​"When shopping for toys and cage accessories, it's imperative that one knows exactly which materials are chinchilla safe," Whimsy told The Spruce Pets. "Kiln-dried pine is excellent for ledges as they are safe for the chinchilla to chew, are relatively inexpensive, and are easy to clean or sand to refresh. When selecting toys, it's ideal to have a wide variety of natural materials. We always recommend having soft (like a loofah, palm, seagrass, vine, wicker, herbal hays), medium (natural, bark-on wood), and hard (pumice) toys available so that your chinchilla can utilize whatever texture they want/need. The toys a chinchilla destroys fastest are the ones they need the most. If a toy is not salient, it will serve no useful purpose. And the purpose of having chew toys is to help keep teeth trim and to provide environmental stimulation."