Wild America

Yvan's Fish
Yvan’s Pregnant Fish, DUMBO, Brooklyn

Chi Chi the Chinchilla
Chi Chi the chinchilla, DUMBO, Brooklyn

Yvan & Jeannette’s fish & chinchillas. I can understand why people make chinchilla coats now.. their fur is so soft. Like so soft that your brain doesn’t even register that you’re touching their fur, your hand just sinks in. I was afraid that Chi Chi was going to bite my fingers. I was having flashbacks to being 9 years old when we had gerbils and one of them latched on to my finger and all the shaking in the world wasn’t making him let go. I wish I could remember our gerbils names. All I know is that they escaped their pens and ended up dying in our heating ducts.

13 thoughts on “Wild America

  1. 🙁 damn. i think i went overboard on it. there’s usually never too much, but i think this time there was. maybe 1 or 2 cloves instead of 3. the dressing looked a little scary – like really cloudy.

    i hope you’re not scarred? it didn’t come out as well as it usually does. 🙁

    thanks for posting pics of chi chi and “the fish” (yvan never names fish – i think it has something to do with getting attached and them dying so easily. or maybe b/c guys don’t name things. except certain things. but not all guys name that kind of stuff).

    they’re famous! i’ll send yvan the link.

  2. it’s 10:30 am and I can stillll taste garlic on my breaf. mama didn’t sleep too good last night….it’s ok, was worth it..

    thanks for havin us over Jeanette & Ivan 🙂

  3. i dont know what scarred me more, the garlic or recalling the gerbil incident. i think one of them was named Herman, btw.

  4. i have a lot of names for lucy. she only responds to lucy. and even then, it’s only when she feels like it. like if there is food involved.

  5. that gerbil story is absolutely horrifying :(. I don’t know how the hell I would have reacted if that happened to me.

  6. I clicked on the link describing the little critter. Chi Chi is really cute, but I hope he doesn’t have a tail. Tails are too ratty for me.

  7. kelly, he does have a tail. it’s kind of ratty, although it’s not bare like a rat tail. you had a guinea pig.. that thing freaked me out.

  8. Herman was the name of one of the Gerbil. And you are right one got away and died in the vent of the furnace the flys were so bad I had to put a bug light in the basement.
    Cant remember the name of the other Gerbil
    About the fish when you were younger.
    Iwent fishing and cought a Rock Bass about 8inches long
    Kept it alive in a pail.
    Till I got home filled the tub half full of water
    And threw the fish into the tub.
    You decided to dump all of your bath toys into the tub so that fish had something to play with
    and then you decide it needed company
    off came the cloths and you jumped into the tub
    toys fish and all later Dad

  9. Yah, I liked that little guinea pig until it got mange from the rabit and died. They don’t have tails though. I remember the gerbil. I remember looking for it down the laundry shoot of your old house. I’m sure Dick let it out. That story is fuuny, uncle Rick. I’d comment on the clothes thing, but I can’t think of anything smart ass. Are Chi Chi’s eyes really blue?

  10. funny story, dad.. i’d forgotten that one.
    kelly, i remember us kids jumping down the laundry chute into the basement.
    was the other gerbil named joey?
    chi chi’s eyes aren’t blue.. i don’t think. i think they just look that way from the flash or something.

  11. they were gerbils? I thought they were hampters. or are those the same things? or did we have both?

  12. we had both. i think the hampsters were after the gerbils died. didn’t doug & wanda have hampsters that had babies or something?

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