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OOPS AND UH-OH

I love facebook. You can just put your little bleep there for all of your friends to see. Then I forget to come over here and share our life with others who care enough to follow us. So, I guess it is time to share about oops and uh-oh. I am not sure if that is really their names, but who cares.


Maybe some will remember that back in April our three "boy" chinchillas managed to give us a baby chinchilla. Needless to say, we found out that "POPTART" was a girl. Thank You Jeremy. :o( So we read up and became really good "parents" to "SURPRISE". Since he was a boy, we charted everything and moved him away from his mama in the proper amount of time. It was all good.


Well, on LisaMarie's 11 birthday, I was passing by the chinchilla's cage and was shocked to see that "POPTART" now had three tails. Yes, you guessed it...we did not get "SURPRISE" out soon enough...so now we had two more babies. Thus the names of "OOPS" and "UH-OH". In a short amount of time we would discover that we really had three, but sadly one did not make it.


To be perfectly honest, I spent the day crying. We had been trying to find a home for the two chinchillas and now I had to find a home for a mama with two babies. Yep, crying was the order of the day. Somehow my cries were heard and we got the call for "SURPRISE" and he went to his new home. I felt a small weight lifted off of my shoulders. He went to a good home who really wanted a chinchilla. Now we had the bigger problem of mama and two babies...the only upside...they were all girls. :o)


Well, I got an email from a lady in Oregon. She actually wanted all three of the chins. WhooHoo. Then she backed out. BooHoo. I am tickled to say that Star bought them for Michael for his birthday. We spent the afternoon tearing down the cages and switching them around to better serve the needs of all the chinchillas.


I am tickled to report that we are now the proud owners of only two male chinchillas. They are such fun pets. I have to tell you, if you are thinking about this kind of pet for your family....go for it...but keep it girls only or boys only...they can reproduce faster than anything I have ever seen. IT was fast turning into a nightmare for us, but it had a very happy ending :o)

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Tammy said…
Glad to hear all turned out good! Love ya sissy...
10:00 PM
Merna Rice said…
Now that is funny. There is never a dull moment in your life. Always a lot of excitement.

Merna
5:41 PM
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