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Ever since I was a teenager I have admired the adorable little rodent called a chinchilla. I would see them in pet stores and wish I could take one home. I was lucky enough to have my last boyfriend give me my first chinchilla in 1999. It was a heterozygous beige pink white male named Roosevelt. After a couple of years of falling in love with his personality and antics, I decided that I'd like to breed chinchillas as well as my rabbits. It took me a few years, but I finally purchased a mate for him in October of 2004. I chose a beautiful heterozygous beige female so I could get some babies the same color as my precious Roosevelt. I drove about 5 hours round trip to pick her up in Northern Ohio. In June 2005 I opened the gate between the double cage I made for Butternut and Roosevelt and they lived happily together. Roosevelt died unexpectedly on July 16, 2007 at the age of 11 1/2. He got some bad dental problems and had a badly infected abcess on his tooth that caused some other problems. Sadly, Butternut never had any babies after close to 2 years of living with Roosevelt. Even though they never had babies I'm so glad to have bought Butternut and to have given Roosevelt a friend. He loved her dearly! Butternut loved him, too and has been very depressed ever since he died. She lost around 100 grams in about 3 weeks. She's starting to gain some weight back and I'm hoping her new friend will help to cheer her up. I brought home her future mate, Acorn, on August 17, 2007. With any luck there will be babies sometime in 2008!

Seward's Acorn

Tan
born May 20, 2007
sire: Seward's Buttons
dam: Seward's Mashee

Seward's Butternut

Heterozygous Beige
born August 19, 2004
sire: Seward's Razzel
dam: Seward's Wiggles

Roosevelt

Heterozygous Beige Pink White
born President's Day 1996
died July 16, 2007
sire: Knucklehead
dam: Baby Nimbits


Look at the happy couple!
Butternut & Roosevelt

Here is a picture of the double cage I made for Roosevelt and Butternut. It has 2 floors with the exercise wheel on the 2nd floor, a sleeping house and food/treat dishes on the 1st floor, and leaping ledges on the side to get from the 1st floor to the 2nd as well as serving as a place to perch up high, which chinchillas love to do. Each side of the cage is 18" wide X 24" deep X 28" high. I will sell individual and possibly double cages this size in the future if raising chinchillas works out. E-mail me if you are interested.

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