As chinchillas are agile and fast moving little pets, the dust bath will help improve their organism, they’ll love to move through all that chinchilla dust. Making a lot of movement inside cage their fur will get a little greasy and this will make your chinchilla really desperate to take a dust bath. Don’t refuse this! A dust bath will help your chinchilla to remove any dirt on his skin and also will get them to feel comfortable and relaxed. In the summer season a chinchilla can be happy with just one dust bath but when winter arrives and temperatures are low you might consider giving your chinchilla two baths to maintain it healthy and happy.
Don’t let a smoker close to chinchillas!
If you are having a smoking person inside your house or inside your apartment then you also should consider that the cigarette’s tare may land on your chinchilla’s fur and it is going to attach on it for sure. As a chinchilla often checks his fur by linking it, that tar can prove to be really dangerous for the cute creature. By doing a dust bath at that moment you will remove any possible issues or diseases that such a bad event can cause. When you take your chinchilla to make a relaxing dust bath you can improve the pets pleasure by inserting other lovely smelling ingredients into the dust.
Experts suggest that your chinchilla should be fine with just a dust bath per week but as the weather is getting colder you should do them more baths. If you have a chinchilla that recently had babies then under any circumstances you must not give it a bath for two weeks. By doing this you will avoid them to get any kind of infection. Well, the new born chinchillas have no restriction to such a thing, so they can enjoy taking dust baths.