Hi everyone!
I'm a new Guinea Pig owner from Kentucky... Well, not "new" new but after my first guinea pig passed away, I waited a few months and then decided I just couldn't live my life without a piggie (as my toddler affectionately calls them) around.
So, I now have two young brothers that my two and a half year old unfortunately named "Bach" (I think he was trying to call him Box but it didn't come out right; I think "Bach" is cooler anyway... I love the classical composer!) and "Toe" (because the first time he held him, the cavy ran up my son's shirt and he got very freaked out; I explained his nails were a little long and it was just his toes that felt funny, so naturally that had to be the cavy's name!).
They are young - 10 weeks old, they think - but I rescued them from a shelter. They were taken in from a negectful situation. They're cuties but they don't look a thing like each other so I'm wondering if the original owner just assumed they were "brothers".
Anyway, they are happy and healthy now. It's wonderful to own a "piggie" again! I am still adjusting to their different personalities... Chris, my first guinea pig, was very vocal and fiesty, announcing his cravings in the middle of the night if he heard one of us coming down the stairs to use the bathroom and "talking" to us as we groomed him. Little Bach and Toe are very quiet, at least for the moment. Bach is very calm and exceptionally sweet, but I think Toe is a little spunkier - he will run like you're the Boogeyman when you reach in to grab him and is the first to crawl up your shirt and hide out in your hair, while Bach won't even twitch if you reach for him and will calmly sit in your lap for as long as you let him.
I'll post pics soon... Bach is a short-hair golden and white and Toe is a short hair brown, black and white.
I'm a new Guinea Pig owner from Kentucky... Well, not "new" new but after my first guinea pig passed away, I waited a few months and then decided I just couldn't live my life without a piggie (as my toddler affectionately calls them) around.
So, I now have two young brothers that my two and a half year old unfortunately named "Bach" (I think he was trying to call him Box but it didn't come out right; I think "Bach" is cooler anyway... I love the classical composer!) and "Toe" (because the first time he held him, the cavy ran up my son's shirt and he got very freaked out; I explained his nails were a little long and it was just his toes that felt funny, so naturally that had to be the cavy's name!).
They are young - 10 weeks old, they think - but I rescued them from a shelter. They were taken in from a negectful situation. They're cuties but they don't look a thing like each other so I'm wondering if the original owner just assumed they were "brothers".
Anyway, they are happy and healthy now. It's wonderful to own a "piggie" again! I am still adjusting to their different personalities... Chris, my first guinea pig, was very vocal and fiesty, announcing his cravings in the middle of the night if he heard one of us coming down the stairs to use the bathroom and "talking" to us as we groomed him. Little Bach and Toe are very quiet, at least for the moment. Bach is very calm and exceptionally sweet, but I think Toe is a little spunkier - he will run like you're the Boogeyman when you reach in to grab him and is the first to crawl up your shirt and hide out in your hair, while Bach won't even twitch if you reach for him and will calmly sit in your lap for as long as you let him.
I'll post pics soon... Bach is a short-hair golden and white and Toe is a short hair brown, black and white.