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Hi there, my name is Heather and I live in Utah, and work full time as a Veterinary Assistant/Pet Groomer for my father who is a veterinarian. I recently adopted 2 adult chinchillas, Salt (White w/blue eyes), and Pepper (Black Velvet). They are around 1 year old. They are not my first chinchilla's I've had multiple in the past but my last one died about 6 years ago, Baby, whom was one that I bottle fed, he was found in a park with 2 kids playing catch with him when he was only a few days old. I have many waiting at the bridge, most were rescues, Bonnie, Clyde (standard greys), Annie (white with silver tail), Oakley (beige), Jesse (black velvet) and Baby (standard grey) all waiting at the bridge. I've also had several hedgehogs in the past, Hillary, Henry and Spike, Hillary was an albino, and Henry and Spike were just the standard color. They were rescues as well.
Anyways for Salt and Pepper, my sister works at Petco and someone brought them in because they didn't want them any more, she already had 1 chinchilla so decided to take them home. I saw them and they were/had been slightly nervous with her, but Pepper jumped right into my hand. It was love at first site! My sister was willing to part with them if I could convince my hubby to let me have them. That was around Sept 10th. Well I kept showing my hubby their adorable pictures and tried to convince him that I needed them (should add that hubby was NOT an animal person before we met). My birthday was Sept 25th, so he calls me at work 30 minutes before I left and tells me I can bring home the "rats" as he was affectionately calling them until he met them lol. So hubby spent the night (he works graves so is up all night), researching about them on the internet, and decided that their cage was inadequate as it was too small, and had only a wire bottom it was one level and not very big at all, so he took me to get them supplies on/for my birthday, we got them a HUGE cage, it's taller than me! They got a new exercise wheel as they wore out the bearings on their old one from mileage, then a bin feeder, new hay rack, a bigger dust bath house, and a big huge ball for them to run around in. This was all stuff he learned! I'm so proud of him! We are both smitten, and he is saying that 'hey' our cage is big enough for a baby or we could even split it in half and they'd still have 3 different levels each...he really wants to see a baby chin. LOL One day I will own another hedgie as I miss owning them, hubby has already 'tentatively' okayed it.
I am also owned by 2 Chihuahuas, 1 Golden Retriever, 3 Cats, 1 RES Turtle, and 6 Lovebirds.
Heather, Salt & Pepper
Anyways for Salt and Pepper, my sister works at Petco and someone brought them in because they didn't want them any more, she already had 1 chinchilla so decided to take them home. I saw them and they were/had been slightly nervous with her, but Pepper jumped right into my hand. It was love at first site! My sister was willing to part with them if I could convince my hubby to let me have them. That was around Sept 10th. Well I kept showing my hubby their adorable pictures and tried to convince him that I needed them (should add that hubby was NOT an animal person before we met). My birthday was Sept 25th, so he calls me at work 30 minutes before I left and tells me I can bring home the "rats" as he was affectionately calling them until he met them lol. So hubby spent the night (he works graves so is up all night), researching about them on the internet, and decided that their cage was inadequate as it was too small, and had only a wire bottom it was one level and not very big at all, so he took me to get them supplies on/for my birthday, we got them a HUGE cage, it's taller than me! They got a new exercise wheel as they wore out the bearings on their old one from mileage, then a bin feeder, new hay rack, a bigger dust bath house, and a big huge ball for them to run around in. This was all stuff he learned! I'm so proud of him! We are both smitten, and he is saying that 'hey' our cage is big enough for a baby or we could even split it in half and they'd still have 3 different levels each...he really wants to see a baby chin. LOL One day I will own another hedgie as I miss owning them, hubby has already 'tentatively' okayed it.
I am also owned by 2 Chihuahuas, 1 Golden Retriever, 3 Cats, 1 RES Turtle, and 6 Lovebirds.
Heather, Salt & Pepper
