aww i used to have a chinchilla as well^^ i love those little guys :3

Squee, he's adorables~ ;-; he looks really small toos... dawww~ <3 I luff how he's just lying in the wheel like it's a hammock~ >> *bats at the cute poofy-tipped tail*

He has a hammock too actually - ya just can't see it here. :3

DAAAAAAAAW! want to squeeze.

I'm with you on that one! We should pig pile the lil' thing and fight over who gets to squeeze it.

I will win. I have irritating female whine power. =P

That's cheating! I have .... a tail? Teeth? >.>

the high pitch of my whine will break your eardrums, and your blood will gush out. there will never even be a battle...

Oh I see how it is. =P

Spazz is cute :3

aww very cute i have a chinchilla named misty she is albino

I've always loved the beige-coloured ones. I used to want to get a girlfriend for him, but I never got around to it. He's happy being a loner, though - he gets apple wood chews and blueberry/mixed berry yogurt drops. >w<

awwwww this makes me miss my chinchin. I gave him away because i wanted him to have a better home since i wasn't home enough and had a lot of other animals. Soo adorable!

Awww. I've wanted a Chinchilla but I've never had one! The seem like they'd be badass little pets.

well hes just the cutest little chinchilla ever!
i dont think i could get one though. ive had rodents in the past and they annoy the shit out of me with their noise and chewing and running. but they are cute!

These guys don't smell at all, they really only shed when spooked (a small tuft of expelled fluff in your hands is actually kinda interesting, haha..), and the running/chewing is fine depending on what you get. If you get a Silent Spinner wheel, largest size available, that takes care of the loud running...unless your chin is a fatty-butt like Spazz. He runs all the time and gets minimal snacks, yet he breaks wheels after awhile. Anyway, a NORMAL chin would be just fine in one of those; anything else I've tried snapped after a month or two cause he was super energetic as a little fella. He still loves to run, just not quite as crazily. Edible houses are a good idea as long as they're chinchilla-safe (certain woods can cause severe harm or death), and I got him a little hammock last year that he absolutely loves. They're very easy to care for - clean the cage out once a month, a dust bath 1-2 times a week, and 1-2 tbs of food every night (dump the old food out each time). It also helps to keep the food in the fridge or freezer - keeps it fresh longer, and they don't mind the cold. :3

tbs = tbsp* (sorry, typo'd as usual!)

idk. i think id be so scared that id hate it. i had three hamsters once and they were awful. you sure do know how to care for one though(a chinchilla i mean, not a hamster, although im sure would have no problem with those things either). i commend you.
ive got my heart set on a finch or two and a cat though. gonna concentrate on begging my dad for one of those. ><

I've had two hamsters... One was a sweetheart that keeled over one day (had him for a year, so it was likely old age since they don't live long anyway), and the other was a biatch. D<

Some people complain of their chinchillas biting, but I swear 95% of the time it's how they're raised... Some of them might just be naturally grumpy for life, but with proper socialization (and if you get 'em as babies - that's the best thing to do), even most of the biters can turn soft and loveable. Spazz is the only chin I've ever owned, but I've read up on them a lot and also learned a bit from my mom, as she used to own one herself at some point before I came into the world. :P

Finches, omg... What kind? We used to have a pair of Gouldian finches... I remember the male had a red face and would always wake up at 4-5am and do his mating dance. It was hilarious... He'd hop up and down on the topmost perch and tweet his little heart out. Their first two babies never hatched, but the third did and was a little sweetie. cx

aw, at least youve had nice hamsters. ish. i think what happened was we made the mistake of getting three at once. a dwarf, a bear hamster, and something else. the bigger ones killed the dwarf, and the other two fought a lot. one ended up with no eyes. and the other with only one. you have no idea how glad i was when all of them died. which is horrible. but seriously.

i want to pet your chinchilla. and yeah, i think getting any animal as a baby is a good idea. but i feel badly for adults as well! for instance, at an animal shelter. ill probably end up getting kittens and adult cats alike whenever i can manage it.

im not sure what kind. but i want them to get a male and female, and i want them to have babies. i really like the more expensive ones, but i cant afford that. i also liek the plain brown ones. they remind me of sparrows. do you kno where any sparrow birds are sold? if they are at all? i see them everywhere...they should really be sold somewhere.
i feel so 'aww' about you baby birdie. <333

Oh gawd, that's horrible... I can imagine being happy about the hamsters passing on, I understand where you're coming from...ugh. D8

Rescuing adult pets is indeed a wonderful thing... I admire people who do that! <3

As for the sparrows, I'm not too sure... I saw something on Google called a house sparrow; they're legal as pets, but I have no idea how you would go about getting one. :c

<33 yes. i hope i can do all that i want to with animals and all that.

We kept Zebra finches. For years. Always a pair-one white, one black. Then one day they multiplied and haven't stopped since O_O;; At last count, I think we had fourteen (Yes, we had to buy a bigger cage. Then a second one. I dread the day my parents let it get to needing three...).

Oh gosh... Sounds like you guys need to start selling or giving away the babies. oxo;

So Silent Spinners are the best wheel to get? I just got my chinchilla on Sunday and I'm trying to find him a good wheel.

Yeah, the largest one they make. c:

awwwww So Adorable! I should post my twp chins. Not sure If I have or not. So cute!

Oh gosh, let me know if you do! >w<

Use to have one of those.

I want a chinchilla sooooooooo bad ;A;

I saw a video of one taking a bath in sand and I knew I had to get one ;A;

Gah, yes!! Spazz LOVES his dust baths. It's sooo cute. ;w;

You MUST take a video sometime *U* !!!

aww its adorable XD great pose shot

My sis has 3... a male (Darien) with a female (Minerva), and in a different cage their lil' kid who isn't named yet.

Well at least its just the blinds my sisters old one was to close to the wall and made little holes in it

Gah, that picture shows NOTHING... Those are the replacement blinds we put up two summers ago. The ones before that? They were totally destroyed where he was able to reach em. D:

Awwww. I have not seen a Chinchilla in years ^_^ Such cute and sweet little animals. Either that's a big wheel, or he's tiny for his age :3 Either way ... TOO CUTE!

Haha, nah - it's a really big wheel. It's a Silent Spinner, largest size they make. :3

Ah, very neat! My ex-brother in law used to breed Chinchillas, but they kept a few as actual pets. Too bad we didn't know about those big wheels back then, the babies would have had a blast ^__^!

Is he a snuggle cuddle of fluff and stuff?

Absolutely! <3

I got Icarus a wheel and he just acts like it's not there. D: Maybe I can show him this and be like "see what that chinchilla does? That's what you do!"

Also, it's CUTE. X3