Chinchilla.... 5 Years Old in Brampton, Ontario

The Chinchilla comes with a huge cage, feeding dish, water bottle, sand box, and sand for their sand bath. Chinchilla?s instinctively clean their fur by taking dust baths, in which they roll around in special chinchilla dust made of fine pumice. You can find this in any Pet Store. In the wild their dust is formed from fine ground volcanic rocks. The dust gets into their fur and absorbs oil and dirt. These baths are needed a few times a week. Chinchillas do not bathe in water because the dense fur prevents air-drying, retaining moisture close to the skin, which can cause fungus growth or fur rot. A wet chinchilla must be dried immediately with towels and a no-heat hair dryer. Chinchillas eat and digest desert grasses and cannot efficiently process fatty foods, high protein foods, or too many green plants. A high quality, hay-based pellet and a constant supply of loose timothy hay will sufficiently meet all of their dietary needs.