and I really want to keep them. I love my little piggies. Poppy and her booboo lips, bear and her quirky heehaw squeak, and then there's Gimpy who's all brown except for his backside where it looks like he sat down in a pile of cinammon. the funniest marking I've ever seen. Gimpy is...kinda gimpy. He walks with a leftward lean, and lives in a little hidey hole log. When he's excited (happy or scared) he runs out, around, through and out again, over and over and over, always to the left. He used to try to do laps around the cage with the other baby piggies, but if they were going clockwise you'd hear a thud every other second as he'd run straight into the wall instead of pull right. I think it's made him Gimpier.
We thought he didn't have enough balance to manage being a father. But he did it. Somehow. With his sister and his mother. So I have a cage of perverse guinea pigs who are about to pop out 2 litters of hopefully not any gimpier than their father babies.
Ya gotta laugh whenever you find a reason!
More piggies on the way?? hey, maybe you can sell and make some money :) Gotta laugh AND look on the brightside!
ReplyDeleteThat's true! people love the fluffy ones, and at least half should come out that way. I don't think inbreeding effects them too badly unless it's multiple generations, but I have to say I honestly feel a little weird about my piggies private lives! It's my fault for putting a boy in with his mom and sis, but his brothers were beating up on him and pulling his hair out. He was soooo pitiful! Gimpy is a fairly happy man these days (except for always generally being freaked out...I think he has vertigo or is blind in one eye and it keeps him off balance and confused, and therefore terrified). Poor little guy. That's my Poppy girl in the door of the cage. She stands up and rides it down as we open it to be the first one to get a treat. I get so much pleasure out of them. I'm gonna HAVE to find a way to keep them with it being cleaner, or my children will just set them loose into the yard one day!
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