chinchilla

They lack the adorable charisma of chinchillas, porcupines, moles or rats, though.

And soon, amid squeals of encouragement from my friends in the Small Pet Department, from the teeniest white mouse to the lumbering chinchilla, I left Pet-O-Rama with high hopes.

It was a refuge for abandoned exotic pets that Floridians could no longer care for, as well as for orphaned native wildlife, including chinchillas, skunks, stingrays, lizards and alligators — around 250 of them, all told.

The SEC has argued that the test -- which has been applied to investments in everything from whiskey casks to chinchillas -- depends on the economic realities of transactions, not the labels applied to them.

“The day after she arrived,” Ms. Smith wrote, “the fur coats, including one sable, one chinchilla and a mink, were missing,” apparently stolen from the actress’s hotel room.