People often say that chinchillas are very expensive animals. That is not true and I want to show you that here: Purchase Costs You can buy chinchillas in hobby breeding farms starting up from 15 €, in pet shops starting from 40 € for standards and 60 € for colours. Prices can raise up to 500 €, but normally are about 80 €. For the right cage you have to pay about 80 €. It is much cheaper if you build up a cage on your own. Feeding bowl, hay bowl, watter bottle, house and the other stuff for the cage costs about 50 € and then the cage is ready for the new friend to move in. Purchase costs are about 200 €. Costs of Living As the purchase costs are a little bit high the costs of living are really cheap. Pellets are sold about 1,50 € per kilogramm. This lasts for one chinchilla about 1 month Hay for one month costs about 2 € Chinchilla bathing sand costs about 4 € per kilogramm. If you clean up the sand by weeding out regularly this supply lasts very long Specials are about 3 € per month (but you should be careful not to give your chin too much because that is not that good for him) Costs of Living are about 10 - 15 € per month. Other Costs There is always the possibility that your chinchilla gets ill and has to see the vet. The costs for a veterinary examination depend on the vet and the illness and can start from 5 € and raise up to 100 € or more. Summarized you can say that a chinchilla is a not too expensive pet. Please remember that a chinchilla can become 22 years old and therefore the purchase costs are not that high. And the costs of living are not to high, too.