First time I've seen this....

Funny stuff...thanks!

I love that scene ...

SRSLY?

That is a serious oversight my friend, esp. for a silly person such as yourself.

When I was a kid a guy that worked part time for my Dad raised rabbits for meat and their pelts. Someone had told him he could make more money raising chinchillas for their fur so he had two of them. Unfortunately, chinchillas living in Florida do not produce a good pelt and they don't have enough meat on them to raise for meat.

So my Dad ended up getting the chinchillas from the man - I have no idea if Dad paid for them or the guy just gave them to Dad. At first we had them in a chicken wire cage in the Florida room. The little critters chewed through the wire, got loose in the house, at Mom's parlor palm and ran up and down the piano keys. It took a couple of days to capture them.

Then Dad built a bigger cage for outside with heavier wire. They chewed through the wooden frame, but never quite made it out of the cage. Dad wrapped the wooden frame with sheet aluminum - they chewed through that. Somewhere along the way the pair had a bebay - cute as all get out, but would bite the shit out of anyone who tried to handle it.

Dad had intended them as pets, since we'd had pet mice that were very tame and cuddly. The chinchillas never became pets. We kept them for a lot of years. Mom and Dad chinchilla finally died of old age and Baby lived about ten more years. I thought he (she?) died of loneliness. I think we gave them a better life than the rabbit raiser would have - in fact, I think he was just going to release them where they would have been prey to a lot of things. But maybe they would have added to Florida's invasive species list?

because he's the only one.