Did you know?

Despite the common claim, chinchillas are not hypo-allergenic. They require regular dust baths and access to hay at all times. If you are allergic to either of these things, a chinchilla is not the right pet for you.

Did you know?

Chinchilla teeth are constantly growing. They need to have a variety of toys made of safe hardwood, willow/grapevine, cardboard and other materials. Because they need variety, you should be prepared to switch out toys every month. Chinchillas are intelligent animals, and this helps to keep them interested in their environment, and stimulates them.

New Arrivals

New arrivals spend 30 days in Quarantine while we assess their health and behavior, personalities, food and water intake, any challenges the chin may have. Each chinchilla has a wellness check during this period if they did not have one recently at a previous rescue.

If, after quarantine, the chinchilla is suitable for adoption, it will become available from our rescue at that time. If issues arise, we work intensively with the chinchilla to overcome them. In some cases, health or behavior may be such that we place the chinchilla in our Permanently Home family (sanctuary). These chinchillas will be available for sponsorship only, as placing them in an adoptive home will place unnecessary stress on both the chin and the adoptive family.

We currently have no new arrivals.

You may notice, in the pictures, that the chinchillas here have fleece sets in their cages. When a new chinchilla arrives here, we buy fleece and then sew him/her a hammock, pillow, house, fleece tunnel and two liners for his/her cage. We believe that the softness of fleece is reassuring to the chins, and that having such things helps smooth the transition to the new surroundings encountered here. Our belief has been furthered by the fact that each chinchilla that's come here has taken to its tunnel immediately, and for the first few weeks, will rarely leave it. These fleece sets belong to the chinchillas, and each pattern/color combination is unique to each chin.