Introducing, Spike and Homer
diaryland entry 7:20 p.m. - 2005-12-04
Okay, so we got our new guinea pigs, but it didn't entirely go as planned.
We got to the pet shop and they only had male guinea pigs. But they are very young and they've known each other since birth, so it will probably be okay to keep 2 males together. We hope.
We got 2 guinea pigs. One is smooth-haired black with a white spot behind his head and 2 white feet. He is named Spike. (My husband named him after the black Gremlin with the white tuft of hair in the movie "Gremlins".) Our other guinea pig is mottled black and tan with one little rosette on his head (cause he's a crested breed). I named him Homestar Runner. Homestar for short. Although we've been also calling him Homer sometimes because he seems to like watching tv.
We got the odd couple of guinea pigs. Spike is a hyperactive little spaz. He's smaller than Homestar, and always the first to try eating anything. Especially the newspaper lining the cage. Homestar is a little neurotic. For the first 6 hours or so after we got him, he wouldn't move. Even if we poked him. He just sat there playing dead, due to the shock of the bus ride home and everything. But now he's moving around more and eating and everything. He is still much calmer and quieter than Spike. Spike is a constant living soundtrack of squeaking. I've only heard Homestar make noise once or twice. So they are opposite in many ways.
One thing they have in common is that they're both adorable. They also both like eating carrots, dandelions and their own poo.
I'll post a few pictures once I get the pictures off my camera and onto my computer (I don't have the right cable, and my memory card reader is still in a box which isn't being shipped here until later this week).
Alana
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