Keesingk Booth: 1 Scent

Allo kitty-kitty. Yeau are veray, how do you say, curious? Never keesed a chinchilla before? (tail sweeshinks) Come closair and try an exotic fruit-ah!

Waitaminit lady. That French accent isn’t even real. You’re a chinchilla, and chinchillas are like, from Peru, and stuff.

Next!

Allo poopay. What ees youaire plezaire?

I like fruit! Got any oranges?

Oh behave, Sarah K., Kirby (chinchilla) and Lucy (puppy) and Taco (kitten)!

52 comments … read them below or add one

  1. Dusty says:

    AHHHHH Taco best name ever!!!!!!

  2. 260Oakley says:

    Kirby shows fans why she is Peru’s most beloved chin-up girl.

  3. Ayaa says:

    I tried an Exotic Fruit once.

    All I got out of it was a missing appendix and syphillus

  4. victoreia says:

    Hand over Lucy and Taco, and nobody gets hurt!

  5. Kim says:

    Stop eet, you are keeling me! This is the cutest household full of pets evair!

  6. lifediving says:

    Chinchilla’s a slut.

  7. Lizzy says:

    *throws hands up in defeat* That does it. I can’t take it anymore, CO. I’ll get a friggin’ chinchilla, okay? Just stop, stop torturing me with the cuteness!

  8. SlaveToCat says:

    I think Kirby Chinchilla rules that household with a soft paw and a flash of cuteness.

    Some people end up with all the cute. I end up with all the poop.

  9. marnilla says:

    Quelle adorable.

  10. Wend says:

    I wanna kiss all three of them!

  11. Lindsay says:

    Quelle fantastique! (she says, feigning the ability to speak French.)

    Chinchillas are pretty flippin’ awesome. And so soft. Don’t forget the soft. All we need now is the “after” shot where Kirby rolls around in her dust bin post-interspecies snorgling.

    • anonymous coward says:

      pedantic lesson of the say (says in the voice of Sheldon Cooper):

      since Kirby is a boy, you’ll want to say “qu’il est fantastique”, which is french for “he is so fantastic”.

      (of course, other french speakers will start nit-picking this on-the-fly translation, or should i say “cette traduction sur la mouche” X-D , but it is close enough to convey the gist of what you were attempting to say)

  12. ginirosaru says:

    Hey! Those are my pets! :D

  13. Gigi says:

    The puppy is smaller than the chinchilla!
    The PUPPY is SMALLER than CHINCHILLA!!

  14. Michelle says:

    Very cute, but is this an example of Pet Overload? New kitten, new puppy, new chinchilla…all at the same time? Sorry to be a wet blanket and I don’t know the backstory (rescue shelter perhaps?), but me wonders if someone is acquiring “cute” for cute’s sake alone?

    • ginirosaru says:

      Hi, these are my photos :)

      Kirby (chinchilla) is actually about 7 years old in this photo.

      Taco (kitten) was really young, yes. Lucy (puppy) is actually my brother’s dog who comes over to visit from time to time. She is also young, but does not belong to me.

      Personally I only own Kirby who is 9, Feeny who is my tabby cat who is 4, and Taco who is now 2 (the kitten in the photo).

    • Angel says:

      why else would one acquire “cute” except for cute’s sake alone? sounds perfectly reasonable to me! you can never have enough cute, imho. :)

    • Theresa says:

      That happens to be my motto: “Cute for Cute’s Sake.” I have it on an enormous coat of arms over my bed.

  15. owlwatcher_974 says:

    Hi Taco! It’s so nice seeing a familiar cuddly face here!

  16. Nikki says:

    I met my first chinchilla in person in my vet’s waiting room just 2 days ago. Such an adorable little thing. And so soft.

    • ginirosaru says:

      They are soft! :D Especially after a dust bath. Kirby will roll and roll in the dust and then come out, shake himself, grab his whiskers with his fingers a few times to get the dust off, and then come for pets. He is super soft. He is a funny little guy. He’s about 9 years old now and is such a creature of habit. He has learned that when he is out of his cage that he should not pee. We take him out to play, and then as soon as he goes back into his cage he runs on top of his little play house and pees and comes for a treat (raisin) the second he finishes. He always pees in the same exact spot and knows he’ll get that raisin when he’s done

      • bfoehsho says:

        You should try unfrosted, plain shredded wheat halves instead of raisins…too many raisins can be bad for chinchillas!

        • dub1 says:

          chinchillah buzz killah!

        • Laurie says:

          I second the raisin comment. They don’t process sugar at all and fruits and veggies of all varieties can lead to early death. For treats, I give my four chinchillas half of a plain shredded wheat, a single cheerio, chinchilla-safe woods or crushed rosehips.

      • Rachael says:

        Oh, great. Like I wasn’t already totally smitten with Kirby. You’re lucky I don’t know where you live or I would be forced to resort to chin-napping.

      • Fird Birfle says:

        @ ginirosaru:
        “roll, roll, roll in zee hay…..”

        [Young Frankenstein reference ...;) ]

  17. Mwah! I wish there was a keesingk booth near my house!

  18. isabelle from france says:

    Hey guys!
    Some french lessons needed?

    Ha ha ha!

    (just kiddin’, you make me laugh all the time. Well. Almost.) :)

    • anonymous coward says:

      hmm. and if you end up saying “fetchez la vache” as if it’s proper french, we’ll know you’re not from France, but from the suburbs of Omaha. afterwards, we’ll have to taunt you again.

  19. earlybird1 says:

    I shall now begin greeting my dog with “Allo pou-pay” each morning. Thank you. That is all.

  20. Fird Birfle says:

    zees Taco, she eez, ‘ow you say, tres belle !!!!

  21. lol loved the text, saddly here in chile the chinchilla is an endangered specie, as they were used for they’re fur :( ( sorry if i have spelling problems but english is not my language :) )

  22. Laelya says:

    Very cute, but the OP should know that cats can transmit bacteria to chinchillas that can be lethal. The bartonella bacteria, for example, is totally innocuous in cats, but can be deadly to chinbabies.

    Just be careful! ;)

  23. Venessa says:

    Fun fact: Chinchilla hair is so fine that it would take 500 chinch hairs to equal the thickness of one human hair. That’s why they’re so soft :D