Welcome to Virginia Chinchillas. We are located in Southwest Virginia and specialize in breeding both show quality and pet quality chinchillas in both standard and mutation colors. We believe in breeding to both improve the chinchilla breed and to educate the public about this wonderful little animal.

We acquired our first chinchilla from a small pet store in

Jonesborough, TN. We had seen chinchillas in pet stores before, but this one caught our attention. He was different from any other chinchilla we had seen in a pet store before. He energetically followed us to whichever side of the cage we went and put on a miniature acrobatics show inside his cage. We immediately fell in love. We named him Squeazle and after bringing him home and working with him we soon found that he could be trained to come to us when we made a certain noise, and that he would follow us around a room, sitting on our feet whenever we stopped walking. We couldn’t believe how intelligent & friendly this little animal proved to be. So that our customers can have the rewarding experiences with their new pet/s, we try to recreate this friendly outgoing personality in our new born chinchillas through a regimen of daily handling and interaction. Each chinchilla has a unique personality, but we try to bring out the best traits in all the chinchillas we raise.

We hope you will bring one of the endearing creatures into your home so that you can learn first hand just how special these little rodents are. Through them you will redefine what a rodent pet can be in terms of intelligence & interactivity.