The GirlAlive Blog

So just after I posted the last entry, I heard a strange banging noise from behind me. I thought it was the guinea pigs throwing stuff around their cage (as they love to do). I was just about to yell across the room for them to knock it off, when I turned around and saw that it was Binky. I gave Binky a stick to chew on, and he was trying to drag it into his igloo. The stick was about 9 inches long, and he was trying to pull it through a doorway about an inch and a half wide. He continued to try to get the stick into his house for about 15 minutes before he got tired and went back to bed.

I'm fairly certain that Binky spent most of last night trying to dig under the wall to his old house area. He even got up briefly this morning to get a drink of water and try to dig under the wall. I'm not sure how to convince him that there's plenty of cool stuff that is not on the other side of that wall. I think I may hang some more treats from the ceiling just to try to distract him.

So now we have 3 very interesting rodents. I think Homer has the guinea pig version of autistism. Then Spike has the guinea pig version of ADHD. And now we have Binky, with a case of hamster OCD.

Now that Binky has joined the family, Spike seems a lot more normal and calm. He's still a spaz, but by comparison, he's downright lethargic.

Alana