CEIBA Our Very First Baby!

So last saturday we had to give away one of our family members.. Ceiba.

Ceiba is our chinchilla that we have had since we got married. Actually the first thing we did when we got back from our honeymoon in Honduras was pick up our newest addition. We named him after the city we went La Ceiba, Honduras. He is probably the cutest pet in the world! He is super soft! Loves to run and climb on walls. Can jump super high! When he's older he'll be able to jump from floor to your shoulder!

  

I'm so sad we had to give him away. :( But with both of us working two jobs and me going to school full time, we haven't played with him in a long time. Starting to feel guilty, he just sits there in the cage all day. Since we'll be gone for a month in Europe we decided it was time to give him away to a better family. 

We found this breeder online that offered to take him while we were gone so he could make beautiful black babies and give him back when we got home. I thought that was the best idea ever! So the breeder came up to look at Ceiba all the way from provo.. got here.. inspected him from head to toe and decided he had crooked teeth and didn't want her baby chins to have crooked teeth.. so she didn't take him. She also mentioned that he'll probably starve to death because of his crooked teeth because it'll be too painful for him to eat. :(  So the plan to get him back failed miserably, we also have the fact that one day we'll come home and he wont be alive. Shauns thinks ill die if i come home to that.. And i probably would have..
 So being as hard as it was.. we finally found him a great home that had other chins living there as well for him to play with. So now we know he is at least happy, running around with other creatures like himself. When i think about him i get so sad. I miss the little guy so much. He was so fun to watch, cuddle with, and feed raisins to.(He loves dried fruit!) We had a lot of good memories with him.

We love Ceiba so much he has his own YouTube channel of some of the funny things that he did while we had him.. check him out.. Ceiba McBride

Here we didn't realize we put the water bottle to low.. 

Haha he had to get on his back to get a drink. So Cute! Love him so much!