Turns out this particular pet or animal as you could say had been disturbing our peace in the house because of its constant running and noise making.
My dad had tried all he could to find out what it was.
Every time there's an unusual noise and sound he heard on our rooftop and was always wondering what it was.
And it happened today that when he woke up very early in the morning and went outside He caught the mother chinchilla making her way to escape.
My dad was prepared for it and so the mother escaped.
But not too long or very long, the baby chinchilla came running too to make her way out and join the mother, but unfortunately for it my dad caught it red handed, killed it and left it laying helpless.
I woke up to meet it laying helpless on the floor. I asked my dad about it and he narrated the whole incident.
But the animal was really looking helpless to me.
At first, I shouted "what is this"? Since I've never come across it.
So I was perplexed. I also noticed the animal had big burging eyes that was looking so mysterious that I was forced to capture it with my phone camera.
I noticed while I was taking the shot , its eyes were shining as if suddenly lighting up.
I was more amazed at the sight of this. I couldn't help but research on it. I had to Google and browse about the animal.
Though for a typical Nigerian, at the sight of such astonishing things we would easily say it's a witchcraft animal or some kind of a bad or evil creature. But all things being created by God I believe is for a specific and defined purpose.!
Discovery
Looking closely at the animal, you would notice it has kinda two colours of eyes that seems quite similar; one side of the eye is yellow while the other part is orange in colour. Though they look almost the same.
My Conclusion
I browse about the animal and I saw such related species of such animals. But I think the only one that look quite close to the one my dad killed was;
"The Chinchilla"
And that is why I call it chinchilla although I might be wrong in a way but we never know. It just some discovery I made.
Everyday we get to see new things and learn. So such chances can never be misused!
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