Pets

[Churchill]

Guinea pigs here from next week. We are getting them for the children, however, I am pretty excited myself - they are very cute indeed.

Not that it needs justification, but there are further reasons I can readily think of - it will teach my 7 yo daughter some responsibility (at least for a week) and also in about 4 years time it will give her some idea what losing a loved one is like.

Has she not got any maiden great aunts or something? At least she'd get a few quid that way too?

[Grinder]

Has she not got any maiden great aunts or something? At least she'd get a few quid that way too?

Perhaps at some point in the next 10 years.

[Pogle]

Guinea pigs here from next week. We are getting them for the children, however, I am pretty excited myself - they are very cute indeed.

Not that it needs justification, but there are further reasons I can readily think of - it will teach my 7 yo daughter some responsibility (at least for a week) and also in about 4 years time it will give her some idea what losing a loved one is like.

Oh - congrats, they are brilliant pets for smallish children.
Pogle jr has sole responsibility for her piggies, she feeds them and cleans them out, we do occasionally help her. They live in a massive cage in her bedroom and have a run in the garden for when its sunny. We also let them run free in the garden - its not very big and the piggies are too dumb to try and escape!
They love the garden and run round popcorning all over the place - very cute.
How many are you getting? - boys or girls?

[Grinder]

Oh - congrats, they are brilliant pets for smallish children.
Pogle jr has sole responsibility for her piggies, she feeds them and cleans them out, we do occasionally help her. They live in a massive cage in her bedroom and have a run in the garden for when its sunny. We also let them run free in the garden - its not very big and the piggies are too dumb to try and escape!
They love the garden and run round popcorning all over the place - very cute.
How many are you getting? - boys or girls?

When I was at school (many years ago) I looked after the class guineas one weekend and let them out in the garden. They shot off and dived under the fence and we thought we'd lost them but luckily my Dad was able to grab them.

Ours are 2 boys currently 5 weeks old - it will be a long week for us until collecting them! We started the hunt at the pet shops, but by chance ended up visiting an author & reknowned breeder of the red dutch variety.

Our 2 do not have the right markings for show stock, hence the sale. To be honest, I can't believe there are guinea pig shows - you just have to smile/laugh looking at them I wouldn't be able to take it seriously.

Nice big cage, http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/rodent...rat_cage/95868. And of course we have got an outdoor and indoor run to stretch their legs a bit.