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Summary: Learn how to care for a pair of chinchillas in this free video clip.

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Lauren Von Lehe Lauren Von Lehe began the Chinchilla Rescue and Adoption Network while living in Arizona and working at the Second Chance Center for Animals. They were not ab... read more

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Caring for Pairs of Chinchillas

This is Lauren on behalf of Expert Village and we are talking about chinchillas living in pairs. Chinchillas can live very happily together in groups or as singles. In the wild they can live up to hundreds in the herd, so they tend to get along pretty well together. I do recommend though that you have to be pretty careful in introducing them if they are older than a couple years old, if they've lived on their own for awhile, because they can tend to be territorial and then if you introduce another one into the cage they tend to fight. Another caution is two males living together. Female-female pairs tend to be good or a male-female pair as long as one of them is fixed. The caution of the male to male pairs is that sometimes when they reach maturity they can decide not to be friends anymore and you can have a problem on your hands that will start fighting. Sometimes there's blood or sometimes they'll even fight to the death. This can happen even after they have lived happily together for many years and then all of a sudden one day they just don't want to do it anymore. So that is something to consider when you are thinking about pairing up your chinchillas. Also with the male to female pairs, a lot of people put them together and just assume that they're not going to have babies. I just want to let you know that they can and will breed if you put them together. If they do have babies, you have to take the male out as it's not safe to have him in there with the mother or the babies. There could be rebreeding going on and then you would have one after the next litter that keeps being born. Stay with us and we're going to talk about "Chinchillas in Pairs: Part Two".

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