This conversation is great!
I wonder what the ratio of female to male chinchilla caregivers is?
When I bought my first chin, I went to the pet store to buy a hamster and they were all sold out. Someone had suggested a chinchilla to me before but I had never seen one. I ended up holding the little chinnie they had there and decided I wasn't leaving the store without him. The look on my boyfriend's face when I came home with a giant cage and $300 on the visa
... Since then - and that was 4 years ago - he still pulls the "It's your pet, you bought it without dicussing it with me first" thing. He loves Ninja now, but he loves all the fun things like giving him treats and scratching him. He refuses to clean out the litter pans - he seems to think they are so disgusting he acts like he's going to vomit when he's tried to clean them in the past. Makes me wonder how he will handle changing baby's diapers (if we were to have one in the future!
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The thing that really ticks me off is that Ninja seems to like him more than me lately! Ninja comes out of the cage for him way more, and he just associates my boyfriend with treats and cuddles! My boyfriend says things like "Don't let Mean Mom scare you" to coax him out of the cage. It's funny cause I'm the opposite from mean! LOL