Today, it is Guinea Thanksgiving in our household. We went to do our normal weekly shopping today, but we ended up with a lot of great items for our girls. We bought Oxbow Western Timothy hay for the first time, and I am pleased! Usually, we would get Kaytee, and it was okay, but Oxbow is great! I mean I even wanted to try a piece because it smelled so good! It's really nice and green also. Anyway, we got a ton of veggies at Wal-Mart/Meijers. Here's a list of what we got and about how much it cost:

Today, we went to Petsmart (blah) and bought Oxbow Cavy Performance and Orchard Grass hay for our girls and I cannot even begin to tell you how pleased I am! As much as we hate to admit this, we were feeding them Wal-Mart brand food, and we hated it with a passion. I refuse to make excuses for why we did not buy Oxbow sooner, but I do know how disgusting and unhealthy those cheap pellets are. What matters is that they are getting healthy food now. We do give them Kaytee Timothy Hay, but decided

I'm sure that we have established long ago that pet store employees are definitely not smart enough to have the jobs that they do, but I have my own tales to tell.

Several months ago, my twin sister and I were looking around at the pet in Jack's Aquarium when I decided to pick up this beautiful guinea pig to give her some loving. (This particular Jack's Aquarium is supposed to have ONLY female pets, period.) Out of curiosity, I decided to sex this piggie. She turned out to be a he,