Out-of-cage playtime
Chinchillas love having time out of their cage to play and interact with their humans. This can be a fun time for all but some precautions should be taken. You will need to cover all wires, baseboards, anything wood in order to prevent a disaster.
Chinchillas are as bad as children about wanting to play with and chew on things they shouldn’t. A very easy solution is to tape up pieces of cardboard to keep her from getting to the restricted areas. Believe me, I know from experience how frustrating it is to try to keep a chinchilla from chewing when you’ve scolded them dozens of times. You have to get up and go over to the chinchilla, and most of the time they’ll scamper off just as you get there. It is a fun game for them to make you get up and “play” with them. Since we put up barriers, we can sit and enjoy watching the chinchillas bop and play instead of worrying about what they’re getting into.
Another thing I want to mention is the space underneath the doors. If the space is more than about 1/2″ then you’ll need to put wire or something at the bottom to keep them from sliding under. We learned that lesson the hard way many years ago!