I am SO relieved your chin is back with you! My very first chinchilla Pip was found outside underneath our van in our driveway and my husband chased him around the complex and finally captured him. No one claimed him so we kept him and found out six months later that he actually belonged to a young boy who lived in the same complex and apparently he didn't have his cage door properly secured and he escaped outside. I still have Pip (and six more now, lol) and he is close to five years old now and is very big and healthy and of course my favourite fuzz butt.