Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki's movie My Neighbor Totoro" let us know this kind of cute and honest animal, many people may not be very interested in Chinchilla Totoro Familiar with. In fact, the real name of Chinchilla is South American chinchilla, but it was renamed by Hong Kong people as Chinchilla just because of the movie.

The standard grey chinchilla is native to the highlands of the Andes Mountains in South America. The Chinese name of Chinchilla is chinchilla or chinchilla, also known as chinchilla, literally translated from the Latin name Chinchilla, is a prehistoric rodent. It has an average lifespan of eight to ten years, with a maximum of twenty years; it is lively, active, likes to jump around, and full of curiosity. Because chinchillas are clean, tame, easy to take care of and free of lice, An ideal pet for urbanites.

Although they are all rodents, chinchillas and hamstersBut there are many differences. Hamsters are omnivores and chinchillas are vegetarian, and they have different digestive systems. Hamsters are double-ovulated and chinchillas are single-ovulated, so hamsters (including hamsters) can have a litter every 20 days while chinchillas can only give birth 1-2 times a year and 1-2 per litter. The probability is 80%.

The average life expectancy of chinchillas is 8-10 years. Because of the vegetarian diet, the excrement of chinchillas generally has no peculiar smell. South American chinchillas have tight fur, which is not conducive to the breeding of parasites. It doesn't require you to bathe it, it has a special bath powder, jump in and it will roll on its own to clean up the body. The chinchilla is quite docile and has a cute personality like a child. And the most amazing thing is that it actually has its own expression, you can even see it doing incredible and thinking.

Chinchilla is small and fat, with a head like a rabbit and a tail like Squirrel. Adult chinchillas weigh 400-500 grams for males and 450-800 grams for females; body length is 20-25 cm; tail length is 7-15 cm. Newborn pups weigh about 50 grams. Chinchillas have large, bright eyes, many whiskers of different lengths on the side of the nose, and are sensitive to touch. The ears are large, thin, and bluntly rounded. The forelimbs are short with five toes, and the hind limbs are strong with four toes and are good at jumping. The chinchillas have grey-black hair on the back and sides (and some other bred colors), fading to white on the belly, and evenly distributed body hair. Chinchillas have the densest fur in the world, with 40 to 60 hairs per pore, and as many as 80 in the United States, where the provenance is the best (cats and dogs only have 1 to 3 hairs per pore), but so The soft, thick fur also gave chinchillas a near-extinction nightmare.

Most of the chinchillas are gray, followed by beige, velvet black, and some special colors even appear every generation or several generations. The International Chinchilla Association divides chinchillas into 17 colors. However, since the color of chinchillas is mainly controlled by seven different dual genes, according to the color separation in the United States, there are 7 basic colors of chinchillas, and the combination of these seven dual genes can develop at least more than 20 kinds of coat colors. , so there are actually more than 17 colors of chinchillas.

In fact, there are many color names for Chinchillas, and there are often many differences between Chinese and English translations, which can cause confusion. The name of the United States is also different from that of Hong Kong. In the United States, Brown, Tan, and Pastel all refer to the same color, but the shades are different and have different names. The correct name of beige is hetero beige, gold is homo beige, and Pure White Also known as Wilson White and so on.

For Standard GreyChinchilla, summer is very difficult, because the standard grey chinchilla is an animal that is very prone to heat stroke, so in daily life Feeding in life must pay attention to environmental layout and feeding methods.

1. The placement and drinking rules of standard grey chinchilla cages

The cage must be placed in a high place, such as on a table or a cabinet , on the chair, but not directly on the ground, because the standard gray chinchilla is preyed on by eagles in the wild. The cage should be placed in a cool place, not exposed to direct sunlight, and not blown by the wind.

The former will cause dehydration and death of standard gray chinchillas, while the latter will make standard gray chinchillas cold.

The drinking water is usually cold boiled water, or clean purified water, mineral water and other human drinking water. Clean drinking water must be available at all times. Generally, the water in the kettle is changed every other day, and the kettle is cleaned at the same time. Pay attention to cleaning the gasket in the spout of the kettle to avoid the growth of microorganisms.

The best place to hang the water bottle is outside the cage. The suitable location we found is the door of the standard grey chinchilla cage. The height can be suitable so that the standard grey chinchilla can stand up easily in the cage. When I came to drink it, because the switch of the cage door was blocked, it was not easy for the standard gray chinchilla to break the body of the kettle.

Second, not turning on the air conditioner is the standard way to escape the heat of the gray chinchilla

1. Buy 2 Pepsi-sized bottles and put water in them Freeze into ice

2. Go and buy 2 bags of petsIce (technical ice) that kind of thing is very cheap and good to buy. Generally, there are places that sell standard gray chinchillas, and they are also frozen.

3. Find an iron box or plastic. (Be careful not to have edges and corners in the plastic, they will eat the plastic and don't bring paint)

4. Take a towel, then put the towel under the box and put 2 bags of about 300ML of technology ice on the box Inside, put the cola ice on top of the tech ice and finally cover the box with a towel. Finally put the box in your cage and they will lie down on it to escape the heat. It's a bit of a hassle, but it saves money.

Although standard grey My Neighbor Totoro and hamsters are different, but they still need to pay attention to the problem of molar teeth, otherwise the teeth that are too long will cause their diseases, the editor will tell you how to raise standard gray chinchillas Five "don'ts" when feeding, and the importance of feeding standard grey chinchillas hay.

1. Five do's and don'ts when feeding standard grey chinchillas

1. Don't buy food with additives and preservatives from the supermarket, these things will Standard grey chinchillas pose unpredictable dangers.

2. Don't give the standard grey chinchillas fresh vegetables and fruits. Foods with too much water will cause the standard grey chinchillas to have diarrhea. Only apples can eat a small amount of fresh.

3. Don't give the standard grey chinchillas cooked melon seeds. The standard grey chinchillas eat melon seeds because the melon seeds contain the linoleic acid required by the standard grey chinchillas, which is beneficial to the standard grey chinchilla's hair. However, the linoleic acid in the cooked melon seeds has already been exerted, and the cooked melon seeds eaten by many people contain salt and additives. Salt can easily cause the standard gray chinchilla to lose hair. The additives are not suitable for the standard gray chinchilla, so we have to give the standard gray chinchilla For chinchillas to eat raw sunflower seeds, 10 or so a day is enough.

4. Don't give standard grey chinchillas soybeans. Soybeans will enter the stomach of standard grey chinchillas and absorb a lot of water in the intestines, which will make standard grey chinchillas feel bloated and may cause intestinal obstruction in severe cases. Danger to life.

5. Don't feed peanuts to standard grey chinchillas, as peanuts contain too much oil, which is not suitable for standard grey chinchillas.

Second, the importance of feeding hay to standard grey chinchillas

Hay helps standard grey chinchillas to grind their teeth, so if the standard grey chinchilla is not given hay A cat eating hay is equivalent to making a standard grey chinchilla commit suicide. It must be fed hay to a standard grey chinchilla! Especially the grass pole is definitely a good thing to grind its teeth! It is absolutely wrong! It is also possible to prepare teeth grinding supplies for standard grey chinchillas, such as molar stones, apple branches, etc. Of course, standard gray chinchillas usually chew on springboards and wooden nests, which will also play a role in grinding their teeth.