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Pets and cuteness.
Boro_Bandito:
It sorta makes you wonder how the hell those things ever survived in the wild, or where in the hell they come from for that matter. Great, now I have to research it.
Edit: Right then, let's get started with the basic wikipedia article found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchilla.
Notable parts of the Wiki entry include:
"Chinchillas are rabbit-sized, crepuscular rodents native to the Andes mountains in South America. Along with their relatives, viscachas, they belong to the family Chinchillidae."
"The animal (whose name literally means "little Chincha") is named after the Chincha people of the Andes, who wore its soft and dense fur. By the end of the 19th century, chinchillas had become quite rare due to hunting for their fur."
"Mathias F. Chapman, a mining engineer from California, was working in Chile in 1918 when he purchased a chinchilla as a pet and took a liking to it. He envisioned raising a whole herd of chinchillas and he applied to the Chilean government for permission to capture and transport several animals to the US."
"Chinchillas make many noises, including barks, chirps, and squeaks."
--- Quote ---including barks, chirps, and squeaks
--- End quote ---
Yes. That is a chinchilla, holding a sticker that he has just removed from the squash beside him.
Caiphana:
TINY FEET!
For the record, I've spent several nighttime hours (they are nocturnal, which is GREAT for people who work all day, but don't want to depress an animal by leaving it alone for eight to ten hours a day) with Charlie, and he didn't make one sound... except when I almost stepped on him.
Eris:
Meet Socks (AKA "Snot". As in "He's snot a real dog.")
Sure, he looks alright there, but he normally looks more like so:
eeeeeeeevil. I do not like him.
leave for no raisin:
Here is my puppy Shinji. He was about 3 months old here, but he's 10 months now and MUCH bigger.
This is my cat, Miles. He looks like a snake eating an egg in the first picture.
Gemmwah:
thread totally reopened for kitty time.
I'm affectionately calling him Fidel Catstro, Shrodinger, and Cody, but he hasn't been named yet because my sister can't decide.
I'll probably just keep calling him Fidel anyway.
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