chinchilla

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The costliest felines to insure were the Maine coon, one of the largest house cats, which can be prone to a type of muscle atrophy, and the chinchilla, a popular longhair, Spot Pet Insurance said.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2024

The scene captured on video is among the findings from an undercover investigation into conditions on Romania’s chinchilla fur farms, carried out last year by the animal welfare charity Humane Society International.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2022

TL:DR: do not lick your chinchilla while you have monkeypox.

From The Verge • Aug. 5, 2022

The chinchilla phenotype, cchcch, is expressed as black-tipped white fur.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

She shook her head and blinked rapidly as she approached the furrier’s, where a harried-looking woman was pawing through chinchilla furs with one hand while gripping the arm of her young son with the other.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee