Anastasi Chinchillas

A Guide to Caring for Your Chinchilla
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-937049-29-4
Verlag: CompanionHouse Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten

Reihe: Complete Care Made Easy

The delightful South American 'unrodent-like rodent' known as the chinchilla makes a playful and affectionate companion animal. Author Donna Anastasi refers to them as 'inquisitive, sensitive, intelligent, and active,' the ideal combination of intelligence and interaction anyone would want in a small pet. This Complete Care Made Easy title is an ideal introductory pet guide about the chinchilla, with detailed chapters on characteristics, selection of a healthy chinchilla, housing and care, welcoming and taming the new arrival, feeding and daily care, training, and health and veterinary care. The book offers excellent advice about feeding and nutrition, including the choice of pellets, supplements, hay, and treats. The chapter 'Understanding and Training Your Chinchilla' explains the abilities and limitations of chinchillas' senses (they're nearsighted but have exceptional hearing) and offers a great overview of how they communicate through sounds and body language. With positive reinforcement and a clicker (no leash and collar!), the chin can be trained to perform tricks for the family's entertainment, and the book gives lots of training pointers for owners! For chin fanciers who are interested in further exploration, the author includes chapters on breeding chinchillas and getting involved in chin shows. Sidebars throughout the text provide useful information to chinchilla keepers, covering such topics as chin colors, harmful human foods, daily care checklist, and show terminology. The resources include chinchilla societies, books and websites. Glossary of terms and index included.

Donna Anastasi has many years of experience with small pets. She owns chinchillas, rats, gerbils, dwarf hamsters, mice, and a hamster. She breeds show-quality gerbils at her gerbil kennel in southern New Hampshire, and she authored Complete Care Made Easy Gerbils.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anastasi, Donna