[PrayerWarrior]

My story of how I got my pigs is actually quite odd. It started with a duck egg.

I found a duck egg up at the pond in our neighborhood, laying in the open to be crushed or thrown in the pond by some boys. I brought it home, put it in a 10 gallon aquarium we had for our passed on hamster, Lucky, and an electric blanket. I do not think the egg was fertile, as I did a lot of research on ducklings and hatching and such, and we used a flashlight and it didn't look fertile. I didn't check it for a few hours, and it got way too hot. If there was anything in it, I killed it. I felt absolutely horrible, and took it back to the pond and put it in a nest I found, where the egg already hatched. The next day, the egg was in half, so something ate it.

Having the aquarium out made me think about Lucky, and I asked my mom if I could get another hamster for my birthday. She said yes, and I started researching. We had gotten our last hamster from an independent petstore, and I figured we'd go back to the same place. As I was researching, my mom said, "What about a guinea pig? I had one when I was a kid." And I said absolutely no way.

"They're gross! Jesse (a friend when I was little) had two and kept them in her room, and if you sat on the floor and looked at them, they would turn around and shoot poop at you, out of the cage!"

Then I searched "guinea pig" in images, and this adorable little one came up. So I started researching guinea pigs, and found out there were many rescues for the unwanted pigs, so I immediately wanted a pig instead of a hamster if it meant adoption and not purchasing. I checked out books at the library, did google searches endlessly, and eventually came upon this site. It taught me, honest to goodness, everything I now know about pigs.

I adopted my first pair of boys on my birthday, 5/6/08, and brought them home to an already set up 2x6 with fleece bedding and everything. Then, on 5/25/08, I rescued a very sick boy off Craigslist, and he came home to a 2x3 quarantine cage, and then immediately went to the vet.

All are very healthy, happy, and loving. We're going back to the rescue we got my first two from after vacation for a girlfriend for my rescue pig.

Thank you so much for all the endless knowledge on this wonderful website.