Cute cavies

We have all of the guinea pigs here now, and they seem to be settling in well. We ended up with six--three pairs. My friend, Julie, left her little lonely guy here to stay with us. Jolsy was becoming very depressed and lonely after losing his partner. He and Vivi hit it off and are now best of friends and roommates. He's neutered, so we can safely pair him with a female. They look adorable together. L had changed Vivi's name to Daffodil, but she kept forgetting and calling her Vivi, so she decided to just leave that as her name.

They now use the same hidey house, even though they have two. So precious!
<--Oona (mommy pig)


<--Luna (baby)

We went to pick up the baby that we had adopted a few weeks ago (with the other three), as they are now old enough to leave mommy. Since we didn't want a singleton, L was going to pick another one to share a room with the baby. I let her go down with Charlene (the rescue woman) to pick, so she would make her choice completely independent of me. I always choose the least adoptable--oldest, least cute, health problems, because I don't mind that but others do. I wanted this to be totally her choice.

She came back upstairs proudly with the two girls she picked. A baby--the runty one who had an ulcer in her eye and the mommy, who was half bald from hormone problems. That's my girl! They are adorable and absolutely perfect!

Blossom and pansy like their lap time almost as much as they like their fresh produce. It's been easy to get them used to be handled, because they are so food motivated! Unfortunately for them, they are on the rotund side, so their food intake has to be limited.

It does add time to our already full daily feeding and cleaning schedule, but it's okay. It is so nice to have piggies again! We really missed their happy little squeals and fun personalities. Jolsy and the five grand ladies are loaded with personality! I do find it a bit odd the obscene amount of poop they produce every day. It's just so much. At least it's tidy little dry odor-free pellets, and not runny or stinky!