Larry the chinchilla, born Easter Sunday 2005 and hand raised, sadly passed over the rainbow bridge Dec. 14th. He died while we were on the way to the vet. He was fine earlier that morning and suddenly became lethargic. I know its is not uncommon for chins to show little or no symptoms of illness and to pass suddenly. So little is know in the veternary community about these guys as the have only been domesticated for a short time in the scheme of things. We will miss him terribly.
On a lighter note we are adopting 2 female chins soon. One is an adult hetro beige and the other is her child a silver mosaic. It seems like when we loose a chin we get, unexpectedly 2 more. I do not know If I have said before but this fall we adopted/rescued an adult male we named Budda (since he was so fat he is at a more healthy weight now) he had a huge fur bitting problem and was very stressed out in his previous home. He is fully fured now and has an excellent coat and should be a wonderful mate for the new beige female.