I used to breed chinchillas. I had a std. grey male named Cody, a std. grey female named Pica, a violet female who was rescued from a fur breeder named Little Face, and a white female with some silver tipped hairs named Tess. I ended up with 2 babies, and both were solid white. They were good pets but required more then any other small rodentish pets. They had to have dust baths every day, they were so extremely nocternal and sensetive to daily noise that I had to pretty much give my room up to them. I tried not to run the vaccum cleaner during the daylight hours, play music, have the TV turned on too loud and would generally tiptoe around them so as to not stress them out. Being the responsible pet owner that I was I had to examine their stools daily for too loose or too soft texture, and every night after the sun set they had their free time out of their huge cage. I let them run/hop through the living room for a couple of hours. If anyone is considering getting a chinchilla know that there's ALOT to those little cuties becides just feeding and watering. Remember that the dust that collects around the house from the daily dust baths was beyond a chalange. I would not recomend them as they were pretty high maintence and, although they were so, so cute, they required so much more then a hamster, gerbil, rat, guinea pig, or bunny.