Introducing Melissa

As you may have guessed from the title, another girlie guinea pig has joined our herd. It's a hairy one this time.

We drove down to Helen's on 14th of March to pick up the beautiful Melissa. I fell in love with her a view weeks earlier when visiting Helen and kept thinking about her non stop until we finally gave in and put her on reserve for us.

Melissa was part of a group of 14 which Helen picked up around the 5th of March. They were mostly girls and a few boys so there was a risk Melissa was pregnant - luckily she doesn't appear to be. All piggies were scruffy: they had wounds and were missing hair. When we first saw Melissa she had scabs around her eyes and ears and a wound on her flank. However by the time we picked her up from Helen she had healed nicely.

I reckon Melissa was born around December time. She's older than Amanda but not quite as old as Monica. She's settled into the group nicely without arguments and is one of the happiest pigs I've ever seen. She loves popcorning and running around like mad. She's still a bit shy whenever we humans are in the room but she doesn't run away and hide as much as she used too.