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... A place with no cages, where all the chinchillas frolic happily on a superior replica of the Andes mountains. It's always pleasantly cool with a soft breeze that circulates the scent of delectables served at the Roadstop Raisin Lounges that dot the landscape: clear, cold water, a variety of fragrant hays, dried fruit, herbs and unsweetened Wheat 'N Bran mini Shredded Wheat biscuits , every tantalizing treat imaginable. And eat all you want, in Heaven you won't get the runs! Naturally, all the clouds are sprinkled with Blue Sparkle Dust for unlimited celestial dustbathing.

From the ChinCare website of course...

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For Those of You That Care

This web site might help -- Chincare discussing memorials for your pets.

You knew this

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Free Jeffrey Luers by David Rovics

I grew up in the land of houses in rows
I had asthma, that's how it goes
When you're in LA and there are cars everywhere
See the sky and smell the air
I left home, looked around
Trying to find some solid ground
I found life in the northern wood
And I knew that this was good
I saw the dozers, the death machines
Tearing apart everything green
I built a platform, sat in a tree
Said if you're taking her down, then you're taking down me
I saw the highways, I saw the mall
I saw the eagle, heard the clarion call
Voices of reason were talking to me
So I burned down a couple of SUV's
23 years, 23 years
Among the words and the deeds in the war for the west
A chapter was written and I was the test
To shut us all up and drive us apart
All who have life and love in our hearts
The judge did the math then he did some more
He was a man out to settle a score
An illegal sentence in a stolen land
With life or death in the palm of his hand
23 years, 23 years
And now here I am, so long behind bars
For trying to breath in a nation of cars
Sanity jailed and madness in power
Our time it is short and now is the hour
So may you hide in the darkness and stay safe in the night
Find whatever you need to stay in the fight
There's a planet at stake and that's all that I see
And my thoughts will be with you until I am free
23 years, 23 years

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Been busy...

With the farm and other stuff...sorry I haven't posted in a while. New Chinsurrections coming soon. Thanks to those who have left the supportive comments -- my friends, Collie, Faron, Hermes, and Swami Bhagavatam know that I'm pretty fanatical about animal rights and if people can see the idiocy of their ways through cartoons, so be it!

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Wear something other than a healthy animal

Anti-Fur Season Begins
Annual fall anti fur actions began in Toronto today with a small Boycott the Bay Demo at Queen and Yonge. The public was receptive to the action, though a few hostile people appeared.

Basic Facts On the Fur Industry
- About 1.1 million animals--raccoons, coyotes, bobcats, lynxes, foxes, beavers, otters, and others-are killed each year for their fur by trappers in Canada. Another 1.1 million animals are raised and killed in extremely cruel conditions on fur "farms."
- Trapping weakens wildlife populations by killing healthy animals.
- Canada's native people, as well as its wild animals, are victims of the fur industry.
- Every year, thousands of dogs, cats, raptors, and other so-called "trash" animals (including endangered species like the bald eagle) are crippled or killed by traps.

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The Great Deception

Chins were almost killed off by fur trappers in South America. Fortunately, they were brought back from the edge of extinction by laws in those countries that have tried to protect them. The Great Hoax, however, persists that MF Chapman single handedly saved the chinchilla by importing some into the US. Chapman was a tool of the FUR INDUSTRY!

See Chincare for the real scoop.

It's just incredible how badly people treat these poor animals. Everyone from rich little kids who have no clue how to care for their new living little fad pet, to the fur industry who put dead animal skins on the backs of rich movie stars and socialites, to all the pet shops who leave poor things to die in their back rooms, and now, the trappers are back in South America. Don't ask how I know, I just do.

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Could I scream or what?

Largest Animal Seizure in RSPCA Historyby Sherry Morse

England’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) has rescued 269 animals in what it described as the largest seizure in its 181 year history.

The animals, which included a rabbit, a chinchilla, seven cats, 16 parrots and 244 dogs, were removed from a three bedroom house in Carnforth, Lancashire in Northern England on September 10.

The animals were living everywhere in the house including the loft and the basement.

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It took 26 people two days to remove all the animals from the house, which one source described as being in an "absolutely, and utterly, disgusting" condition.
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The rescued birds included African grays, macaws, and Amazon parrots.

See the Buzzle editorial.
and Gray's are freakin' expensive, too...

Canned Hunts

People drive me insane sometimes....
In the last twenty years, the number of hunters in the United States has declined, but the amount of money hunters are spending has increased dramatically according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Fund for Animals. One result of these trends is the emergence of "canned hunts" in many states across America. The Fund for Animals estimates that since 1980 nearly 2000 hunting preserves have opened, with 500 in Texas alone. These hunts are conducted on private land stocked with exotic animals, such as zebras, antelope, rams, and even the occasional lion. Hunters pay thousands of dollars to spend a few days tracking and killing these animals, and most ranches guarantee hunters will not go home empty handed. To further favor hunters, most canned hunt ranches either fence animals into small areas or train animals to eat from the same spot each day, according to the Fund for Animals' report "Canned Hunts: Unfair at Any Price".

See http://www.acfnewsource.org/environment/canned_kill.html for the full deal

Raisin' Chinazona

OK, everybody...I'm a bonafide Chin farmer now. If you want the best in Chins, leave me a message and I'll get back to ya! WHAAAAAAHOOOOOOOO!

Everything you wanted to know about Chins...

Classification
Class: Mammals
Order: Rodents
Sub-order: Hystrichognathes (Wilson et Reeder) or Caviomorphes or Hystrichomorphes
Family: Chinchillidae
Gender: Chinchilla
Species: laniger x brevicauda
Common noun: chinchilla
There are two chinchilla species in the wild. Chinchilla laniger inhabits the Andes Mountains of Chile at elevations between 3000 and 4000 meters high. They are practically extinct but a colony has settled in Tajikistan. The other wild species Chinchilla brevicauda inhabits the limits Argentina- Chile-Peru.

Tajik Chins???? This I gotta see sometime!!!!

The commercialised and domesticated species corresponds to the crossbreeding of C. laniger X C. brevicauda.
Biotope: rocky slopes in the Andes Mountains, sparse and poor vegetation.
Historical account : bred in captivity since 1923 for its fur in the United States and then in Europe after the Second World War.

Breeds and varieties
Standard colour: grey with a lighter ventral colour
Mutations with most black: black velvet, charcoal, ebony
Mutations with most white: Wilson white (silver or mosaic) , starlit, albinos.
Mutations with most beige: brown tower, champagne, almond blossom, afro-violet, pastel, beige velvet.
Mutations with most blue: Sapphire, Sapphire velvet

Juridical status

The genus Chinchilla in the wild belongs to the annex I (A) in the Washington Convention.

C. laniger X C. brevicauda is considered as a domestic species since 1992 under the French Rules. Only the animals born in captivity from parents born in captivity as well can be sold.

Yeah, RIIIIIIIIGHTTTTT....

BIOLOGICAL PARTICULARITIES

Morphological And Anatomic Features
Adult body weight:
Male: 400-500 grams
Female: 450-600 grams (females are larger than males)
Body length: 25-30 cm
Tail length: 7-15 cm
Corporal surface: 550 to 700 cm2

Biologic data

Behaviour: crepuscular and nocturnal activity. Chinchillas can easily adapt to their owners' diurnal life. Excellent climber.
Life span: 10 years, sometimes up to 20 years.
Body temperature: 38-39 °C

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What's a Chin? Plu-eeeeeze people!

This is from Lyn Duedall's most excellent chin website at

"With so many chinchillas living in pet stores, zoos and people's homes, it seems somewhat ironic that people still ask what is it? One may describe this animal as looking similar to a chubby squirrel with big ears or having a rabbit's body with large mouse-like ears and a squirrel's tail. However, the fact remains that they are a rodent! (see photos)

Chinchilla means "little chinta" a name given by the Indian tribes in their area. The chinchilla is from South America, more specifically in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and Chile in the high altitudes of the Andes Mountains. Their scientific name is Chinchilla lanigera, which means long-tailed chinchilla. Their class is Mammalia (Mammals), their order Rodentia (Rodents), and their family is called the Chinchillidae (Chinchillas and Visachas). "

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Pet fad

Chinchilla have become the latest "fad pet" especially in Los Angeles. Please, please, people be careful with these innocent, dear things!

See the whole article below at Susan Daffron's Pet Tails

Fad Pets

by Susan Daffron

Times and styles change. But wanting to look cool or following the latest fashion is the wrong reason to get any kind of animal. Shelters still occasionally get calls from people who bought a pot bellied pig during the craze of the late 80s and early 90s. Their cute little piglet has now turned into a 100-150 pound pig and is acting like one as well. Most shelters (the Panhandle Animal Shelter included) won't take exotic animals, so at that point many people find their own less humane ways of "getting rid" of the problem.

These pet fads aren't limited to types of animals, such as iguanas and pot bellied pigs either. Certain breeds of companion animals come into and go out of style as well. After Disney released 101 Dalmatians, shelters were inundated with lots of cute spotted dogs...

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