nyah! That's soooo cute! XD I can't imagine my chinchillas doing that... We used to have a tent, though, where we'd let them run aroound. We'd sit inside with them, but Ivory (the one who died...) used to always come over and sit on our laps or jump onto our shoulders... or even our heads. She'd lean into our ears and talk to us... it was so funny. ^^
Lolololololol. rofl The perch breaking... XD I always worry about that with my chins... they always bend the cage bars when they sit on 'em. >.< It's amazing what chinchillas can fit through though... I've seen them squeeze past close doors. >.< i've heard, though, that whatever they can get their head through, they can get their whole body through.
My chinchillas actually figured out how to hit their cage door at a certain angle so that it opens... we had to put a lock on it for a while. >.< Still, sometimes we leave doors open when cleaning the cage or something, and we'll just see them run past us and be like "lolwut?" it's funny, though... because when they're free they don't hide in some dark secluded corner or something... they rub it in your face that they're free. XD At one point we moved our chinchilla's cage from one room to the other, and whenever Ebony escaped, he would run back to where the cage used to be and just sit there...we called him the elephant for a while after that. One of them literally ate my science homework when they escaped... but only a little bit. XD