We bid a sad farewell to Pepper, our last guinea pig this week. She passed away earlier this week and joined her sister Salt in PET HEAVEN. Salt died earlier this year. We will miss them both. We had them with us for four (4) years. Even though some people say they are rodents, to me they look and feel like baby bunny rabbits. They are fun to hold and pet. It was fun to get them out of their pen and let them run around the family room. They would run like a train (following each other) around the perimeter of the room, rarely going into the middle. But they learned to sneak under the couch. Then it was hard to get them out.
Besides eating the guinea pig pellets, they loved to eat carrots, celery, lettuce, tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables. They got smart and could hear the rustle of a bag of lettuce or carrots coming out of the fridge and they would start squealing, begging for food. They would gladly accept carrot peelings, lettuce scraps, and leftover salad parts. What will I do with the veggie scraps now? (Start a compost pile??)
The down side was cleaning out their cage every week. It got kinda stinky as you can imagine. That part we definitely will not miss.
The kids really had fun playing with them, building tunnels for them to hide in, mazes for them to navigate through, and just holding them and petting them. They even taught Salt to drive the doll house van one day. Amazing, huh!
Bye, bye Pepper and Salt.
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AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! we had guinea pigs named , if I remember right, Pat and Pam. I don't know why we named them that, if indeed that is right. since my sister is Pam! I never really liked them that much, but yours were kind of cool ...though I wish i would have seen them drive the van. At least I got to feed them lettuce.
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