, it is used to a cool and fairly dry atmosphere, glass cages and plastic cages are not suitable for this animal in this respect. Wooden cages are also not very good as chinchilla cages at all because the chinchilla is a voracious chewer; it will chew through the wooden bars of a wooden cage very quickly indeed. The ideal material for a chinchilla cage to be made from is wire mesh. Make sure that your wire chinchilla cage has not been coated in plastic as the chinchilla will more than likely chew away the plastic. Make sure that there is an area in the cage to use as its toilet. Also, you should supply the chinchilla with many different types of toys in order to try and keep them as occupied as you can. The chinchilla cage is going to be the home to your pet for the rest of its life, make sure it’s a good home.
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