Early in the morning Fred ran up the stairs and said, "Something happened to the guinea pigs!" We all ran down to look. Two dark blobs huddled under Sunshine, Arielle's pig. Babies!
Yes, our little Sunshine is a mommy! It is a shock to us all. Her cage-mate is a girl. (We think.) I hurried to check the internet for the gestation period of guinea pigs. It's 60 to 70 days and we bought these pigs almost exactly two months ago. Hmmm. Did our Sunshine hook up with a Lancaster boy? I double-checked Poppy. She looks like a girl to me. But I think we will take her to the local pet store to confirm.
Arielle and Liana are thrilled with these two beautiful babies. Guinea pigs are precocial, meaning they are born able to run around and eat by themselves. Their eyes are open and they have lots of fur. They are just miniature guinea pigs, and quite adorable. They remind me of calico kittens--tan and black and white. Mommy Sunshine is frisky and acts like nothing happened out of the ordinary. Poppy is keeping her distance. She doesn't know what to make of these two strangers in her small world.
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We can't keep these babies. Friends and family--who would like to have one?
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