In another article we discussed the need to allow your chinchilla to bathe. However, we didn't mention specifics on dust bath options which we'll do here.
Super Pet Chinchilla Bath House
The first bath house that we purchased was from Super Pet (see image below). It functions as specified by the manufacturer except we never felt comfortable with the hook mechanism for attaching it to a cage. Instead, we just placed it at the bottom of our cage. Our chinchillas seemed to like it and being plastic it was easy to clean.
If we could, we would get the manufacturer to make a non-colored version of this product. We'd also get them to make the plastic smooth so we'd have a better view of our chinchillas rolling around in the dust.
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Muffin, it is not good to let them sleep in the dust, too much exposure and over bathing can actually dry out your Chin's skin and leave them itchy and flaky! I try not to give my girls access to their baths for more than about 30 mins at a time 3 days a week.
Hmm. That is a good point! I have actually been following them and they rarely go in there anymore, and only to bathe (and this rare, the little pigs) though. I have read about a lot of breeders who always leave the dust in. I don't know... I check their fur every week, I tend to give them a full body checkup to make sure they are okay and not being agressive in any way to one another. So it's all good =]
Thanks thouogh!!! If anything happens I will know what to blame, though hopefully it won't. hah
I use that one and I hooked it with those hook thingies and be sure it works great. When my chins are not sleeping in it at least one of them is on top of it snoozing away
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i94/robotzik/ottoandpandora014.jpg
Proof it works fine
Though yeah I wish I could see better inside.
I got this but my chins chewed through it. Not safe for them to injest plastic.
I know
I added another chinchilla to the mixup and she treated it like candy so I had to take it out =/
Since I work with clay I'm gonna sculpt them a little ball type bowl that is big enough to hang out in hopefully.