There are a lot of tricks that you can teach your chinchilla. Often, the first "trick" to teach your chinchilla is to socialize it to not be so shy. After that, the options are endless.

1. Learn New Chinchilla Tricks
Written By: Lindsey Perkins – The Chinchilla Guide
Chinchillas are exotic pets and they are really famous in South
American countries where they are found. Chinchillas are natives of
South America and you can find them near Andes. Since they are small
and soft they are favorite pets among the females and many other
people like them because they look cute. Chinchillas are very agile by
nature and therefore they never like to stay in one place. Hence, pet
owners who own chinchillas need to be extra
careful with them as they can jump places
quickly and could lead to different situations.
However, they are very quick at learning new
tricks.
There are many chinchilla tricks that you can
find online and on some animal care forums.
You can search more about the chinchilla
tricks on cyberspace because you will be interacting with a lot of
chinchilla owners directly who have already taught their pets some
tricks which can be learned easily. If you have a chinchilla and if you
observe them carefully you will come to know that they repeat things
all the time and therefore if you want to teach them some chinchilla
tricks than you have to teach them regularly so that they repeat it over
and over and finally get into the flow and become experts.
One of the best tricks that you can teach them is to let them
understand their names. Of course that does not sound like a name
but it is because they can recognize their names. The best way to make
them understand is to call their names whenever you want to call
them. They will not be able to get that earlier but soon they will begin
Learn New Chinchilla Tricks

2. to know that this word is their name and when you say that name they
have to approach you or pay attention to you.
Another way to teach them great tricks is by setting and changing the
places of food and water in the cage. Chinchilla tricks have one thing in
common that you need to teach new tricks over a period of time to
make them understand what they need to do. Chinchillas might not
react to new tricks immediately and therefore you have to be patient
with them. However, when you make a routine for them they will react
very quickly to your tricks and will baffled you with their lighting speed
responses and moves.
If you want to get a little personal with them than you can hold them
with both your hands and keep a piece of food on your shoulders so
that they climb up your hand and sit on your shoulder to enjoy their
meals. If you keep repeating the same over and over, they will always
prefer to sit on your shoulders because they know that it is the best
place to eat meals and that you will give them a meal in few moments.
On the other hand, you are encouraging them to climb which is what
they love because of their agile and active nature.
Learn New Chinchilla Tricks