Hi everyone, I just got my very first cavy am came across this forum. I have always loved animals! When I saw this vegitarian discission I was very interested. Well to make a long story short, I read a lot of the topics and articles you guys have links to and shared a lot of the information with my husband. We then decided to go to the library and get all the books we could find on becomming vegitarians! We feel stupid for never educating ourselves to what actually happens to these poor animals. Also we have learned how healthy a vegitarian diet is! We began our vegitarian diet yesterday. We are still reading a lot about it and trying to decide what to do about milk. We don't want to be vegan but we have heard before that cows milk isn't very good for you. We don't know if we want to go on soy or rice milk though. Well I just wanted to tell all of you thanks for changing our lives! I am glad we found out now because my husband and I are newlyweds so now we can have a happy, healthy life!