08-20-2003, 04:55 PM | #1 (permalink) |
Liquid Diamonds
Location: Lexington, KY
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Name my pet chinchilla!
A couple days ago, I adopted a male chinchilla from my local Humane Society and he is a real sweetie! He looks very similar to this guy, but his ears are spotted.
I have been calling him Chico ("little boy") but I'm not sure this will be his permanent name. Throw out some suggestions for a cool name. My boyfriend suggested "Quaigon Chin" or "Double Chin." Funny, but not quite there yet...
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08-20-2003, 05:29 PM | #6 (permalink) |
lonely rolling star
Location: Seattle.
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How about Hornsby?
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08-20-2003, 05:47 PM | #9 (permalink) |
Please touch this.
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Cheeks!
Fester! Taffy! Coco!
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08-20-2003, 05:58 PM | #10 (permalink) |
Turn off your TV.
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Don't let those beady eyes fool you. They are pure cute furballs of evil. Poor creatures are slaughtered in chinchilla farms for their fur, but the important thing to keep in mind is that they are PURE EVIL. That is all.
(EVIL.)
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08-20-2003, 06:14 PM | #14 (permalink) | |
Liquid Diamonds
Location: Lexington, KY
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The people who make and wear coats made of chinchilla fur are evil!!! It takes over 100 chinchillas to make one fur coat. Depending on the color of the fur, different chinchillas cost much more than others. The standard grey chinchilla with a white belly costs around $70 from a breeder (more from a pet store, at least $100). Beige, tan, ebony, and violet chinchillas cost around $200 because they are more rare. I only paid $45 for mine, as he was a rescue animal. They can live to be 15-20 years old, so adopting a chinchilla is a long-term commitment. BTW, I kinda like the name Gus.
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08-20-2003, 06:19 PM | #15 (permalink) |
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Maybe you should live with it for a few days and see what its personality is before you pick a name. That said, I've always been partial to Bitey, but here are some others:
Peachy (to stick with the fruit theme ) Chuey (chew-ey, get it?) Pookie Trillian Arthur Nermal
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08-20-2003, 06:28 PM | #17 (permalink) |
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Yeah, I was joking. They're illegally poached in the Andes and all they take is one square inch of the fur behind their neck. It takes several hundred for just a waist length coat. I forget the numbers of a full length one. I use to work with some at the city zoo and they're so adorable (but EVIL). For some reason one of the chinchillas would purposely jump into a bucket of water so it could enjoy being pampered with a hair dryer. I guess dust doesn't cut it for the little critter.
(EVIL.) Anyway, I thought Ash would be fitting since in the wild they like to take dust baths in volcanic ash or something like that, and it kind of has the same color tone.
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08-20-2003, 08:07 PM | #23 (permalink) |
lonely rolling star
Location: Seattle.
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_Wesley_
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08-20-2003, 09:47 PM | #27 (permalink) |
2+2=5? Not again!
Location: Dallas, Texas
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I like Chico: a nice pair of puns.
I love Lurkette's Chuey, especially if it is short for Chubacca. Can't you just see him giving out a Chubacca roar? Gandalf the Grey? Panthro? (Grey mechanic on the Thundercats; used nunchucks) Pinkey? (ala Pinky and the Brain) |
08-20-2003, 10:10 PM | #28 (permalink) |
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I take care of about 30 chinchillas for some coworkers when they are away. They bounce around their cages all Matrix like then they stare at me. Strange.
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08-21-2003, 05:38 AM | #31 (permalink) |
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Location: The Sunny South - ATL!
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How about:
Chuckie (Chuck).....The Chinchilla Charlie...................." " Stinky Peta .......or my personal favorite.........Chumba Wumba maybe Double.......chinchilla - sorry, that's just a bad pun.
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08-21-2003, 09:46 AM | #39 (permalink) |
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Location: Northern California
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Since Killer is out (I already have a cockatiel with that name and she's a sweetie), how about Fuzzy?
If that won't work, there's always Merriadoc (Merry) or Peregrin (Pippen). I always did like little thing with furry feet!
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08-21-2003, 09:59 AM | #40 (permalink) |
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name him
"Holy Crap What The Hell ARE You? You Look Like a Rat Mixed Rabbit. I Mean You're Cute And All, But WTF Are You? HUH?' that is kind of a long name. 'HCWTHAREYLLARMRIMYCAABWTFAYHUH' there. i shortened it. i still like chico too oh and i agree with myself and lurky. Z is a cool name! |
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