1.) When you spend hundreds of dollars on your one chinchilla, way more you'll ever spend on your dog.
2.) When you constantly obsess over the temperature and making sure the air conditioner is on along with icecubs and frozen bottles
3.) When you have a chinchilla head cushion for your car and a chinchilla decal and a chinchilla shrine in your room and a chinchilla iphone holder, and a keychain.
4.) When you would do anything for you chinchilla including making 2 stops at Safeway just for infant gas drops and raisins to help with constipation/bloating.
5.) When you would rush him to the vet in the middle of the day making your mom go calling 11-25 vets
6.) When you would take him on the plane with you over 6 times because you can't ever leave him behind
7.) When you constantly worry while you're gone and obsess over him
8.) When you buy organic wood, herbs, cookies, treats, food, and hay for your chinchilla every month
9.) When you have chinchilla chew marks all over the house during the times he has escaped
10.) When you are so good with him, you can catch him in a heartbeat while no one including the vet can
11.) When you research like forever about chinchilla related things making sure everything is safe double checking with multiple chinchilla websites
12.) When you have all the chinchilla top shopping sites memorized/bookmarked
13.) When you are a member of the chins-n-hedgies forum and a member of the "Ferret Nation club" which you saw and bought after seeing the thread
14.) When your vet praises you for knowing so much about the medicine
15.) When half the laundry room is used for chinchilla supplies
16.) When there's poop and hay everywhere found, and you use the small vacuum that's convenient and clog it all up constantly because of wood pieces
17.) When your dog knows your chinchilla is spoiled rotten and special so doesn't bother attacking
18.) When your dog submits to your king chinchilla and he's dominant over her
19.) When you have a Got chinchilla? Decal for your car
20.) When you have tons of pictures of him, and celebrate his birthday and Christmas first
21.) When you had him for 8 years and he recognizes your voice and knows the phrases, "Dust Bath" which he comes running/jumping and "treats'
22.) When you have a bond like no other with him, and he doesn't bite me hard ever hardly and it never hurts, he is so gentle and loves me too
23.) When you obsess and get mad if anyone sprays anything harmful near him even if theres ants in the laundry room you simply will never let anything be sprayed including febreeze
24.) When after having a chinchilla, you have this special bond and love for all rodents and every rodent reminds you of your chinchilla even a squirrel reminding yourself they're part of the rodent family
25.) When you worry constantly while on vacation and write a page of specific directions on feeding him and print it twice and tape it in two different locations just in case the petsitter forgets. You call constantly to make sure he's well, and don't like going on long vacations all because of leaving your chinchilla behind.
