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I recently found myself facing the hardest thing in my life thus far, I had to rehome my 2 chinchillas. I had been living in an apartment for 8 years that had black mold and no matter what we did on an over the counter level we couldn't eliminate it and it had got so bad I could no longer even contain it. Over the years I started having breathing problems and my boyfriend and I both found ourselves hospitalized due to mold inhalation. The slum lord did not care about the house and said she is just going to paint over it, what a fool... we have since called the board of health and the town and are trying to get the house condemned.
My entire life I have been a huge animal lover and while at this house I managed to collect my own little zoo but adopting a bunch of animals (all of which were dumped randomly at various pet stores in my area). I thought I was doing good by rescuing them but ended up with 3 rabbits, 2 chinchillas, and a hamster.
We finally found a new apartment that was in our price range, close to our jobs and accepted pets (as sadly most apartments here in Westchester NY do not). However there was a catch, the landlord has a 2 pet max and we have 6. She also complained about how much noise the chin's cages made, and their saucers spinning, along with their excessive gnawing on everything (in their cages). Between gnawing on their chin safe wood shelves and their lava ledges and the occasional chewing on the bars trying to get to one another.
Well 2 of my buns are a bonded pair are staying with us. The third bunny has moved 10 minutes away to my mom's house as that is her little buddy. The hamster has moved into my job at a daycare center and is going home with a co-worker on weekends.
Now I was down to my pair of black velvet chins whom I've had since the girl was less then 4 months and the boy from a few months after that.
I am beyond devastated but after spending over a year trying to find this apartment and spending a ton of money to move into it, we are at a point of rehome the chins or have all of us be homeless.
My girl chin (Clarice) is 3 months shy of turning 4 and the boy (Dallin) is a bit older but nobody really knows just how old (we are guest-a-mating 6 years old). We felt that although this has me emotionally a total wreck for the 2 months we have been looking for a new home for them that they are still both young enough that if transitioned correctly and given enough love in their new homes they should both be able to do great and have happy healthy full lives.
After exhausting all my possibilities of trying to convince one of my friends/family members to take my babies (so they'd stay close and guaranteed in good hands) I tried getting in touch with every shelter/rescue within a 3 hour drive. I got very few responses back and the ones whom did reply simply stated they were full and couldn't help.
Then I got an email back from an amazing woman named Andrea from Forever Feisty Chinchilla Rescue Inc. Tho her rescue was full she did everything she could to contact everyone in her power to help me find a home for my babies. Through her I met an angel named Julia up in Albany who already has 3 chins but agreed to take Clarice home. I spoke to Julia for a few days online and we began to follow each other on Facebook, I found her to be a genuinely kind person who really cares about her chins and I feel would be a good fur-mom to take over for me in raising Clarice.
SO... I packed Clarice and all her stuff into the car and drove almost 2 hours upstate to meet Julia (halfway) to introduce her to Clarice and send them home together. Tho she has only been living there for a day Julia says she appears to be adjusting well and in time she is going to try to see if she will play with the 2 other girl chins she has. We have already spoken of me going all the way up to Albany to visit Clarice in her new home once she gets all settled. One of my best friends who is also a huge animal lover and has a small zoo of her own has seen just how traumatic this has been for me and is going to try to take Dallin home (even tho she already has 5 male chins). This would keep Dallin 15 minutes from me and allow me to visit regularly and hopefully miss him a little less.
If this arrangement doesn't work, Julia has said she will take Dallin and I would bring him with me when I go to visit Clarice.
All and all this has been so stressful for me and I can't believe I have to part with my children but Andrea did an awesome job of helping me out and finding them a new home where I believe they will both go great.
A huge thank you to Andrea !!!
When we get ourselves fully economically stable and can own our own home I will get back in touch with her to hopefully bring home a new chin or a bonded pair which we will be able to keep at our forever home.

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