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[Brucey1234]

Hello! I put a small cardboard box into my baby chin's cage. He started chewing it, and I wanted to make sure that it's okay. There is no ink on it, except for some white. Is it okay, or should I take it out? 

[Abby W.]

Oh chinnies love cardboard!  As long as there's no glue or plastic attached it should be fine.  I would make sure he is not eating large amounts of it, or he could develop a blockage.  Otherwise let him go nuts!

[Jo Ann]

   Also make sure there are no staples in the box holding it together.  Chins also love empty paper towel rolls, empty tolit paper rolls ... these two are usually put together with a paste made of flour and are pretty safe.  Just make sure he/she has a lava stone and pine chew blocks to chew on also.    

   Jo Ann

[Jenova]

The cardboard boxes that cans of coke come in. 

My three girls can destroy one of those in a night. Then I find them in the morning sitting on the flattened remains surrounded by shredded cardboard. They love cardboard boxes almost as much as they love raisins. 

[ABC Chinchillas]

chinchillas rarely injest what they are chewing on. Mine love cardboard. I give them empty tissue boxes and cardboard tubes stuff like that. they love it. It is pretty darn funny to see three huge pregnant girls from my colony all try to fit in the same box at the same time!

[gartock]

After I read this a few days ago I gave my chin a piece of cardboard box. She looked the other way but I came back a few hours and it was torn apart and moved through out the cage. If I put a new piece in she run to it and takes it out of my hand before I can put it down. She gets more excited about it than eating raisons or even oats.

[Abby W.]

Oh yes, chinchillas love cardboard.  I get industrial size cardboard tubes from my local carpet store, adn then cut them into 3-6" sections.  The chins always find unique ways to play with them.  The other day I had a male duck his head and front legs through one of the smaller sections and then stand up so he was wearing it like a skirt!  Then he was uspet because he couldn't move around very well, and I had to take it off of him 

[Jo Ann]

   I have a couple of chins that learned, as kits, how to walk on top of the big tubes, rolling them around the cage and to the J-feeder to eat.  It got quite funny at times.   Especially when they would get on it at the same time, wanting to go in opposit directions, often ending up in throwing the other one off or causing the tube to go round and round.       

three huge pregnant girls from my colony all try to fit in the same box at the same time!

  Starleomach, have these three pregnant girls had kits before, while living in the colony?    How many males and females live in this colony together?

   Jo Ann

[Jenova]

My little Chong.


Cheech in a box.


Yeah they love cardboard.