Victor was born on February 20th 2008 and died on 29th May 2014. He was over six years old and that's very old for a guinea pig. Although Colman's older now. He was born in Auntie Vikki's house to a sow called Snowy, who was already pregnant when she went into the rescue. Vikki said …
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Uncles
Uncles are very important in a guinea pig's life. I expect lady pigs need aunties, but boars need uncles. It's so that we don't go and make babies by mistake, so I'm told. Anyway, when I was very young (3 weeks) I left my birth mother (dam) and came to live with an older pig …
Dylan! (and Dougall)
D is the best letter in the world, because it stands for DYLAN - and that's me! It also stands for Dougall, and that's my brother. I look after him, of course. He's always been shy and retiring. Some people find us hard to tell apart but Dougall's got a white bottom and I've got …
We’ve been here three years
As far as I'm concerned I've been here all my life. But today's the date that Mummy and Auntie Vikki brought Dougall and me home from the place where we were born three years ago, when we were three weeks old. Vikki said that normally we'd go to a foster home with an Uncle boar …
Seven weeks went by
Seven weeks went by and we changed from end of summer to deep dark, damp winter. That's what it seems like anyway. It's a long time since Humphrey left us and Midge and Oscar came. It's an even longer time since Fred left the house, and Dougall and I weren't even alive then. Yesterday was …
I want to do the A to Z Challenge
I'm sure I could do the A to Z Challenge. It happens every April. Victor did it when he was my age and he enjoyed it. He made lots of new friends too, and the links to some of them are in the "Z to A Backlinks" list on the side. Mummy says not many …