2006-08-15 14:14:48 · 9 answers · asked by Uchihaitachi345 5 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Chinchillas are easier to handle, overall, as far as personality.... the downside is that with their fur, they constantly need a dust bath available to rid their coat of the oils they pick up from various places, including your hands. Still, totally chinchillas!
2006-08-15 15:04:30 · answer #1 · answered by MK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I breed chinchillas and have owned degus. I would say chinchillas especially if you have children. Chinchillas bought from a breeder hardly ever bite and when they do it is hardly ever serious. Degus will bite to the bone. Also, a little known fact about degus is that they have something in their saliva that can give a very bad reaction to humans. I have been bitten by chinchillas and it heals just fine. I had a degu bite and it swelled up my whole hand and didn't heal completely for months. Once I had such a bad reaction I started asking around to degu breeders and found that degu bites are very serious. Its not uncommon to have your entire hand and arm swell from a degu bite to the finger.
I don't hesitate to let me children handle my chinchillas but there is no way I would ever let one handle a degu. If you do want a degu be sure to get it from a breeder that has handled it a lot!
Also, degus are much worse chewers. You will require an all wire cage for a degu. It will eat out of anything else!
2006-08-18 08:02:19 · answer #2 · answered by chinclub 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I rather have by no ability owned a chinchilla even if i might rather desire to a minimum of sooner or later. I presently have 7 degus and that i think of they are certainly spectacular! i do no longer be responsive to the way you may desire to discover it creepy, i think of they are cute! in case you desire a puppy it rather is extremly friendly - mine come working to the element of the cage to greet me every time I walk interior the room, very energetic, playful and large exciting to observe and manage then degus are for you. they are rather undemanding to look after even in the event that they are in a position to be slightly problematic to handle yet they hardly bite. 2 degus will shop eachother employer purely effective even in the event that they do seem happiest in small communities of three or 4.
2016-12-14 06:26:46 · answer #3 · answered by casimir 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like them both but I think degus look sort of like a shrunken capybara.
2006-08-15 16:03:01 · answer #4 · answered by Rocky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chinchilla is nice. But I do have a fondness for beaver.
PETA be damned!
2006-08-15 14:19:26 · answer #5 · answered by dudeman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chinchillas
2006-08-15 14:22:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
chinchilla
2006-08-15 14:20:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
degus
2006-08-15 14:19:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NON.
2006-08-19 07:59:52 · answer #9 · answered by sulaiman s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋