Quality Time

Just thought I would share a pig-ture of Molly and Amy spending quality time together:

Guinea Pig Crazy

They're all nuts. Betty just ran lap after lap around the cage. Diane tried to mount everybody in sight. Twinkle came out of the cage for a wee sniff - probably for the first time in years. Then Jenny had a gallop around the cage, while Betty, Amy, Chloe and Diane were exploring the wonders of the dining room floor. Then Jenny went to the kitchen to see whether breakfast might be ready. Now Chloe is giving me the evil eye - I should be typing less and feeding more!

Piggy Wash

All 12 Guinea Girls got a bath yesterday following an outbreak of lice. Luckily hubby offered to blow dry them - I couldn't have done this bathing marathon without him.

Most Guinea Girls were quite good. Twinkle bit me to remind me that she doesn't like sitting in the water but doesn't mind sitting on my arm and getting rinsed. Zoe was, as ever, an absolute neightmare. Bathing went relatively smoothly for her standards but then she jumped out of the washing basket when hubby was drying her and I had to crawl all over the second bedroom to catch her.

I didn't take any pictures yesterday, but thought I would share an old one of Maya whom we still miss very much:

Jenny is tweeting

I picked Jenny up for a cuddle today as the rest ran away when I got into their cage and couldn't be bothered chasing them. It's so nice that Jenny doesn't mind getting a cuddle - as long as it's a quick one.

I sat with her on the bed and she got comfy on my shoulder underneath my hair - a very unusual position for her. I was getting a bit worried about this when she suddently started chirping. Jenny never makes any noises, she never wheeps, the most you hear is her snorting nose when it's blocked again - something that is happening quite often this summer - I think she might have hay fever. Anyway, you can understand why I was so amazed at hearing her chirp. And especially when sitting on my shoulder. It wasn't a very loud chirp - nothing like Chloe's chirping which you can hear across the house - but definitely a chirp. I feel really blessed. Isn't she just an amazing pig?

The opinions on why guinea pigs chirp differ greatly. There has never been a satisfactory explication. However, I think I have unravelled the mistery tonight:

Chriping = Tweeting

Check this out:

http://twitter.com/Jenny_Pig

Spoilt Guinea Girls

Hubby stayed at home on Friday and spoilt the Guinea Girls with an extra meal half way through the day:

Chloe and Twinkle Update

Following her historectomy, Chloe is a much healthier pig. She looks absolutely beautiful, although a lot thiner than she used to. You can now cuddle and touch her without her groo-ing objection; somthing you could never have done before. Her character has changed a bit. She's still very vocal and screems at the top of her lungs at dinner time. Otherwise she is more laid back and it looks like she's passed leadership on to Betty who is mounting anything with legs, but Chloe in particular his her favourite object.

Twinkle too has given us a lot of bother over the last month. We noticed her foot swollen and an x-ray showed that the infection has gone into the bone. She has been on antibiotics and pain killers for the last month and the infection has gone down. However her bones are fused now and she has lesss movement in her foot. She's also been treated for mites, not the ugly black kind but a much smaller less harmful one. She had some hair loss under her chin and on her bum, but that is growing back now after the hated injections: poor sausage was screaming even before the needle went in. Once we took her off the medicine she lost some weight, but she's putting some back on and it looks like she too is on the mend.

So hopefully no more vet appointments for a long, long while.

Life without Guinea Pigs

This is how life would look without guinea pigs:

Isn't this much nicer?

Cuddle Cup

I finally managed to make a passable cuddle cup for the Guinea Girls. Hopefully they will like it. Amy sure looks pretty in it.

Mouse in the cupboard!

... a no, it's just wee Cassandra-pig.

This morning I had a cuddle with Cassy in the bedroom and put her down in the hall so she could run back to the cage. Well, a couple of hours when I walked through the hall I noticed a pair of eyes stairing up at me from inside the wardrobe and there was wee Cassy sitting comfy underneath our coats. Poor thing most have lost her orientation and just cuddled up in the first dark corner she could find. Gorgeous wee mouse!

Chloe's operation

Chloe's had her operation yesterday. She didn't just have her ovaries removed. They needed to do a full hysterectomy as they found a growth in her uterus. So unfortunately she had to stay at the vet's yesterday night.

We picked her up this evening. She looks absolutely tiny poor wee girl. She will have to get spoilt rotten to put some weight back on. She's eating and drinking just fine but moving quite slow and deliberate. We've sectioned of the cage so she has a quite corner which she shares with Twinkle who is good company.

She's such a brave wee piggy and we're so glad to have her home with us again.

Chloe likes her medicine

Chloe's really surprising me. She takes her Metacam without complains. I thought it would be a struggle as she's quite a head strong girl and in the past giving her medicine has been an uphill struggle. But now she really appears to like it. Apologies for the video being a bit dark:

Chloe

Chloe has been to the vet as she's been looking very thin (although still weighing over 1kg). She will need an operation to have a cyst removed. So please keep your paws and fingers crossed for her next Thursday.

There will be loads of cuddles and treats for this special girl who has stollen my heart like no other guinea girl!!!

Guinea Pig Paradise

I've been busy redecorating the girl's "cage" and it looks absolutely fantastic now. I think they really like it:

Keleigh

Keleigh was exhaused after a long day of being spoilt.

Perfect shot, hubby!

Guinea Pig Cusine

Just thought I would share this picture with you: