If you?re looking for a pet that looks like a cross between a squirrel and a tribble, that comes in colors that sound like names for new Spice Girls, check out the chinchilla.

“They come in colors like violet, mosaic, ebony, and velvet,” said Janice Martin of Jacksonville in north Baltimore County. “They can be tan, beige, gray and white, though you never breed a white with a white; they absorb their babies.”