This is my chinchilla,



First of all, look at her smug face while you take in the absolute state of her name.
Kind of a long and stupid name, but it makes her memorable. It makes the heads turn when someone asks about it, or asks just what animal she is. She's a weird one! Chinchillas are pretty weird.
For anyone who doesn't know what a chinchilla is other than "some type of fluffy rodent", here's a quick rundown on what Bong is. The fur is so fluffy that they just won't get pests in there because they suffocate, but also they can't take an actual bath or they grow mold so they roll around in dust to stay clean instead. Her diet is timothy hay, pellet food, and treats and apple sticks because I cannot help but spoil this beast. She runs around my room and chews on my wooden furniture and does fuck-all in the daytime and throws her food bowl on the ground of her cage at night to wake me up.
She is so fucking annoying and I love her anyways she is literally just my daughter and one of the few things that keeps me going at this point.
Here's more pictures of her, because, well, who can get enough of rodent pictures?






To end off the love I have for Bong Water here, the little rodent that keeps me going through life, here's a poem I wrote about her a while back.
and off she goes
from the cage to the floor
scurrying around
tracking hay
from inside the home
it’s whatever
vacuum it later
the dust and the dung
the grey lady leaves
from a luxury bath
settled on top of the cage
it climbs
there it is
the grand prize
shaking shivering and
cleaning, specks wiped off
running off everywhere
under my bed and on the desk
she pauses
where off too next
wondered for
only a second
a simple thinking process
survive and eat and
all of that is taken care of
so she wanders to the wires
and tugs them around
teeth threatening fate
to have a little fun
despite having plenty of wood
that’d be much safer
to dig into
and into the cage she goes back
by now a few hours ago
the cycle is endless.
but being annoyed with her would be
a little too much
after all
a rodent does not know any better
but to live in the present
and sip on
plastic water bottles
run around in the cage
and reach the top of it
a door closed behind
please don’t knock your food bowl over while i sleep
