Recommended pet for single bloke

[YAKOBU]

Hi everyone

Sorry to dig out an old topic but events finally taken a turn. My local cafe where I go for lunch gifted me a chinchilla 2 weeks ago. He seems friendly enough but chews on everything. The previous owners said he was okay to roam around the room but after chewing my skirting boards, playstation lead, telephone books and packing I decided enough was enough. I have now bought a large ball that he can roam around the room in but get the impression he does not like it. The ball has plenty of breathing holes in it which I realised to my cost are large enough to let droppings through. After a 10 minute session there appeared to be excessive droppings all over my carpet which makes me think he isn't enjoying the experience. Unfortunately I do not have a garden so not sure what other options are available to me.

Any ideas anyone?

[Ja'chyra]

Chinchilla kebeb?

[YAKOBU]

You bad man! I thought haggis was the favoured scottish dish?

[Sjakihata]

or buy an acquarium for it - with no aqua in it of course ;)

[Voigtkampf]

Chinchilla kebeb?

No! Omg... No...

They make excellent coats, that's it.

Now, seriously (though chinchillas actually do make excellent coats, you'd need 50-60 of them ), I understand your grief, as I have wanted to get myself a low maintenance house pet, because I’m off to field trips a lot, and irregularly, and I currently live alone, so I can’t leave it behind, whatever it may be. Can’t get myself no dogs, birds or fish for that reason.

You are fairly out of options. Spiders might be a solution, perhaps.

Or something you can take everywhere with you… A chimp? Nah, forget it…

Btw, get a chinchilla coat, show it to your pet and say “now, you bite anything else then your food one more time…"

[The Stranger]

since you have a son, a lion is off. i would say a guiniepig (sp?) but they're dull. rabbits are cool but they breed like ..... and are lonely so i would say 2 male or 2 female rabbits.

[Steppe Merc]

You need to get a chincilla home. It's like a big huge cage that they walk around in. I've seen em in pet stores... There also seems to be many chinchilla websites, who would know stuff a bout them.
Oh, and a dust bath, for some reason. Apparently they like that.

[ichi]

dwarf hamsters



they are solitary, you can only have one or two (only if they get along, and if you pair up boys and girls you will have excess hamsters in about two weeks) in a little habitat (new name for fancy cage with little wheel and tubes for them to run in).

Get two and get them each a hamster ball (you put the hamster in the clear plastic sphere and they run around the house bumping into things) and race them.

Only live about a year or two so they good to teach kids about the cycle of life and if you don't like them then the prob solves itself.

Have to clean their habitats every 7-10 days.

ichi

[Drisos]

dwarf hamsters

how cute! I'm sure you kid can't resist those. listen to Ichi and get them soon!

[Beirut]

You are fairly out of options. Spiders might be a solution, perhaps.

Ha! Two of my buddies were living in an apartment. One had a big black scorpion in a terrarium. One day the thing dies. So he takes it out, gets rid of it and leaves for a few days

The other guy comes home late that night. Puts his stuff away, opens a beer, then notices the top is not all the way covering the now empty terrarium.

"Ack!"

Needless to say, he slept poorly that night.

Spiders? Ya. big ones!

[Voigtkampf]

Ha!

Spiders? Ya. big ones!

They should be hairy too.

[Steppe Merc]

What the heck is a degus?

[Fragony]

Hi everyone

Sorry to dig out an old topic but events finally taken a turn. My local cafe where I go for lunch gifted me a chinchilla 2 weeks ago. He seems friendly enough but chews on everything. The previous owners said he was okay to roam around the room but after chewing my skirting boards, playstation lead, telephone books and packing I decided enough was enough. I have now bought a large ball that he can roam around the room in but get the impression he does not like it. The ball has plenty of breathing holes in it which I realised to my cost are large enough to let droppings through. After a 10 minute session there appeared to be excessive droppings all over my carpet which makes me think he isn't enjoying the experience. Unfortunately I do not have a garden so not sure what other options are available to me.

Any ideas anyone?

Rodents are obsessed with wires, if they can they will chew it. One of these problems that solves itselve ; zappppppp