Tutorial : How to wash a Guinea Pig

Step 1: Find a stinky smelly Guinea Pig or two if they happen to be walking by.

These 2 smell like prime candidates. Skittles and Secret..my boys.

Secret even looks like a skunk so that might explain the odour.

" Your butt smells..if that is your butt..where is your head??"

Ahem...

Step 2: Carry your piggies safely to the washing area

"I can't believe she threw us in a bucket. I still can't tell which end is your head and which is your butt"

Skittles tends to be a little outspoken.

Step 3: Place you piggies gently in the tub

"You call this a tub??? It's a ratty ole laundry basin. You said we were going to the spa!!!"

Step 4: Wet the piggies

" Singing in the rain, just singing in the rain...I like this part..come on Secret ..join in"

Step 5: Lather your piggies with a gentle diluted shampoo

" Ha Ha Secret looks like the hair you pull out of the drain!!"

Step 5: Rinse, pat dry and put oven temperature to 350 degrees

NOT FUNNY TIMMY...GET OFF THIS POST..geeeezzz cheeky little bugger..

Step 5: Let the piggies dry off in a warm spot

Poor Secret..he is really annoyed with me. Look at that stink eye.

 " Dang..I look fine even when I am wet!"

Step 6: Comb the hair

" Look ladies...I have the perfect piggie profile"

" How adorable am I..bring on the hoochie mamas..I feel like dancin!!!!"

Okay Skittles, enough out of you. Poor Secret has gone into hiding he is so embarrassed by Skittles.

This ends our tutorial on how to wash a Guinea Pig or two.

PS..Right after this tutorial was filmed Skittles escaped into the pen with the ladies. We will know the results of his..errrrr....dancing in about 70 days.

Bad News

Okay..bad news time and I mean BBBAAADDDD NNNEEEWWWWSSSS

In the picture below you can see how I let my piggies visit. I put a big round pen up and put the ladies in it. Then I put the lid of a cage in the corner and put the boys in that so they can be a part of the herd but not actually IN with the girls.

See how nicely this works?? I've done it numerous times with no problems.

See ZuZu Petals talking to her son Secret?? Isn't that nice???

Well I decided the 2 boys were stinky and gave them a bath. Then I did the cage setup. I was outside watching them for quite a while and then checked on them a few times later and all was well. That was until I went out after dinner and there was Skittles, my most fav. piggie and is a BOY was in with the ladies. All 5 ladies, his mom, sisters and ZuZu Petals.

I was shocked, dismayed, upset, feeling sick, almost cried, sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, nerves on edge...you get the picture.

So there is a very good possibility that I could end up with 20+ piggies...whhhaaa..now I really want to cry.

They are not like rabbits and do not breed at the drop of a hat BUT knowing my luck and knowing that Skittles is very virile, handsome and smelt very good after his bath ..I shall probably end up with babies. Please keep your fingers crossed for me that not too many will be knocked up.

I still have no idea how he got out. Good boy Secret was still in the cage. I have no idea what I will do with babies because I already kept all the surprise ones my females came with.

I already kept all the surprise Bunnies My female gave me. I never had ANY litters of anything when I lived on the farm...why is this happening now!!!

Oh well in 70 days I will know what the future holds...WWHHHAAAAAAAAA

New Love

I've owned a lot of different animals over the years but these guys have won me over!! I don't know why I didn't get one or errrrr seven ...years ago!!!

Meet the PIGS..guinea pigs to be exact.

In this mass of fur there are 7 guinea pigs. Did I want 7 guinea pigs....nooooooo, but here they are!

I went to a chicken sale and as anyone knows who has followed this blog I should never go to those things. I had decided that I wanted 2 guinea pigs. Where I keep my horse there are 2 awesome piggies and I just had to get one or two or seven.

So I picked out a cute one and since they were 2 for $5 I also picked her out a friend.

They were both girls and both 3 mths. old. I said the the guy selling them "there isn't any chance of them being pregnant is there?" and of course he said no way they are too young.

So I felt pretty safe and brought them home. They were soooo cute but the one named Jellybean kept getting fatter so I finally had to admit she was knocked up. I kept flipping the other one I named ZuZu Petals upside down to check her "privates" to make sure she was a she. I think it gave her a complex.

So I checked out all the facts on the Internet and sure enough, just like it said, exactly 2 months after the sale Jellybean gave birth to 4 babies. I was sooo excited. They were amazing, eyes open..running around. Luckily I had separated ZuZu Petals and Jellybean a few days before but ZuZu Petals wasn't getting much attention because of the new babies. That was until I was feeding them and a baby ran out of ZuZu Petals house. I didn't even know she was preggars because she always kept her girlish figure. Jellybean on the other hand was HUGE You could sit her up like a dog begging and she couldn't budge because her baby belly would settle in around her. He was a little older than Jellybean's kids and looked very healthy. I named him Secret.

Unfortunately Jellybean had 2 runts. One was just small and I named her Jello, because I like Jello, but the other had a crooked head and gimpy hind leg. I named her Sprout. When I came back from work on day 2 I found the sickly runt Sprout rejected in a corner of the cage all by herself..so super owner jumped into action and gave her to ZuZu Petals. After all her boy Secret would do better with a sibling. She basically sniffed her once and then tucked her into her hair and that was that. She thrived with her new mommy and all was well in the piggie world.

So here are some pics..more to come of course as I introduce you to the gang...and yes I kept all 7 of them!!.ZuZu Petals, Jellybean, Sprout, Skittles, Secret, Bean and Jello.

Here is Mama Jellybean. She is a sweet piggie who loves her treats. Very easy to handle and gets along with everybody. She is a little camera shy but has scruffy tri coloured hair.

This shot has Jellybean's butt on the left, then Bossy Bean in the center and little Sprout on the right. Jello is behind them with her belly bandage on but that's another story.

This is ZuZu Petals. She is red and white and has long back hair that I comb all the time. She is super friendly and talks to me all the time.

Here she is talking with her son Secret.

They are so cute with their fluffy hair and floppy ears and I love how they sing like a little choir of angels. Well maybe not angels but they are sweet!!