Jini the cheeky chinchilla

Close view on sleepy Jini

Proud Jini with her first baby

If you read the post about Flöckli, you will know that I got Jini at the same time as Flöckli from a family in the region of Basel-Land back in Winter 2006/2007. If you want to know more about how I got them both, go along and read that post before this one.
 
Jini is approximately as old as Flöckli, so that would be 8 years if Jini was born in year 2000. Same case as for Flöckli, Jini was purchased in a pet store and they didn't give any detailed information about her. Jini is a a typical standard grey chinchilla with a charcoal-like coat and a whiter underbody almost white. With her almost 600 grams and imposing size, she is definitely the biggest chinchilla of the trio. Perhaps because of her size, Jini is more dominant compared the two others and quite cheeky. If someone disturbs her drinking fresh water she will for sure complain and when it's about food, she will do mostly anything to get to it. When I give the chinchillas some treat, most of the time Jini is the first to show up craving for the goody. Then she would snatch it of from your fingers and disappear as fast as she came to go to a undisturbed place to eat quickly that yummy treat. If Jini doesn't get its treat first then she will pinch it from the other chinchillas and she is good at it. All of these justify very well her surname: Jini the cheeky chinchilla.
 
Last year Jini got for the first time in her life pregnant from Darwin and gave birth to two adorable male standard babies. Unfortunately one of them died but the other one is doing great and has been given to Aline from Zürich who baptised him Marvin and now lives with two other chinchillas. This spring it happened again and Jini just gave birth again of two baby standard chinchillas. This time one is a male and the other a female. They are both doing very well until now. There will be more to come about the baby chinchillas on the planned baby pages. I will also give these two chinchillas away as I don't have enough space for them, but first of all they need to stay 3 months with their mother.