What is the best small pet to have at home?
Choosing the right small pet
- Gerbils as pets. Gerbils are great fun to watch.
- Hamsters as pets. Hamsters are fun and active pets.
- Mice as pets. Mice are natural explorers and can provide hours of fun to watch as they climb rope and dash through tunnels.
- Rats as pets.
- Guinea pigs as pets.
- Chinchillas as pets.
- Rabbits as pets.
What are examples of small animals?
Common small mammal pets include:
- Rats.
- Mice.
- Hamsters.
- Gerbils.
- Guinea pigs.
- Pygmy hedgehogs.
- Sugar gliders.
- Other small animals.
Do pets at home sell chipmunks?
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Which is a small animal?
The Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus), also known as the Etruscan Pygmy Shrew and the White-toothed Pygmy Shrew, weighs only 0.04–0.1 oz (1.2–2.7 g). That makes it the world’s smallest mammal when measured by weight, but, at 1.4–2 in (36–53 mm), it loses out to the bumblebee bat for smallest in length.
What counts as a small animal?
Small animals means birds, reptiles, rabbits, ferrets or similar sized animals. Small animals means rabbits, hares, guinea pigs, dogs, cats, chinchillas, chickens, turkeys, guineas, geese, ducks, hamsters, pigeons (except homing pigeons) or any other animal of similar size or stature.
Can I have a chipmunk as a pet UK?
Can I have chipmunks as pets? Chipmunks have only been kept as pets for a relatively short time and experts are still learning about how best to care for them. If you currently own a chipmunk as a pet, it’s legal to keep your chipmunk until the end of their natural life, however, you’re now unable to buy another.