A Comprehensive Page dealing with the major and obscure maladies that plague the domestic chinchilla population. If you have accounts to add, please e-mail me . Chinchillas usually do very poorly under even light anesthesia. Additionally, mutation color chinchillas can only handle about half as much anesthesia as a standard grey.
Chinchillas have teeth that can grow longer than their bosy length in one year's time.
If not given the proper chew exercises their teeth can literally become the death of them. Chinchillas need a high amount of calcium in thier diets. One way to supplement this is to add a bit of calf manna or doe manna to their food on occasion. Lack of calcium can cause severe seizures in the chinchilla. Although the seizures may not necessarily kill the chinchilla, they are painful.