Do you know any one who has a pet chipmunk?

How do u care for it?Do you know any one who has a pet chipmunk?
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After a large cage and other required rooms have arranged for chipmunks, chipmunks are very easy and cheap pets. When chipmunks are young it's really worth spending plenty of time with them and keeping them in hands, because chipmunks, who have used to handling in their childhood, are extremely easy pets in the future. This hand taming is a thing that is hard or impossible to patch up in older age. If a chipmunk hasn't used to handling from its early ages, it considers catching hands as a threat also afterwards and starts struggling away. Chipmunks are also easy in the sense that when chipmunks get used to make their pees and poops in one certain place, you don't always have to clean up the whole cage. Many times it's all sufficient to clean only the loo place.


FEEDING!


Chipmunks are almost omnivorous pets. They smell the food already from a far and it's very easy to entice them with goodies. Compared to my dog, my chipmunks are also greedy and they hoard all extra food in they storages against a rainy day. If I open a frozen vegetable bag, carrots and cauliflowers are the only ones which are good enough for my dog whereas my chipmunks eat eagerly everything from the bag. My dog doesn't concern about corn flakes at all, but my chipmunks eat them very willingly. Food hoarding and storing food to their secret hiding-place is peculiarly typical for female chipmunks. On the contrary, male chipmunks start more easily eat their food haul immediately and thus they have easily predisposition to get fat.As a base food chipmunks eat normal seed mixture for rodents. Nuts and sunflower seeds fatten easy and thus you should avoid giving them too much to chipmunks. However, they are not forbidden, only give them with deliberation. Furthermore there have to be a drink bottle, limestone and mineralstone in the cage. It would also be advisable to give them some vegetables, berries or fruits every week. For exemple a cucumber and an apple are popular with chipmunks, but it's better to chose vegetables always according to the circumstances. If you buy something for yourself, you can give also a taste for chipmunks at the same time. Chipmunks like variable diet, so don't give them always the same food. In autumn you can find a lot of different berries from a forest and up to the present they have liked all the berries which I have brought to them (rowan-berries, blueberries, lingonberries, bog whortleberries, currants, raspberries, hips...). Chipmunk's handling and hand taming


As I told earlier, chipmunks don't become totally tame, if they haven't been made familiar with human beings nearly from their birth. It means that both their breeder and their first owner have to keep company for them and keep them in hands almost daily during their first months. Besides, it's much easier to start familiarizing when chipmunks are young and thus they can't yet run so fast or jump so long leaps. Because chipmunks are very lively pets, you should let them run free outside from their cage every now and then - especially if their cage is not peculiarly large. You can read over the subjects 'chipmunk's cage' and 'outside from the cage' from their own pages.





Nails, teeth etc.


There is no need to cut chipmunk's nails, because the nails wear by themselves while chipmunks are bustling. On the other hand, sharp nails are necessary equipment for chipmunks, because they trust firmly in their nails and in the fact that the nails grip always when chipmunks are climbing or jumping high. However, you can render the wearing of the nails more effective by putting big stones to the bottom of their cage.





In order that chipmunk's teeth wouldn't grow too long, there should be always some hard food (for example willow twigs) to biting





You never have to wash chipmunks or take care of their fur. Chipmunks do keep their own fur clean.