Fleas

[Debbie.nl.ca]

It's been some time sense I've heard talk about fleas in chins, a gal on fb is saying chins can indeed get fleas.  Anyone else got new news on chinchillas getting fleas?
Folks would want to be very careful if you have other pets with fleas.

[dianah]

i thought it was very hard for them to get anywhere near the skin and hence they don't bother.

[chinclub]

A good quality chinchilla can not get fleas, but with so many "backyard breeders" around these days I have seen some pretty pathetic looking chinchillas.  I imagine that a poor quality chinchilla could have such bad fur that fleas could be a problem.  Most of the time they see normal grooming or itching from not enough or too many dust baths and just assume fleas.  When people ask me I tell them to blow into the fur.  If you see little to no skin fleas are not possible.  If you have a thin furred chinchilla and can see a good bit of skin then watch for fleas.

[starleomach]

Like Jamie said a high quality chinchilla will not likely get fleas but anything is possible. With more people breeding poor quality chinchillas, it is a little lore common for chinchillas to get fleas now

[Debbie.nl.ca]

The lady whom mentioned said if it was a bad infestation they could, but who ever would let animals get that infested that chins would get fleas needs the animals removed.
With that bad of infestation a teddy bear would get fleas