Creating an optimal chinchilla habitat is one of the most important tasks for ensuring the health and happiness of these ...

A multi-level wire cage with solid flooring is ideal. Soft bedding Use dust-free, absorbent bedding that’s safe for chinchillas, such as aspen shavings or paper-based bedding.

In Chile, a group of chinchillas lives atop 3.5 million ounces of gold. ... Bosson continued, perhaps should have spent more time "acclimating the chinchillas to the food, enclosures, ...

American Chinchilla Rabbits can be kept in indoor spaces or outdoor enclosures. However, due to their size, they don’t do well in apartments or small living spaces and need a lot of stimulation.

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When she puts the dust into the Pennsylvania chinchillas’ cages, they mostly just sit there, not knowing what to do. “These guys haven’t been dusted,” she said.

When each chinchilla is trapped and taken to its new territory, it will be placed in a wire-mesh enclosure for a few weeks to adapt to its new surroundings, and then monitored with radio collars ...

This view from above shows two holes in the cage floor. “Six enclosures,” the inspector indicated, had “holes with sharp points sticking into the enclosures. Some of the holes were large enough a ...

The chinchilla, who was in a cage with two other chinchillas, had a small hairless patch under its chin. In another cage, the inspector found a second 18-month-old male chinchilla with a large ...

Major U.S. chinchilla supplier heads to court with more than 100 animal welfare violations. In a rare court hearing for a research animal dealer, the USDA alleges years of lapses in care.