Hello, my name is Eric. My gf and I are thinking about getting a Chinchilla, she has always wanted one and i been looking them up and listening to her talk about them so we think we will be wanting one very soon. We use to own rats. We bought them at Petsmart and we were told after the fact that Petsmart isnt a good place to get pets because they dont take care of them and are prone to more problems. So are rats died on us recently so we want to replace the void of not having a pet we can take care of.
So, for me im always wanting to buy my animals affection, what things to do you recommend getting Chinchillas, we already have a big cage which we kept our rats in, we changed it around some to give it more room and im pretty sure our chinchilla will like it.
What are some things we should know about owning a chinchilla?
We have been looking around our area and not having much luck at finding chinchillas, where would we go about getting one, we live in Thousand Oaks, California, its in Ventura County.
Any and all advice woudl be great, thank you.