Cute Chins with cute YB!

Remember I said I'd take more pictures of my "real" kids and post?
I am sorry it took me so long - laziness is in my blood, and Wybe's.
So pictures are gonna rot in his memory card for a REALLY long time.

Fortunately, I dug out a few, one fine day, when I was feeling hyperactive.


Cute lil Pepper!

Hello my name is Pepper, but my new mommy likes to call me Chinchin (and mhy wifey Chinnie) - such unoriginal and act-cute names *cringe*.
I am super cute - especially compared to the other 2 ratty looking ones that tried to masquerading as me and my wife Plum. Don't you just love my innocent face and bright eyes and big ears and long whiskers and...
Anyway, I am male and I am 5 years old - that's something like middle age for Chins. But I am still very fit and active! I can run about all day if you let me out of my cage!
My wife Plum is 8 years old already. That is considered quite old among Singaporean Chins. We chins are supposed to live to 15-20 years of age. But somehow in steamy hot Singapore our life span is shortened to 8-10 years old usually.
But Plum is still very healthy and active too. I am sure she'd be my good companion for a long time. We've both gone through a lot so we love each other very very much. We share everything, including the rare treats that our mommy give us, and we never fight over anything.
Plum likes to hide in the mushroom house so I have to sleep outside on the tiles. I also like to sit in the food bowl. I always get scolded for shitting in the food bowl, but it's my food I don't care!
Plum and I are classy Chins and we are well trained to pee only in the pee pan. But occasionally I feel naughty and I pee in our bathing sand just to spite our mommy. But that made us very smelly cos we bathe in the sand too. I know I am a bad boy :( I promised I will not do that again. Because mommy threatens never to give us treats again if we pee outside.



This is Papa Yb holding my wifey Plum. We are not very familiar with our new parents and new environment yet so we don't usually like to be touched or held by anyone, although we like to climb all over mommy and daddy if they just sit down on the floor and stay still.
But on this day Papa very schemingly tricked Plum into crawling on his arm - and Plum knew better than to jump down from such a height. But Plum knew Papa won't do her any harm any way so she posed prettily for the shot, hoping to get a treat at the end of it.
Anyway we chins are so smart - you can bet we won't fall for the same trick again!




Mama also posed with Plum but Mama thinks she looked ugly and old in the photos and she blamed Papa fornot making her look pretty on the picture. :D Parents. Hai.
But Papa looks very good here (Mama say cos she's the better photographer). I think our Papa looks a bit like one of us - he's got a cute Chin face! :) Don't ya think so?

Chinchin & Chinnie - a story of mistaken identities

Seeing that the blog's original purpose has not been (and unlikely will be) fulfilled, I have decided to convert it into a blog about my new pets (not neopets) - Chinchin & Chinnie the Chinchillas!

I have just adopted them from SPCA - today? Oh well the story goes like this: I went down to SPCA on Friday and I decided to adopt the pair of chins they put up for adoption. Their original names were Pepper and Plum. They are 5 and 8 years old respectively and considered quite old in Singapore. (Apparently Singapore's hot and humid weather shortens Chin's lifespan. They are supposed to be able to live 15-20 years in other countries.)

But I had to go and get them a large cage (chins like more space to run and jump about) and a mushroom house and waterbottle and food and hay and etc...
So I rushed around to get all those stuff and lugged them back. I prepared everything - everything was ready for the little cuties to move in, except I had to wait till the next day. The next day (Saturday), I woke up very early and rushed down to SPCA and got them. It was a busy day (as with every weekend) and they were seriously under-manpowered. I had to wait a long while before someone finally attended to me and took out my Chins.

So for the past 2 days I have been familiarising myself with the Chins and them with me and my house. And they are just starting to get used to the environment and their new mom. Then, I received a call from SPCA early morning today and they told me that... They have given me the wrong pair of chins!

I wanted to just keep the existing pair since I have already spent 2 days with them and I have treated them with utmost love. They are like my kids! Even for just 2 days! But apparently SPCA has to sterilise them (it's a very strict policy apparently) and many chins don't survive through the surgery. So they sent the "right" pair of chins over and took my 1st pair away.

I pray for my first 2 kids that they will survive. I don't even know their names I have just called Chinchin and Chinnie (which I am going to use for the new pair cos I can't think of any cuter names). I don't even know if they are male or female and their age.
I am seriously thinking of adopting those 2 if they survived through their surgery. Although I don't really have another $200 to pay for them and I doubt if my parents will be happy. I had already a very hard time convincing them to let me keep a pair of chins in the 1st place.

But no mom in the world will be willing to give up on their kids! I certainly want to see my first borns again - although they are less cute and less active and less guai than the new pair. The new pair seems potty trained but my first borns like to pee everywhere. And they shit in their own food tray and bath tray as well. Naughty naughty!

Here are some pictures of my first pair of chins. I am glad that yb took these photos. These are the only ones I have of them before they were taken away.
:(
I will take pictures of the new pair soonly and put them up. But for now, let's look at Chinchin #1 and Chinnie #1 and try to remember how cute they are!

*Actually the names are getting very confusing. Maybe I should just call the new pair by their original names Pepper and Plum. And call the 1st pair Chinchin and Chinnie. After all, they are special! To me, at least. :) They are the first pet I've had - not counting the poor hermit crab Tinyclawz which I accidentally salted to death in just 2 weeks :'(