Originally published at: Watch down-on-his-luck cowboy star Hoot Gibson in a 1954 infomercial for chinchilla breeding | Boing Boing
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That must be the inspiration for this!:
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The Chincilla Union shall hear of this.
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True story, one of the neighbors down the road from us when I was a kid had a chinchilla “farm” where they raised the little buggers. Just a room really with a lot of cages. Never understood it, but I guess the fur was popular for coats or something? Not my scene.
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And for this:
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And for Hoot Gibson, Vegas Cowboy. Well, Hoot was, not specifically the chinchilla thing
I wish I could link to more than the first episode of this scripted comedy podcast but the other three are behind a paywall, if you aren’t a Stitcher Premium subscriber.
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I have a vague memory from when I was a kid (Washington state, early 1960s) being told that people who had raised nutria for their fur and gone broke released their stock into the wild. The nutria multiplied and screwed with the local plants and wildlife. Wikipedia says such a thing happened in Louisiana.
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Burrowing into levee dikes and shit like that.
You know, I recall from several years ago, a push to promote hydrophobic nutria fur for tying fly fishing dry flies. Sadly, I can’t say the idea caught on enough to see it sold in fly fishing shops these days.
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Apparently it was a thing. . .
My uncle played accordion in a very similar country group like the Jimmy Haskell trio-- that was a thing too back then, you don’t ever hear accordion in country music anymore.
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One time I was at a pet store and saw a chinchilla just going to town on itself.
That’s all I have to add.
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This is like those seminars on how to make a fortune, the only person making a profit is the person selling the idea.
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Me too, once, and only once. Surprisingly filling.
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Bread? Do you roll them in panko crumbs like chicken nuggets?
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