I myself have a chinchilla name Ricky, and this is why I made this web site up. Ricky was born in december 98,I got him march 99 at a Superpet pet store. I knew nothing of the existence of this little creature until I saw one on t.v. This site is broken down into five main pages and then into sub pages. You will find a menu bar at the top of each page which allows you to surf this site freely and as quickly as possible.
Chinchillas live high up in the Andes Mountains in South America by Chile.
They are use to living in high dry cool areas with lots of height change and lots of rocks to climb on. In the wild chinchillas rarely ever see water, they get the water that they need in fruits and from cactus. In the early part of the 19th century chinchillas were hunted and trapped for their fur and almost became extinct, in the result of this they are now protected by law and can never be hunted again. But a little later in the 19th century a man named Chapman was in the mountains and a indian gave him a chinchilla as a present, which he named Pete which was the first pet chinchilla by a white man. Chapman was soon granted a chance to trap live chinchillas to start the first chinchilla ranch in America.