Speaking of totoro, many young people must think of the famous Japanese manga artist Miyazaki Hayao's "Totoro", totoro's cute image is deeply rooted in people's hearts, but there are also totoro in the real world, and many people have raised it as a pet, but this totoro is not as tall and fat as in the movie "Totoro", but this does not affect the cute temperament of Totoro itself.
Today's article will introduce you to some questions about Totoro, let's communicate together!
1. What kind of animals does totoro belong to? Where did it originate?
Speaking of totoro, judging by its name, most people would definitely think it belongs to the cat family, but this is not the case, and totoro actually belongs to the woolly mouse family.
Chinchilla, also known as Chinchira, belongs to the mammalian order - rodents - porcupine suborder - woolly rat family, currently living by artificial breeds of two species, namely long-tailed woolly rat and short-tailed woolly rat.
Native to the Andean mountains of South America, the woolly rat is also a social animal, living in mountain rock crevices at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, which makes them able to withstand the cold. Because the chinchilla resembles the totoro in Miyazaki's movies, the Hong Kong people later renamed the chinchilla to totoro, and this name continues to this day.
Second, what is the survival history of wild chinchillas?
In the early days, people have begun to benefit from the woolly rat, their fur was used by people to make clothes, until the early 19th century, the fur of the woolly rat has become the raw material for noble fur coats, with the continuous hunting of people, the subsequent time, the number of woolly rats is also smaller and smaller, once endangered. Later, due to the 3 female chinchillas and 8 male chinchillas captured by a mining engineer in the United States, M.F. Chapman, they were brought back to the United States, and then the United States and Canada began to have the breeding behavior of the chinchilla, which slowly expanded the chinchilla breeding industry, so that the chinchilla could be bred.
Nowadays, we can keep such a cute pet back to the roots thanks to the American mining engineer Mr. Chapman, although the chinchilla has experienced human hunting, but now they can be integrated into people's lives, which is also a perfect ending for the chinchilla.
3. What does a totoro that can be used as a pet look like?
Their appearance is very similar to that of rabbits and squirrels, they are small but obese, and their tails are similar to the tails of squirrels.
Totoro likes to live in a dry and cool environment, they do not like strong sunlight, usually sleep during the day and active at night, their personality is more docile, like to live in groups, but also like to be a quiet beautiful man. Totoro's response to the environment is very sensitive, coupled with a timid and shy personality, as a pet is also a very good choice.
Totoro also has the ability to live independently, the general healthy totoro can live to 10-15 years, the limit life can live to 20 years, and the time to keep a totoro with the owner can be comparable to many dogs.
4. What do I need to pay attention to when raising a totoro for the first time?
1. For a few days after you have just bought the Totoro home, try not to disturb it, because the Totoro needs to slowly adapt to this new environment.
2. After the totoro takes it home, try not to forcibly hold it, and do not use your hands to catch it, if you force it to do an action that it does not like, it will make it have a sense of fear of the owner.
3. Maybe the totoro who just arrived home will eat less in the first few days, and there is a drowsiness, in fact, these are normal phenomena, the owner does not have to worry too much, a few days of not eating for the health of the totoro will not cause serious harm, usually this abnormal behavior will last for 3-5 days.
4. Don't feed snacks randomly because the totoro that has just arrived home does not eat, and the messy feeding snacks will cause some fatal diseases to the totoro.
5. Unlike raising dogs, the dog that has just been bought home cannot be bathed, and the totoro can be bathed just after arriving home (the totoro bath only needs to use special bath sand and bath tub, oh, it is not necessary to use water), bathing it can alleviate the discomfort of its transportation, and put the bath tub in the cage for about an hour every day.
6. Chinchillas who have just arrived home should not release it from the cage to move freely, if they are not familiar with the new environment, they may bite the furniture or wires at home after releasing it.
5. Summary
If you master the basic living habits and breeding skills of totoro, in fact, raising a totoro is not a troublesome thing, raising a totoro as a pet is not as complicated as raising cats and dogs, for owners who do not have too much time to take care of pets, choosing to raise a totoro is indeed a good choice, if you also have a vision of Miyazaki Hayao movie totoro, quickly raise a small dragon cat as your pet!
Regarding Totoro, if you have more breeding skills, I hope to communicate together in the comment area