An entertained chinchilla is a happy chinchilla. So you'll want to provide as many toys and accessories as you can while being reasonable with the costs. Over the years we've tried several products with a few of them emerging as favorites.
Hide 'n Sleep Chinchilla Hammock
We were familiar with ferrets enjoying hammocks, however, we had not heard if the same applied to chinchillas. One day we came across a site with hammocks made specifically for chinchillas and we decided to give one a try.
We picked out the size (there are 2 sizes) and color (there are multiple options) and ordered online. Soon enough we received the order and hung it up in the cage. So far we have evidence (for those of you with chinchillas you'll know what we mean by evidence) that our chinchillas have lounged in the hammock, however we have yet to catch them actually sitting in it (the image below is not our chinchilla). They continue to prefer to sleep in their wooden house.
Super Pet Leap-n-Ledge
Sometimes it's the simplest idea that turns out to be the best idea. That is the case with the Leap-n-Ledge which is really nothing more than a block of wood with a screw stuck in one side to allow it to be attached to the side of a cage. This is a great way to add ledges to a cage. We often see our chinchillas perched on the Leap-n-Ledge.
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My chinch Paco chewed his hammock a lot which was made out of fleece as they will chew on anything you give them, but my chinches son Pasa who was a really big eater and owned by? my friend who I gave a hammock to ate too much of his fleece hammock one day and it killed him so in honor of Pasa's memory I am putting this out there and fully believe that hammocks are not good for chinches even including ones made from fleece. In the end they will eat it and it can cause their death.
We have proof of or chin Grimm sleeping in his hammock, that seemed to be the one thing he loved to do. It was the cutiest thing to see him sleeping in his hammock. One of the things that we learned is that you have to make it easily accessable for your chin to climb in and out of a hammock. We had hung the hammock by all four hooks and Grimm decided to re-engineered the way it hung. He chewed off one of the corners that had a hook and the hammock hung by 3 hooks and thats the way he wanted it.
My Chins (freddy and gizzy) love <3 to play with this little bell, that they chewed of their hay ball thing. They carry the bell too in their mouth all the time...and throw it to one another, kinda like catch. its soo cute.
I took an cardboard box cut a square out in front and set it down and put some sticks in it and my chinchilla never wants to leave
My Chinch Nibbles LOVES the small soft toy stuffed animals that are meant for small dogs.
He loves to bite on them and carry them around in his cage at night when he thinks no one is watching.
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My chin's favorite toy is a Sam Adams 12 pack box, she loves them.. Also she likes a beaded bracelet of mine that makes lots of noise; she picks it up and throws it around. So cute....