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The Guinea Pigs

April 1, 2010 on 4:09 pm | In Drawings, Guinea Pigs and Hamster | 1 Comment

My husband keeps telling me we need to get more pictures of the rodents to post here, but I’m no good with a camera. So I have made some drawings.

First we have Fudge. Fudge is special. He does not get along with other guinea pigs at all. He’s so stupid that he forgets that he already established dominance over them, and humps and fights all the time. However, he loves people. Especially my husband. He sits curled up in his arms and falls asleep almost immediately. Sometimes he nibbles the husband’s arm hair, trying to groom him. He is also huge. He weighs about half a pound more than the other piggies. He is like a furry football with feet and ears.

After Fudge we have Elvis. Elvis is a fluffy little idiot. We think he might be half siren. He always leads the screaming for food in the evening. He doesn’t like being held. He makes more noise than any of the others when he’s drinking. It’s like he’s trying to wrestle the water bottle. He hogs the little wooden house in the cage he shares with Spike. The good news with Elvis is that he is cute. Just deeply stupid.

Last but not least we have Spike. Spike is a year older than the others, and has a bit of a grumpy old man personality. He has a neurotic habit of chewing the fur off his stomach. When husband holds him, he likes to sniff his face and lick and nibble his lower lip. It’s absolutely adorable. Like Fudge, Spike loves the husband completely, and flops over and falls asleep in his arms a lot. Spike is also a pellet junkie. As soon as either of us is near the cage, his paws are on the edge of the food bowl and he’s staring at us, and then the food bowl and then us again, as if to say “Are you going to put pellets in this thing or what?”

So there are our guinea pigs. They’re awesome and I wish I was not allergic to them. I can’t really hold them or play with them, which sucks. But that’s why we have hamsters. I’ll draw some pictures of the hamsters sometime soon too.

Happy Easter to everyone, in case I don’t post again before Sunday.