Cheeky Chinchillas - True Stories About Chinchillas

Well I had a crazy dream of getting a pet hedgehog. Of course my mother did not want that. But she said if I saved up the money I could get one. I did too! Neither one of us could beleif it! But when I was set on getting a hedgehog my parents were set on convincing me other wise. Joking around I said "Oh so I could get a chinchilla instead!" I didn't know what it was even. We went to the pet shop and I fell in love with them! Imagine getting the exact oppisite of what you wanted! But liking it so much better!!!

One night my chinnie Peanut and his brother Lucky played a little game. Peanut ran and walked over my mom's face! She doesn't mind usually but Lucky did the same. For a whole hour every time they passed they would walk across her face. She moved but they still did it! Then my mom said "Whoever does that again is going back to the store!" (she was kidding of course) Then Peanut ran and did it again! They knew what they were doing. It was a game to them!!!

Another 'Peanut' story

One day Peanut (my chinchilla) was out, so I made a cave by simply putting a blanket over myself and holding it up.
Then I got Peanut under it and he just sat there against my side. Moments later he walked away.
I got up and my shirt which had been hanging away from my body fell back against me.
It was soaking wet all over with Peanut Pee. It stuck to me too! (Ewwww) I washed up and came back.
We put him in his cage but I wasn't angry at him. (How could I be angry at that little face?????)

One night Peanut was running in my room and he disapeared. The door was closed too! Me and my family checked all his usual hide-outs but he was not to be found. By then I was getting kinda paniky wonderering where the little critter could be. Just when I thought he would never be found we lifted up the blanket that was hanging over the bed sure enough there he was! He knew we were looking for him, he had this little haha look on his face. And I knew and so did he that he was an awesome hide and seeker!!!!

Once my chinchilla Oreo was in this "cage" my sister made for him out of paper and he made a thin hole and snuck out. We were sooo scared and we thought the impossible horror, he was in the furness room.

We were right but guess how we got him out! Our cat, Geniveve was meowing her head of right by the furness and I looked under it and there was Oreo, safe because 1.The furness was of. and 2.Our cat told us where he was. Then we cleaned him of and got him some food and a cherrio(he does not like raisins) and put him in his cage. The End

One day, me and my cousin went to the pet store to get me and my brothers' chinnies (Hopper and Trooper) some food.
My cousin and I were looking at the hamsters. My cousin said to me, "I think I should ask my mom and dad if I can get a hamster."
I agreed. A couple days later, she got a little hamster named Digger (He is such a doll face!) we let Trooper and Digger play together first,
but Trooper was a little too rough; But Hopper ran away from tiny Digger! It looked SO funny! We love you Digger! :)

I have something I want to share about my chinchilla, Gizmo. (his nickname is Izmelda hahaha)
Anyway, before Gizmo moved in with my mom and me, he lived with my sister for a while. My sister lived in an apartment. Gizmo had his cage in her room. Sometimes she used to let him out because her apartment was small. So she closed all her doors except for her room door, and she put up a big cardboard wall to the kitchen (so he doesnt crawl under the oven and fridge). He would run around in the dining room, living room, and her bedroom. At the time she didn't have much in her apartment and her couches touched the floor. She only had a TV in her living room and she always remembered to put the wires up. Gizmo was always energetic when he was young.

One time she let him out and he was racing back and forth from her room and into the living room. I started watching him from her room and he ran into her room and turned around to run back out. He ran out but he turned to late and he ended up doing the matrix on the wall and into the living room! It was really funny. He was running on the wall 1 ft high!! It was awesome! P.S. I LOVE MY CHINCHILLAS!! GIZMO, FATTY, AND OBBI (MY NEWEST CHINNY!!)

One day I let him play in the bathroom alone because I didnt think it would hurt, he was in there for about 20 mins and he had never tried to get at the vent before, but when I went to get him and take him to his cage the vent cover was off and he was gone.

So I ran down stairs and could hear him running around, I got my mom and we were worried because the furnace was going to kick in. My dog was at the top of the stairs and she'd come cry at the door then run away, she did this about 4 times before my mom went to see what she was doing. When she did she noticed Precious (the dog) was crying at this one vent and when she lifted the cover off she could see James just laying there so she called me and luckily I grabbed him just in time. I bet 5 more minutes in there and he would have been dead, so its a good thing for my dog because I never would have found him in time, but he knew where the opening was so I'm glad he was smart enough to run there.

We have a lovely Chin called Chilli Stitch, he has a great personality and is mad on raisins. When Stitch wants a Bath he goes to the top level of his house and stands on his hind legs, he then puts his front paws on top of the cage where his bath is kept.We think he is the best Chin in the world. We love your website, especially the Cheeky Chinchillas who play the musical instruments.

Love from Jared, Joel, Nathaniel & Reuben

One morning when my dad got up he went to see the chinchillas. But only George was there! Bary had gone missing. My dad searched for him for hours then he saw Bary's fluff in the pool table. My dad couldn't hear anything so him and a friend took it apart. But he wasn't in it. My dad went to the bathroom and moved the washing basket and there he was. He must have been moving around because he wasn.t there before.
It turns out the lock on the cage was loose and he used his teeth to take it off.

Never underestimate the intelligence of your chinnie.
A reminder to us all to make sure our cages are closed properly

This past year, I got a chinchilla in May named Hopper. When Hopper was about six months old,
my brother wanted a little chinchilla too. We asked my mom and dad for the longest time but they thought one was enough.
A few days befor Christmas, I asked my mom if my dad and her were getting a chin for my brother, but she said no.
But on Chistmas day, we found a baby chinchilla in a carrying case under the tree! My brother and I were breathless!
We took him out immediately and he let us, so we named him Trooper for being one.
Him and Hopper are our babys! Hopper has his own story too!

I have a chinchilla called Charlie. I have not trained him anything yet, because I am not sure what to do to teach him,
but when I get him out in the hall he always runs round like a cheeter. Once he ran up the stairs and got in my room, it was so funny

Hi! I'm Jynx the chin! Mother of one.
Hi! I'm Toast the chin! I'm the daughter of Jynx.
This is Jynx here. I am a pretty mosaic and I am 4 years old. I have been owned by Julia since June and I am rather used to her.
I always run around on her piano (and jump of the edge so she can't catch me, hee hee) :)
Julia would love to have her story on the story page and so would we, we'd be famous!!
Step aside, Robbie Williams! There's a new chin in town!
Okay, I know he's not a chin (hee hee, Toast just said, "Isn't he??") but still... Oh, Toast (she wants a go)

Hiya! I really thought that Robbie was a chin! Didn't you? Oh... you didn't.
Anyway, I'm a mosaic too and I'm the cutest, prettiest, most intelligent chin in the universe!
Okay, probably not but I think that I am. ( Oh, Jynx is being nasty again. She said that I'm a boaster!)
Also, Julia really likes The Music. (So do I) And she reads while she's listening to it! ( I don't know how she does it though)
Ooh, I think the treat tin is coming! Better go! :o :) Hey, these chins look like me and Jynx! Cool!!!!!!

My chinchilla's name is Lacy. She is cute, smart and her favorite guy is Hopper Blanchard, she loves people.
She has a cute little birth mark behind her ear. She has a good story too.
I was in my backyard and someone said does she ever jump out of your hands?? and at that instant,
she jumped out of my hands and ran under a thorn tree. I couldn.t get her back, then finally,
my sister came out and said 'Lacy' and bribed her with food. I am so happy

One day when we let our chins Wallace and Gromit out for a run in the front room,
we ended up loosing them. We started hearing nibbling noises, we found them behind
my snooker table and guess what, they had chewed off the bottom of my snooker table leg.
I was so mad at them. But because they where so cute, I said, 'Oh well it dosent matter'.

My chinchilla Hopper
He doesn't need special care like hurt chinchillas, but he has a special story how I got him.
One day I asked my mom for a turtle for my birthday, but my dad didn't want another pet after my cat died but I still wanted a turtle.
One day after lacross practice, I got home and put my p.j.s on.
I walked in the living room and there was a cage in the middle of the room with my family taking pics of the look on my face.
My mom, dad, my big bro Alec, my gramma, my papa and nana and my little cus Miranda. I ran straight to my new chinchilla.
I looked at him and he was hopping around the cage like CRAZY! So I named him Hopper. He wasnt used to me yet but after
like a week, he got used to me, he is my wittle whoppa

One day, I invited two of my friends to a sleepover and dicided to go bowling. Before I left, I hurried up and said goodbye to my chinchillas. I picked up Trooper and said goodbye then I said goodbye to Hopper.

When I got home three hours later, I ran straight to the chinchilla cage and said hello to the chinnies. I picked up Trooper first and gave him a big kiss and a hug then I whent to pick up Hopper, but he wasn't inside. The cage door was closed and I thought, " This is a little bit freaky." So me, my mom and my friends looked around for like ten min. and my mom said, "The door to the other end is closed but we better check down there just in case." So we looked and looked but there was no chinnie! So I thought to myself, " Is he ok? Did someone break in and steal him? Is he dead somewhere?" then It came to me that he might be in his FAVORITE hiding spot, under the couch.

I looked, but there was still no Hopper. We looked around for another ten min. then my ! mom found him under the couch and that took us ANOTHER ten min. to get him out. How did Hopper get out? Good question. Apparently, when I said goodbye to the chinnies I remembered that when I said goodbye to Trooper I left the cage door open then I used the bathroom, so Hopper jumped out, and I noticed the cage door was open so I shut it on poor little Hopper (cry cry cry). I love that little fella! He has been through alot of trouble though!

One day, me and Hopper (my chinchilla) were outside to greet someone.
Then they asked, "Doesn't he ever jump out of your hands?".

Just then Hopper got spooked and jumped out of my hands and landed on his side and on the rock driveway.
But that didn't stop him! So he ran under the car (as you may guess I was screeming Hoppers name loudly).
He ran from under the car and into the thorn bushes.

Hopper just sat there not even buging. My brother threw a raisin at him but he didn't eat it.
So, I called Hoppers name and he came to me! I like to call this story "Hoppers great escape"

One day I was playing with my chinchilla (her name is chilly) in the bathroom.
She crawled into a crack about 2 inches wide. We waited all day and all night,
then finally we had to use power tools to get her out. I'm so glad I got my chilly back.
PS:CHINCHILLAS ROCK!!!!!!!!

Me & my family bought two male chinchillas who we called Wallace and Gromit.
One day we heard some squeaking coming from the cage, it turned out Wallace
was actually a girl and they'd had two babies! We then called them Lilo & Stitch

One day I went to my friends' to visit my chinchillas Wallace and Gromit. (We had to sell them, so she bought them so that I could still visit them) We decided to let them have a run about, then when it was time to bring them back in we couldn't find Gromit anywhere! We looked high and low and we were both getting worried, in the end I had to go home so I took my backpack and went home.

Then when I opened up my bag at home I was greeted with Gromit jumping out at me, it was a big surprise I must say! We returned him to my friends and I then had to wash my bag as their was loads of chinchilla 'poo' everywhere.

Then I had an even bigger surprise, it turned out whilst Gromit had been in there he had chewed half my homework up! So when I told my teacher about it, it was no surprise he laughed along with the rest of the class aswell. I turned bright red, but when i visited my cute chinchillas again I forgot all about it... Note: Anyone who has a chinchilla, please check your bag if you lose them... you never know!

Once upon a time I was in halloween with a friend that has a chinchilla called Diglet.
We were preparing for the halloween party, I was a zombie and my friend was a witch.
He couldnt find his hat, we start looking and we found Diglet with the hat on his head (not really) that was very funny

I got my chinchillas on the last day of May. They were three months old when I got them.
One day I let them run about in my room.
Suddenly my dad came in and told me we had to go out to dinner. I rushed frantically trying to get them.
In the end it took me 20 mins to get them out from under the bed. lol

About two weeks ago one of my friends knocked at the front door when I was playing with my two chins. I quickly put them back in the cage, not knowing that I didn't put the top down properly!

When I came back I heard a scuffling noise in the corner of my room. I screamed for my mum and when she came up she had discovered it was Gizmo!(my chin).

It took me another two hours to capture him as once he's out he does'nt like to come back! When I finally did get him back, he was very happy to see his fiancee Sottie!

I was very convinced and set on getting a gerbil. We had already bought the stuff and were getting him that day after my mom got her nails done.

While she was there she met a woman who she told of my quest for my gerbil. When the woman heard this she said that gerbils are very mean and they get away very easily because they are so small. Then she showed her a picture of her new pet, a chinchilla. She loved the chinchila so much that she went back to the breeder and bought another.

So my mother came back and showed me what it was and I looked up pictured online and instintly fell in love with them. So I went to the same breeder the woman had and bought the last chinchilla she had for sale. I was very happy and I have had him for 1/2 a year now and may even be interested in another

I have a female Chinchilla called Cheena. She was given to me by a friend as she couldn't care for her any longer and wanted her to have a good home. I'd never heard of a Chinchilla before this and had no clue how to take care of her. What I thought was really funny was how she took her bath in dirt...and boy does she flop around like a crazy person. Cheena and my Macaw T.K. are the best of friends. I always come home to find T.K. on the top of the cage talking to her or singing songs to her. It is very wierd but pretty cool. My two exotic girls...a macaw and a chinchilla

Baby Karch is a 2 year old male who is very loyal to his friends. His friends are a mini doxie and a guinea pig named Pigsley. We had got a second pig to be friends with Pigsley, but after a few weeks when they were introduced the new pig attacked Pigsley. Karch had seen all this from his cage, he went ballistic and started screaming.

The pigs were seperated,and when play time came Karch hopped into pigsley cage and just sat with him. They play all the time, and it was the sweetest thing to see. Till this day when Karch sees the other pig he screams at him and charges him. He only plays with Pigsley and the doxie. Chins are just small grey elephants!

I have 2 (standard grey) chinchillas, a boy and a girl. They are extremely entertaining and love coming out for their daily 'run around'. When they want to come out they both stand on their back legs and bite the cage (to get my attention).

They do LOTS of funny, cute and mischevious things (I cant write them all, lol). I have made my chins 'pouches'/'sleeping sacks' they like to go inside them and snuggle up, I sometimes carry them around in them. When I have my chinchillas out (I ALWAYS sit and stay with them,) they hop around, sniff and investigate the toys and things that I put out for them to play with, then they start playing.

They jump up onto me even up to my head, Boo Boo (the boy) chases Bee Bee around, Bee Bee won't chase Boo Boo but when frightened by a noise or something she will run to him and hide behind him, she will then follow him until she feels safe. They will have a run around and then stop for a 'kiss'(they nibble each others noses)then they go of to play again. I give them raisins (not alot and not often)just as a treat. They LOVE them (what chin doesn't?) but they always want more more more and will stand on their shelf and squeeze their noses through the cage and put their paws through for another raisin. (I dont give in to them though, as to many raisins are not good for them)

There is LOADS more I could say about my chinchillas but I wont, lol :-) I hope all you chin owners 'out there' find your chin or chins as fun to watch and as fun to be with as I do with my 2. xxxx

One day when I was watching the t.v in the kitchen. I let my year old chin Maxi run around. Suddenly, I heard a noise and saw that Maxi had jumped into the bin. I ran over to the bin, took the lid off and Maxi was on his hind legs looking confused. It was really funny

We thought it was time we bought our daughter a pet, so after a long hard look we found these really cute chins.

So we bought them home read up on what they were like and read that they needed to get out alot, so every evening when we go to bed we let them run around the front room (making sure of not escape routes).

But, one morning when I got up to put them back in their cage for the day, I found one but could not find the other. There was no way in or out of our front room, after about 20 minutes of searching we thought he had got away, but then we saw him but still could not work out where he had hidden. The following morning we were in the same dilema but eventually found his hiding place, he had gnawed away at the back of the desk draw and took up camp here...
I certainly learnt my lesson on this one.

My chinchilla might be a year old by now. She's called Pepper and is real cute. Her nose is quite funny as it's a bit squashed. She likes to sleep in the day and only wakes up to food noises. In the evening she comes out and runs around and chirups. She likes to destroy all the cool toys me and my mum buy her. She's eaten 3 ladders so far.

I had my 4 month old chinchilla, Cloud, out in the bathroom (making sure the toilet seat was down) He was jumping around when he came across the toilet roll. Suddenly he grabbed a piece and went hopping around with it!

When I tried to get it off him he sprang on to the top of the toilet, then jumped down, landing on the handle, so he was flushing it on her way. In the end I got it back, but I had to creep up on him when he wasn't looking.

I had a one year old male chin who had always lived alone and we wanted to introduce him a partner. Our dilema was if it could be possible to introduce him another male, because we didn’t wanted to have babies and we were afraid of having him neutered.

We looked for a vet who had experience with chins and we asked her for advice. She told us that the most important thing was the character of the chins not the sex. Then we decided to try it with a baby male chin.
It took us almost two months to join them, but finally we were succesful. Now they are happy living together as a couple.

We have a friend who passed through the same experience but with a female, and she followed the same process as we did and she had also been succesful, she has two females living together.

One time I had my chinchilla (Chiku) and her babies (Jitters, Spunky, and Squirrel) out in the living room playing. I always build a wall and stuff every crack and hole that they could possibly get through with blankets.

After everything was set up I let them all loose and immediately they all went flying! I got out my camera to take some pictures and both Squirrel and Spunky came running up my arms and legs and sitting on me waiting to get there picture taken. Spunky also went up my shirt and began exploring (it tickled)! I took several pictures of the babies and there mom. When I took a picture of Chiku she flew over the couch over the wall and I had to get her carrier and sneek up on the little fur ball.

When that was all over my cat Baghera (he loves fuzzie critters! He suprisingly never hurts even mice. He just cuddles and cleans them.) tried to cuddle up next to Chiku and almost got sprayed! It was an exhausting experience!

My pet chinchilla Tigger, is very loved but I'm sorry 2 say that that wasn't the case a year ago before we got him. The owner of the pet store we bought him from, told us his story. She said that one day a woman came in and bought him when he was 2 mounths old. The woman took him home and her son was allergic to him, so a week later she brought him back to the pet store to return him. She had not fed him or given him any water in a week he had lost alot of weight and was barely alive. So the pet store wouldn't sell him for a mounth, then I bought him. He is a year and 3 mounths old now and is very calm and loving - he is a standard grey.

One time I had my chinchilla , Bessie, out and my younger cousin stood up to look in her cage. I told him to sit down at once, but it was too late, Bessie ran underneath him and then he sat down on her. She cut he lip with her tooth, and it was bleeding loads. I ruined my best white shirt because of all the blood, but I didn't care. We called up the emergency vet for some advice and then the next day we took her to the vet. She needed some antibiotics, but she made a full recovery. So, I hope readers will learn from this story!

Thank you, Emma and Bessie xxx

I had just purchased an adorable little female grey chinchilla. I named her Jasmine and placed her in the same cage as my castrated male, Baby. The other day I was making a tutting sound at her to make her come over to me for a raisin, but she became quite defensive and decided that she was going to projectile pee all over my face and in my mouth!. After I had ran to the bathroom to wash my face I returned to her calling her a "little devil" and saying that I would not give her any raisins for a whole week, when she decided that once wasn't enough and did it again.This time my mouth was closed, but I still had to wash my face, again! From now on I never bow down to her level, just in case she gets the urge to splurge!!!!!

I have four of the most adorable Chins; Mum n Dad, a year old son & another baby boy who was born nearly three weeks early. He is very special, as in the beginning I didn't think he would make it, but he was a determined little scrap. He was sooo tiny & frail, I had to feed him every two hours, day & night for three weeks - a Mum again at 48! Hard work but worth every moment spent. Mummy Chin just never had any milk but was more than happy to take on the washing & keeping him warm. Dad too - they are very proud parents. I called the prem baby Tinker ( because he was a right one!)

A breeder in the UK gave me a milk recipe: 1oz of Evaporated Milk, 1½ oz water from tap, 2 drops of Multi Vitamin & ¼ level tsp glucose or few drops honey. Mix & warm to just above blood heat (do the baby milk wrist test)

He took approx 3mls a day at first from an eye dropper, then soon took a lot more! I was told that at 3 weeks old my little prem baby should weigh about 40 - 50 grams, he weighed a whopping 60! So, I knew then that we were doing it right! He was later weaning at about 9 weeks.The best thing is, because he has had so much one to one attention, he is very, very tame. He only has to hear my voice & he is climbing up the cage begging to be taken out. Has anyone else had a similar experience? I was told by the breeder not to be too hopeful & prem chins don't normally survive, is this the case?

I keep my two cheeky chins (Spider and Hercules) in my bedroom and I let them out to play for a good couple of hours per night, apart from the usually stripping of wallpaper and running round like total nutters, they like to collect things: hair scrunchies (mine) are a favourite, but tissues, pens, paper, socks and the odd pair of underpants (robbed from the draw) are normally found hidden in corners.

I have managed to train them to go back in the cage (most evenings) by saying bed time, but one of them uses this as a game to race around the room like a mad thing.

It still suprises me of the places they can get in to and under when the mood takes them, but I wouldn't be without them, they are so cute and adorable (except when eating my clothes whilst I am wearing them!).

My chinchilla's name is Sabrina. She is 4 months old. She can jump and hop really high and fast. She likes to bite things. When she takes a bath, she stays in there as long as a real human being does. My Dad calls her a squirbet, [which means half squirrel,half rabbit.] When I hold her on my head it feels like she's eating my hair . She can also talk. If you rub her in a certain spot, she makes a funny sound!

I have 2 chins. They are named Trinity and Neo from the matrix. Trinity is about to have babies (in less then 2 weeks). I’m very glad. It will be her first litter. They are standard grey. They love to jump on top of me and sit on my head and shoulders and then watch TV. One time I was holding him and then I watched TV. He jumped on the TV, then jumped back down on me. They kiss my dog Bear all the time.

I am at my auntie's house, she has a chinchilla called Baby. Baby is energetic, playful and fun to have lots of fun with. One time me and my friend were sitting on the floor and baby was out. She loves climbing and running around, any way, we were sitting on the floor and she came and sat and lay down on my face because she was so tired that she fell asleep on my face. Also there was one time when we were sitting with wooden tubes between our legs, she ran up them, then ran up our body on to the couch. Can I tell you somthing, baby is very unusuall because she sits on the couch next to us and waches t.v. How strange is that! Somtimes if there's music on the t.v she bounces up and down. Thank you from keri

As the weather has been so lovely this weekend I put my chins out in the garden in one of their cages. They love this !! They can bounce around to their hearts contents, sniff the wind and steal bits of grass. The best bit is when I get them in in the evening, they are so whacked that they can't even squeak.Ah, lovely! A peaceful evening uninterrupted by the chins singing along ....bless !

Our chins are housed in two massive detachable cages in the sitting room. My husband's latest success with the chins is to get them to respond to him when they are going into the garden. As we have to uncouple one cage from the rest he simply shouts GARDEN opens the patio doors and like magic they all jump into the one cage ready to be transported. More intelligent animals, it would be hard to find.

JACKIE AND THE GANG PLUS GINGER