mistywaterwoman
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Thought I would introduce you all to my six lovely chinchilla girls!! Let me start off by saying that if anyone wants to research chins as pets, I have a website just for that purpose, www.petchinchillas.info 
I got my first chinchilla Sally (Princess Sally Acorn of Knothole Village) in January of 2006. We'd had hamsters for years, and although I loved having "pocket pets", their 2-3 year lifespan was depressing, so we looked around for a longer-lived pet and found chinchillas!!
This is Sally:
She's a standard grey, and SUCH a sweetie! She loves to give me whisker kisses before bed.
Sally seemed lonesome, so a few weeks after we got her, I bought a larger cage and went back to the pet shop for the other girl that Sally had been caged with.
This is Amy Rose. She's a silver (mosaic).
Amy is a STINKER. I had a hard time keeping one step ahead of her, she gets into everything!! I always like to joke that if I'd gotten Amy first, she'd be my only chin. Good thing she's pretty, lol.
Six months later, in November of 2006, a friend of mine in upstate NY was looking for a male pink/white chinchilla, and I went through a bunch of online listings to help her find one. I ran across an ad for a pink/white GIRL, born at a rescue in AL, driving distance for me!! My hubby said she could be my Christmas present, and she's the best present I ever got.
This is Tami, my heart outside of my body:
I tried getting the 3 of them to live together, but Tami and Amy HATED each other on sight (still do!) so eventually I started looking around for a young chin that I knew I could bond to Tami, who by this time was over a year old.
I found a breeder in MS who had a violet baby for sale, so I brought Evie home to be a cagemate to Tami.
Evie was a darling little angel, but unfortunately, when she was only a year and a half old, we found out she had maloclussion. I spent the next two years bringing her in for teeth trimmings, and handfeeding her with a syringe, until things got so bad we had to have her PTS, which completely broke my heart.
While all this was going on with Evie, I adopted a Black Velvet girl from the Canadian Chinchilla Rescue in Toronto. Seven wonderful friends from my chin forum volunteered to "railroad" her all the way down the east coast to FL, where I picked her up.
This is Patty McFatty, and she is just the most friendly chinchilla EVER.
My thinking was that when Evie's time came, I could pair up Tami and Patty, but unfortunately Tami also hated Patty on sight, lol. (Tami is a bit of a diva.)
I arranged for another railroad and adopted another girl from the CCR a year later. She's a homo beige girl named Phoebe.
Phoebe had been at the CCR for over a year, so I took her. She's a darling, but she doesn't want to live with Patty either, so she and Patty are my two "single" girls.
After we lost Evie, Tami went into a decline, and I knew I had to find another "baby" that she would accept as a cagemate. My hubby said "This is your LAST one, so get the one you REALLY want." So I asked my breeder friend in Canada if she would reserve her next Lowe Recessive White girl for me, and she did!!
Railroads are not an option for me anymore, because I now have a 2 year old who doesn't like long car rides, so we had Ruby flown in and picked her up at the airport. It worked out pretty well, she only had 6 hours of "travel time" and she was the only animal on both flights. The guys at the airport had NO idea what she was, lol.
Here's my new baby Ruby:
Pics don't do her justice, her coloring is sort of a toasted marshmellow look.
I have two pairs and two singles, and they all live in Ferret Nation cages with loads of goodies, and they all get playtime every single night.
I got my first chinchilla Sally (Princess Sally Acorn of Knothole Village) in January of 2006. We'd had hamsters for years, and although I loved having "pocket pets", their 2-3 year lifespan was depressing, so we looked around for a longer-lived pet and found chinchillas!!
This is Sally:
She's a standard grey, and SUCH a sweetie! She loves to give me whisker kisses before bed.
Sally seemed lonesome, so a few weeks after we got her, I bought a larger cage and went back to the pet shop for the other girl that Sally had been caged with.
This is Amy Rose. She's a silver (mosaic).
Amy is a STINKER. I had a hard time keeping one step ahead of her, she gets into everything!! I always like to joke that if I'd gotten Amy first, she'd be my only chin. Good thing she's pretty, lol.
Six months later, in November of 2006, a friend of mine in upstate NY was looking for a male pink/white chinchilla, and I went through a bunch of online listings to help her find one. I ran across an ad for a pink/white GIRL, born at a rescue in AL, driving distance for me!! My hubby said she could be my Christmas present, and she's the best present I ever got.
This is Tami, my heart outside of my body:
I tried getting the 3 of them to live together, but Tami and Amy HATED each other on sight (still do!) so eventually I started looking around for a young chin that I knew I could bond to Tami, who by this time was over a year old.
I found a breeder in MS who had a violet baby for sale, so I brought Evie home to be a cagemate to Tami.
Evie was a darling little angel, but unfortunately, when she was only a year and a half old, we found out she had maloclussion. I spent the next two years bringing her in for teeth trimmings, and handfeeding her with a syringe, until things got so bad we had to have her PTS, which completely broke my heart.
While all this was going on with Evie, I adopted a Black Velvet girl from the Canadian Chinchilla Rescue in Toronto. Seven wonderful friends from my chin forum volunteered to "railroad" her all the way down the east coast to FL, where I picked her up.
This is Patty McFatty, and she is just the most friendly chinchilla EVER.
My thinking was that when Evie's time came, I could pair up Tami and Patty, but unfortunately Tami also hated Patty on sight, lol. (Tami is a bit of a diva.)
I arranged for another railroad and adopted another girl from the CCR a year later. She's a homo beige girl named Phoebe.
Phoebe had been at the CCR for over a year, so I took her. She's a darling, but she doesn't want to live with Patty either, so she and Patty are my two "single" girls.
After we lost Evie, Tami went into a decline, and I knew I had to find another "baby" that she would accept as a cagemate. My hubby said "This is your LAST one, so get the one you REALLY want." So I asked my breeder friend in Canada if she would reserve her next Lowe Recessive White girl for me, and she did!!
Railroads are not an option for me anymore, because I now have a 2 year old who doesn't like long car rides, so we had Ruby flown in and picked her up at the airport. It worked out pretty well, she only had 6 hours of "travel time" and she was the only animal on both flights. The guys at the airport had NO idea what she was, lol.
Here's my new baby Ruby:
Pics don't do her justice, her coloring is sort of a toasted marshmellow look.
I have two pairs and two singles, and they all live in Ferret Nation cages with loads of goodies, and they all get playtime every single night.
