Are you allowed to have chinchillas as pets in Australia?

I live in Queensland in Australia and I was just wondering if your allowed to have Chinchillas as pets here, and if you need a license or something, and if anyone knows some important facts about them that you could share, as im looking to get one. So if anyone out there lives where I do has Chinchillas to sell or knows someone thats sells/breeds them please tell me. Thanks :)Are you allowed to have chinchillas as pets in Australia?No, not at the moment.



Unfortunately, under Import Condition C9086, the importation of live chinchillas as pets into Australia is prohibited. Chinchillas may only be imported into scientific institutions approved by quarantine or registered A class zoos, where they are held in permanent quarantine for the remainder of their lives.



There is currently no protocol in place for the importation of chinchillas into Australia to be kept in a domestic situation.



Please be aware that AQIS operates under the Quarantine Act 1908 which states that any animal arriving in Australia that does not fully comply with Australian import requirements will be immediately returned to the country of export or, in extreme circumstances, euthanased at the owner鈥檚 expense. Obviously this would be a most undesirable situation to all concerned.Are you allowed to have chinchillas as pets in Australia?Please read this the short answer is no.



The British really messed up with the importation of the rabbit to Australia, they like took over....no natural enemy's or the predator base in Australia was not sufficient to deal with the excessive birthrates of rabbits compared to the indigenous herbivore species.



The average female chinchillas is three litter per year and six kits the average, these little guys breed faster than rabbits.



Inkidos wallabys, wombats etc have a much lower birthrate than the rabbit, so these indigenous animals are outbreed by the rabbit / Chinchillas and so the food source becomes more limited when you see that rabbits eat many more plants than say an australian possum. Also the rabbit introdues diseases and so would the chinchillas.



Good question hope my answer was sufficient for your needsAre you allowed to have chinchillas as pets in Australia?no