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A Guide to Keeping Chinchillas as Pets

Cute, furry, and very distinct looking, many people today are considering adopting a chinchilla as a pet. While small like a Guinea pig, the chinchilla requires an intermediate amount of care and is recommended as a pet for those that can devote at least two hours a day for its care. A pricey investment, chinchillas ...

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2 Chinchillas Are Better Than One

In the wild Chinchilla live in family groups. Yes, there are herds of chinchillas. If you have one chinchilla then it will be happiest with a friend. This mean giving your chinchilla roommates a large cage to move around in. Chinchillas are playful and need the room to roam, jump, and climb. Try to be ...

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Exotic Pet Rodents: Degu, the Poor Man’s Chinchilla

Many people enjoy having rodents for pets. There are many popular choices such as guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, mice, rats and chinchillas. There is an unknown rodent that is popular with its owners. This is the little degu. Degus are social animals. In fact, they do poorly if kept by themselves in captivity. If you ...

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Learn How to Properly Take Care of a Pet Chinchilla

Chinchillas are very interesting and beautiful animals. They make great pets because they are so lovable, entertaining, and curious. However, they do have special care requirements and are usually rather expensive. Be sure you do plenty of research before you purchase a chinchilla. Chinchillas originally come from South America by the Andes mountain range. In ...

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Domesticated Small Mammals as Pets

Have you ever considered the benefits of having a small mammal as a pet? Most small domesticated mammal pets include hamsters, gerbils, rats, mice, guinea pigs, chinchillas, rabbits, or ferrets. The benefits center around the size and care of these small pets but there is so much more to having a domesticated small mammal as ...

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All About Chinchillas

The slightly larger ground animal that belongs to the Chinchillidae family is native to the Andes mountains of the alpine regions in South America. Chinchillas live in the altitudes about three thousand feet to fifteen thousand feet above sea level, where the climate is cold and dry. This is what makes the fur thick as ...

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How to Care for Your Pet Chinchilla

Chinchillas make great low maintenance pets. They can be given lots of attention or very little and seem to do equally well. You can recognize a chinchilla because they have a rodent shaped face with a squirrel-type tail and are incredible soft to touch. The chinchilla grows its fur so thickly that no parasites like ...

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How to Care for a Pet Chinchilla

A chinchilla can be a great pet. However, as with all pets, you should make sure that you know how to take care of a chinchilla before you get one as a pet. You should be aware of the amount of work that a chinchilla causes, how much it will cost to care for and ...

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Tennessee’s Exotic Animal Laws

Tennessee’s Exotic Animal Laws prohibits the possession of certain exotic animals unless these animals were in the individual’s possession before this law went into effect on June 25, 1991. These exotic animals that are prohibited in Tennessee are gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, gibbons, mandrills, siamangs, drills and Gelada baboons, wolves, bears, lions, leopards, tigers, jaguars, cougars, ...