1) Wash your hands carefully before touching my totoro and its cage.
The most vulnerable place of my chinchilla is that it has no resistance to fungi, especially the young chinchilla with low resistance. Although the fungus infected by human hands due to contact with money or feet is hardly a threat to human beings, it can easily make my chinchilla bald. Once you are bald, it is time-consuming and laborious, so it is better to plan ahead.
2) Don't take it for granted to feed all kinds of food to my chinchilla.
Totoro originally lived in the barren land of the Andes in South America, and the food it could eat was very single. My chinchilla, rescued from extinction and raised artificially, also lacks digestive enzymes that our ancestors did not have. So many foods that we think are very common can't be fully digested by my chinchilla.
So just feed my chinchilla special dry food feed and hay, and the snacks I can eat are also very simple: special chinchilla snacks, or fresh apples, carrots, sand fruits or red fruits peeled and diced. For any snacks, it is enough to give 1-2 every other day. Don't give more!
Most of the deaths of chinchillas are caused by feeding inappropriate food. My neighbor totoro is very greedy. He loves to eat a lot, but many things are harmful to his stomach. Some of them will cause diarrhea soon after eating, others will cause hematuria, thinning hair, or sudden flatulence and death.
Some people say that I fed my totoro something, but I didn't see him sick and dead. Just like a child crossing the street without looking at the car. It's dangerous, but it's possible that nine times out of ten it's okay. However, all this is a fluke. If something happens, it will be a life-threatening event.
Advise the owner who loves my neighbor totoro: don't try to challenge my neighbor totoro's stomach;
Carrots are good snacks;
Don't feed any supermarket food such as raisins;
The quality of imported chinchilla feed is worrying, so be careful.
My neighbor totoro is like a stubborn child. Don't force him to do anything, but seduce him with food.
Fortunately, my neighbor totoro knew that he was hungry and couldn't keep him alive, so he let go and fed him. Giving him food by hand is the easiest way to build feelings.
Including all kinds of articles reprinted on my forum to train my totoro to play tricks, all of which are mainly based on appropriate food temptation ~
Second, the general law of chinchilla reproduction
1) Location of Totoro Cage
Cages must be placed on high places, such as tables, cabinets, chairs ... but not directly on the ground.
Because chinchillas were hunted by eagles in the wild ... ancient DNA shadows ...
Cages should be placed in a cool place, not exposed to direct sunlight or ventilation.
The former will make my chinchilla suffer from heatstroke and dehydration, while the latter will make my chinchilla catch a cold.
2) Drinking water for chinchillas
Drinking water is usually cold boiled water, or clean pure water, mineral water and other human drinking water. Clean drinking water must be available at all times. Generally, change the water in the kettle every other day and clean the kettle at the same time. Pay attention to cleaning the gasket at the spout to avoid microbial growth.
You'd better hang the kettle outside the cage. The right place we found was the door of a standard chinchilla cage. My chinchilla, which is highly suitable for me, is easy to drink water when standing up in the cage, and because the switch of the cage door is blocked, my chinchilla is not easy to bite the pot.
3) Methods of feeding chinchillas
Be sure to feed grass and dry food alternately every other day, but only one kind of food, or dry food, or grass and grass can be fed every day, and alfalfa hay or alfalfa granules can be fed.
Pay special attention! ! !
A balanced diet is very important. There are precedents. Long-term picky eaters (like eating a single food) have led to the thinning of my baby totoro's hair. So, don't let my baby totoro pick what he likes just because he thinks he is looking at you.
Dry food and hay are indispensable. If baby chinchilla is found picking grass leaves in hay and abandoning grass stems, it can be fed with dry food one day and dry food and hay leaves one day to ensure nutrition.
Feed the baby totoro grass regularly for their gastrointestinal health!
4) Totoro snacks
You can give it every other day, but not too much. Give 1 or 2 times a day, and give a small piece of diced meat or special snacks once. If you eat too many snacks, my neighbor totoro will not like to eat them, and even the stomach will be overburdened.
5) Control the picky eaters of chinchillas.
Totoro is characterized by impatience. They usually eat with their small hands, and after a few bites, they fall off, causing waste. Careful owners will divide the food into smaller pieces so that my totoro can eat it all at once.
However, if there is very little food, and my neighbor totoro deliberately eats half of it and loses half of it, then we must be hungry, and if we don't feel uncomfortable, our children will become thinner and thinner when they are picky about food.
6) Totoro takes a bath
Totoro is not allowed to take a bath with water, but should use sand bath powder. Give my chinchilla a bath every 4-5 days in dry weather, and every day in the wettest weather (rainy season and sauna day).
Domestic fine sand bath powder is good for the delicate skin and hair of chinchilla, but it will produce dust during use, which will cause trouble to the owner. My solution is to spread the sand bath powder on the bottom of a clean plastic bucket with a thickness of 1-2 cm, put it on the ground, and take my chinchilla in and wash it. When I stand by, some of the dust he throws will be blocked by the barrel wall, and a small part will not reach my nose and mouth.
If the imported chinchilla sand bath powder with larger particles is used, the dusting phenomenon will be much smaller.
You can also buy rice barrels made in Japan, and the lid is transparent. When my neighbor totoro takes a bath, she can see you through the transparent cover without raising dust.
The Japanese special Totoro bathtub is very expensive, but the design is reasonable. You can put it directly in the chinchilla cage, and the chinchilla will jump in and take a shower.
Handy friend, I suggest you refit a bathtub for my totoro with a small receiver. 9SMk "
7) Adaptability of Totoro
My neighbor totoro is very cautious and timid to strangers, but he is like a spoiled brat in front of his master. My neighbor totoro can get familiar with strange sounds, environments and people in 1-2 days, but he will be nervous before getting familiar with them, so don't expect my neighbor totoro to take him for a walk in the busy street.
8) Be careful not to let my chinchilla exercise excessively.
When you let my chinchilla go out to play, be careful not to let him exercise too hard, so as not to cause intestinal distortion of the obese baby. ...
9) Totoro calcium supplement
My totoro likes to jump. It is very important to have a good skeleton. You can feed him a calcium tablet before meals every other day, which tastes like children's fruit. Will he chew it himself?
Or, you can go to the pet hospital to buy some calcium powder for rodent pets and mix it in the feed of my neighbor totoro.
10) gastrointestinal regulation of chinchilla
Under normal diet, if the chinchilla is constipated, the feces will become smaller and darker, and the appetite will decrease. It is also helpful to find constipation in time, feed some apples to relax the bowels, and let him come out to do proper exercise. If you have a bad appetite and soft stool, just feed hay stalks, feed a piece of lactic acid bacteria before meals, and add drugs to diet therapy, which will soon be good.
1 1) Totoro-specific wood.
My neighbor totoro's wooden house and springboard are hardwood, and birch, Chinese fir and poplar are all safe wood for grinding teeth.
Conifer wood such as pine, because it contains aromatic substances such as rosin, is not good for my neighbor totoro, so it can't be used to make my neighbor totoro's wood products.
12) Totoro excretion
Totoro BB has no taste, NN has a little taste, which needs to be absorbed by sawdust at the bottom of the cage. Because my neighbor totoro has the habit of fixing the corner NN, so I can only spread sawdust in their NN, and even train my neighbor totoro to go to a special toilet.
13) is suitable for the environment of chinchillas.
The temperature is between 5℃ and 28℃. Don't be exposed to direct sunlight or ventilation. When the weather is too hot, you can use an ice bottle to cool his small environment and let the cat spend the hot summer safely.
Third, take my chinchilla home to the initial feeding point.
1) Put my chinchilla in the cage immediately after I get home, and keep the cage in a quiet and dark environment (no direct sunlight).
2) Don't give any food, only provide clean drinking water.
3) Don't play with my chinchilla in a hurry, and try not to look around all the time. Let my chinchilla relax as much as possible and take the initiative to get familiar with and observe the surrounding environment and specific people at home.
4) Feed my chinchilla the next day, and feed it at 4-5 pm every day, and the feeding time can be gradually delayed. 5) Feed forage (alfalfa hay or alfalfa granules) on the 2nd to 3rd day, resume normal diet on the 4th day, and feed hay (alfalfa hay or alfalfa granules) and dry food alternately on the next day.
6) From the third day, you can take my totoro out for a bath, but don't force him too much.