Heartwarming Chin Rumor/Story

[greeneyedbaby190]

On a regular basis I go by the pet store in my city in New Mexico to look for leaping ledges and make sure that the chins are getting their baths...as well as picking up hay and looking for safe toys for my 3 girls. The last time I was in there, however, the owner of the shop told me a delightful yet sad story involving a chinchilla.

Apparently she had a woman bring a chinchilla in, who she was carrying around in a dog carrier. Now just for note, this woman did not even know what a chinchilla store was before she stepped foot into the pet with her standard girl. She had found the chinchilla on her front porch that morning being stalked by a cat, and since she figured the animal must belong to someone since they are not native to New Mexico she scooped her up and went shopping. The woman bought everything a chinchilla could ever want, and then some. A very nice cage with no plastic, a wood house, bath, dust, food...all of this for an animal that randomly showed up on her front porch.

I was very happy when I heard, since that means that not all people in this area are mean...but at the same time sad that someone allowed their chin to escape or even let the girl go, especially when we have been having 90 degree heat down here.

 

[rainey]

Wow that's crazy that it was on her porch, the poor thing must have been so scared! I wonder how it escaped....

 

[Khammy]

Call it fate? I love this story because it reminds me of how I got my first dog. He found me by jumping into my front porch in the middle of the night hungry, flea ridden and horny (my boyfriend at the time's female dog was in heat... haha). I took him to the shelter in case anyone was looking for him but when no one came looking, I took him in myself. He stayed with me for about 9 years before he passed and I still think it was fate that he found me and adopted me.