Our Leader Tim

• Tim founded the church in 900 BC using nothing but some fur and pure willpower.


• All Chinchillas and members of the church can psychically communicate with Tim.


• Tim goes bowling on Tuesdays and wants to start a league for the church.


• Every Member of the Church eats 3 rose hips a day to show faith to the Almighty Tim Above.


• If you hear chewing in your wall behind your bed, that's Tim!


• If you do enough long jumps you'll be able to join The Church's Long Jump team.


• Tim has kissed Cuthulu on the lips.


• After 5 years of joining the Church, you get the gift of Tim's Holy Fur Clump. You can use it for Needle Felting or something else.

• Chinchillas can live for up to 20 years in expert care/captivity.


• They can weight about 1-2 pounds and get as long as 11 inches though they could get even longer. They can jump very high due to their longer hind legs.


• Their fur is so dense because they grow 50 to 75 hairs from a single hair follicle. This is why they need to be to be kept cool and dry in order to make sure they stay healthy.


• If a chinchilla is threatened or under attack, it may do a “fur slip” and release clumps of fur, leaving a potential predator empty handed.


• A colony of chinchillas is called a herd and these colonies can have 100s of chinchillas involved.


• There are two chinchilla species: the long-tailed or Chilean Chinchilla lanigera and the short-tailed Chinchilla chinchilla. They are native to the Andes Mountains of northern Chile


• American mining engineer named Mathias F. Chapman fell in love with the rotund little rodents and received special permission from the Chilean government to import nearly a dozen chinchillas into the US in the 1920s. Its possible that every chinchilla thats here in the US in the modern day is a descendant of those imported chinchillas


• Domestic chinchillas are almost twice the size of purely wild chinchillas.


• Chinchillas take only dust baths in order to keep their coat clean since its so dense and their skin releases oils that need to be absorbed by the dust.


• Chinchillas are nocturnal and are most active at night and at dusk and sleep during the day.


• Chinchillas are herbivores and eat lots of grains and seeds. They need an extremely specific high fiber diet in order to stay healthy. They also need a very balanced diet of hays and foods, woods and treats are also important.