1. How to care for chinchilla ears
1 . First, take a cotton swab and soak it in boric acid water, and then use it to gently wipe off the residue in the chinchilla’s ear. Generally, it takes 2~4 cotton swabs to clean one ear of chinchilla.
2. After the initial cleaning of the chinchilla’s ears, the next step is to use ear drops for further cleaning. Pull up the ears of chinchillas, and then squeeze an appropriate amount of ear drops into the depths of their ears. Drop 2~3 drops of ear drops in one ear. After dripping, gently massage the roots of their ears with your hands to encourage the dripping. The ear fluid is evenly distributed, then pay attention to fix their heads, and release them after about half a minute to let them shake the dirt out of the ears.
The above is the method of deep cleaning the ears of chinchillas. Generally, the ears of chinchillas need to be deeply cleaned when there is a lot of dirt on their ears. If your chinchilla’s ears are not very dirty, you can usually use a cotton ball dipped in ear oil to simply clean the inside of their ears.
2. Precautions for care of chinchilla ears
1. After instilling the ear drops on the chinchilla’s ear, be sure to massage its ears, so that the ear drops are evenly distributed on its ears, and fix its head, don’t release it immediately, wait it out Release it after half a minute, so as to avoid incomplete cleaning, which leads to the need to repeat it again.
2. Pet owners usually don’t try to help chinchillas through their ears, because chinchillas’ ears are very fragile. When pet owners help chinchillas to care for their ears, they should also be careful and gentle, so as not to damage their ears.
3. The pet owner can regularly check the chinchilla’s ears for odor, inflammation or earwax accumulation, but if there is not much earwax, the pet owner does not need to clean its ears immediately, because the earwax is in the ears. In a small amount, it has a natural protective effect on its ear canal, so it is generally necessary to help chinchillas to clean their ear canal when there is a lot of accumulated earwax.
Reminder: Chinchillas usually help themselves to clean, but pets should pay attention to providing them with sufficient bath sand. , Chinchilla will naturally use the bath sand to clean. Therefore, pet owners must pay attention to regularly changing and providing bath sand for chinchillas, and try to use chinchilla-specific bath sand.
