slightly radiant ([info]alibee) wrote,
2005-07-16 13:59:00

for Patti

[info]silsbycarr asked about the piggies. Here they are, in all their hairy, wheeking glory!



Bacon (aka "The Walking Toupee") and Snowy have grown!


They give you a look.


Snowy near the dvd remote, so you can see her relative size (aka HUGE).


Bacon is even heftier than Snowy.
Tags: piggies

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[info]kaleidoscopeeye

July 16 2005, 19:11:46 UTC 6 years ago

They are sooooo cute. What do they do? Do they live in cages? Do they play on things like hampsters or just chill out a lot like cats?

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[info]kaleidoscopeeye

July 17 2005, 05:52:31 UTC 6 years ago

Wow, that is a deluxe kingdom!

[info]alibee

July 16 2005, 19:35:46 UTC 6 years ago

This is their cage; it's a two level thingy. Guinea pigs need lots more space than hamsters so it's kinda sizeable, but it's in the corner so it isn't a huge space hog. They run in circles sometimes, bounce around on their own (called "popcorning") and chew on balsa wood, but they don't do the wheel thing because it's bad for their backs. :) So, they're pretty chill (but they're a LOT jumpier than cats because they're prey animals).

[info]melly_girl

July 16 2005, 21:04:55 UTC 6 years ago

Whoa!

Man - they are huge! What are you feeding them? Super Miracle Growth?! Wow! :-)

[info]jennywho

July 16 2005, 21:33:46 UTC 6 years ago

aw! you have such cute little pigs!

[info]carolinebee

July 16 2005, 22:18:36 UTC 6 years ago

Giantius Fuzzballius!! Sheesh!

[info]dusty_dubplate

July 17 2005, 06:00:00 UTC 6 years ago

Oooshoooo boo boo doo doo!

Where do you get Bacon's highlights done? :-p

[info]silsbycarr

July 18 2005, 12:52:04 UTC 6 years ago

Seriously, they are TOO cute! That Bacon - she has quite the 'do. And I love that Snowy's little pink feet. PINK FEET!!!!

(I wasn't online this weekend, I was geeking out reading the latest Harry Potter installment in 2 days.)

[info]alun_clewe

July 18 2005, 20:14:21 UTC 6 years ago

Bacon bears a strong resemblance to the first guinea pig my siblings and I had as a child, named Herman.

Herman went on to have a number of descendants, most of whom were given away to friends of the family. Although Herman himself is long gone now, he's probably still got some descendents out there somewhere.

I remember after the family got Herman, and my parents decided to go back to the pet store to get another guinea pig of the opposite gender...except that at that time, they weren't sure what his gender was. My parents and my brother assumed Herman was female (that was before he was named Herman, obviously; I think at first he was named Harrietta, which name ended up being given to the second guinea pig we got, the mother of most of Herman's offspring), but my sister and I insisted that he was a boy because he had a boy's face. In retrospect, of course, I don't think my sister and I could really tell anything about Herman's gender from his face, and the fact that we were right was just coincidental.
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