Shenanigans
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some of you may know my username- I was quite active on here and was selling sticks for a while and then got really sick. i can't express enough how much my chin helped me through everything. I got to a point where the toll of my illness exhausted me so i was basically bedridden (and getting very depressed). Every morning before my guy would go to work, he would bring Yuki in for me while he got ready, then took him back when i got a kiss goodbye. I couldn't continue with school or work. Houses get pretty lonely. Sure i had family and friends- but they have work and families and lives too. Getting up to going to my chin room to see Yuki and feed and clean up was about my extent of exercise as well as my companionship during the day. it may sound pathetic to healthy people, but that little bit of something kept up my willpower. The daily reason to actually force whatever energy I had into getting up helped me from getting worse and helped me gradually get better.
A lot of people in my life don't see chinchillas as family. My parents' and my sister's dogs are family and will come to our weekly family dinner, but somehow a chinchilla is put more into a pet fish category in their minds- oh that's nice to look at but doesn't have the same level of emotional connection. My grandma gets confused why I would even want one until I remind her she feeds squirrels out side and try to say it's kind of like that.
It's difficult that the only reason I may be as okay as i am today is...devauled?... by many people in my life. Without my chin to go see and interact with I wouldn't have put nearly so much effort into moving around as I did and continue to do.
Because of my illness I wasnt able to do anything. Well, now I still have pain if i overexert myself and i'm winded easily. It makes even going grocery shopping a exhausting chore. i'm slowly getting better (sitting in his room for playtime more, and carrying him on "chin walks" to see the house and out the windows) I even went to my first chinshow in Jan. (Chin shows are amazing you guys- everyone's so friendly- I definitely recommend it.) I seem to come up with more energy for chin-related stuff.
I hope to start makeing fleece items and maybe even makeing sticks again. Fleece sewing shouldn't take too much effort but, Im not sure about tromping around outside to get sticks. While I normally love snow, i tend to over-do it and set myself back.
Whatever Im going through, Yuki's there. It's an amazing comfort and it's hard to articulate exactly how he helps. (and dont worry for him, my guy has been there through every step when i learned about chins and has been hands-on so he knows what to do- and i remind him all the time just in case) Yuki and I continue to get closer and we're working on tricks while its just us two at home. 1/8 of his daily cherrio at a time. (although occasionally he gets so excited about it he forgets tricks he already knows-like if i knock on a shelf to hop to that spot, he just is stuck in place straining his fluffy chubby self toward the treat he doesnt understand he just has to hop up one ledge like normal)
This is fairly long, and im not sure if I got my intended point across, or any other points. Basically Yuki's awesome and I dont know where I'd be without him. Regardless of the fact he's small and must be contained in a cage for his own protection from the stuff he'd try to chew. And a huge thank you to everyone at the Michigan-in-ohio show You all were awesome and it was a great time.
A lot of people in my life don't see chinchillas as family. My parents' and my sister's dogs are family and will come to our weekly family dinner, but somehow a chinchilla is put more into a pet fish category in their minds- oh that's nice to look at but doesn't have the same level of emotional connection. My grandma gets confused why I would even want one until I remind her she feeds squirrels out side and try to say it's kind of like that.
It's difficult that the only reason I may be as okay as i am today is...devauled?... by many people in my life. Without my chin to go see and interact with I wouldn't have put nearly so much effort into moving around as I did and continue to do.
Because of my illness I wasnt able to do anything. Well, now I still have pain if i overexert myself and i'm winded easily. It makes even going grocery shopping a exhausting chore. i'm slowly getting better (sitting in his room for playtime more, and carrying him on "chin walks" to see the house and out the windows) I even went to my first chinshow in Jan. (Chin shows are amazing you guys- everyone's so friendly- I definitely recommend it.) I seem to come up with more energy for chin-related stuff.
I hope to start makeing fleece items and maybe even makeing sticks again. Fleece sewing shouldn't take too much effort but, Im not sure about tromping around outside to get sticks. While I normally love snow, i tend to over-do it and set myself back.Whatever Im going through, Yuki's there. It's an amazing comfort and it's hard to articulate exactly how he helps. (and dont worry for him, my guy has been there through every step when i learned about chins and has been hands-on so he knows what to do- and i remind him all the time just in case) Yuki and I continue to get closer and we're working on tricks while its just us two at home. 1/8 of his daily cherrio at a time. (although occasionally he gets so excited about it he forgets tricks he already knows-like if i knock on a shelf to hop to that spot, he just is stuck in place straining his fluffy chubby self toward the treat he doesnt understand he just has to hop up one ledge like normal)
This is fairly long, and im not sure if I got my intended point across, or any other points. Basically Yuki's awesome and I dont know where I'd be without him. Regardless of the fact he's small and must be contained in a cage for his own protection from the stuff he'd try to chew. And a huge thank you to everyone at the Michigan-in-ohio show
You all were awesome and it was a great time.
