Chinchillas absolutely love to play with toys, they can have a variety of goodies made of wood, pumice, bamboo and loofah. My chinchillas also enjoy vine balls, safe kinds of cardboard and apple wood sticks. Most of the toys for chinchillas at pet stores are not safe. The main reason they are not safe is because they use hot glue to hold the toys together. For example, my chinchilla used to love chewing on the hanging toys that look like a sish-kabob, but I noticed they used hot glue to put the pieces together! Below is a picture of safe vs. not safe chinchilla toys. Not all of the pet stores sell toys that were put together with hot glue, but most of them do so just make sure you check your toys carefully.
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| Good toy |
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| Bad toy |
Keep in mind that separately the toys on the right can be considered acceptable if they are taken off of the middle stick and given individually. As long as you give your chincilla the correct toys, your chinchilla can live a long time! Aside from chinchillas enjoying their toys, they also love to cuddle in hammocks and wooden huts, (not plastic ones), these can be bought at any pet store. Below I listed two fantastic chinchilla focused websites where I frequently purchase toys, food, treats and accessories for my chinchillas. You can buy bulk chinchilla toys for pretty cheap and it lasts a long time. There are two types of chinchilla toys "toss toys" and "hanging toys." Toss toys are ones like the good toy as seen above and hanging toys are like what is seen in the "bad toy." This certainly does not mean that hanging toys are bad, you just need to get them from a reputable place. The same for toss toys, some toss toys are put together with hot glue so keep an eye out!
Chinchilla city and
Whimsy's Menagerie.
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