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Hi friends, do you remember the video
where I was explaining how to assemble the Chinchilla's cage?
If you don't remember, please
look for it, because it is important you see it first before looking at this video.
Which is the ideal place to put the chinchillas at home?
It is important, because chinchillas tolerate cold temperature very well
but not hot. Their coats are prepared to
support extremly cold temperatures and
perhaps a bit of hot too,
but evidently,
a bad place would be
where we are now, in front of the fireplace,
also a bad place would be near the radiators.
We will choose a place without dafts, but away from all the
heating systems,
especially in winter, when we have the
central heating on.
Neither behind windows or
closed balconies, because temperatures can get very hot in
summer.
Right?
So then,
this is also very important for the place we choose for the
first days.
Peace and quite is what the
animal needs the first days at home.
They arrive very
stressed.
so we have to place them in a shadow part of the house.
As I told you in the other video,
chinchillas are animals with
twilight habits, and they are likely to be hunted
as they are prey for many
animals.
They come out at night
when other animals can not hunt them.
They use darkness and hiding places. So you will see
that they feel safer when
it gets dark and during the night. You will see that they start their activity
when night falls, even during the
early hours.
For this reason and to make them feel at home, we will place them in quiet
locations without many movement. If you have other pets, you will have to
have in mind that they will normally be very scared of cats and
dogs. So if our dog starts to bark
near the chinchilla or rabbit
this is
very stressing for these animals. If they suffer
stress the first days, this is terrible for them
because these animals that
have come from the shop to your house and
have to adapt to a place that they've never been before.
So we will try to minimize as much as we can all the possible
stress. I would also like to point out that the
feed changes also suppose stress to the animals. When we talk
about stress, normally people associate stress to being nervous,
that the animal gets nervous,
that something is
frightening it,
but a sudden change in food also supposes a
physiological stress, a stress in the metabolism,
normally in the digestive
system of the animals. So don't try to
change their feed. in respect to
the feed that they have been taking whilst they have been in the shops.
If you do want to change their feed, you
have to always do it progressively, do it at 50%
of the usual food and 50% of the new food.
Well, ther is not
much more for me to say. I leave you here with them so you can
see how they adapt to their new habitat, try to reproduce the same
ambients that they had in the shop, gradually we
can adapt them to what we want to finally achieve.
But always remember, changes must be done gradually.