Guinea Pigs

I used to have 3 guinea pigs. The one above looks like my Abyssinian guinea pig, Chester. He was really smart; he could find his cage easily from anywhere in the house. He would find the staircase, jump up stair after stair, and finally leap about a foot into his cage. It was really quite amazing! I have an old video clip of him doing it, but as I don't know how to post a video I am sorry that I won't be able to add it.


This guinea pig looks a little like Callie Rose, my other guinea pig. She was really sweet too. Sometimes she tried to follow Chester up the stairs and into his cage, but even though he waited for her, she usually couldn't keep up. Here's something kind of funny that happened a long time ago to Callie Rose:

My sister and I were pretty little at the time, and we were trying to see what our guinea pigs could do. We were, in fact, trying to hitch poor Callie Rose to a tiny toy wagon, without any success. Every harness we tried (hair things, rubber bands, etc) kept slipping off. So instead we slipped a little wooden ring on Callie's neck. It worked well as a harness, but...we couldn't get it off! So we called Mom and she put some oil on callow hoping that would help, but it didn't really. Finally they found that her ear was in the way, and they got it off. My, for days afterward she smelled horrible, like stinky oil. So we gave her a bath, with baby shampoo, and it worked. (And we proved our friend wrong that it would kill a guinea pig to give it a bath) But we certainly learned a lesson.

My sister's guinea pig we called Love, because when we first got her she had a heart shaped spot of black fur on her rear end (later it became a star-sort-of shape, but we kept calling her Love). She even had some long hair that stuck straight up where her tail would have been (guinea pigs don't have tails), and my dad teased my sister so much about it being a "rooster tail" that my sister cut it off! LOL!

Guy (our border collie dog) really liked our guinea pigs. If we put them outside he would watch them faithfully for hours so no hawks would get them. I have so many pics of them that I oughta develop. As soon as I can I will edit this post with new pics.

We sold our guinea pigs about four years ago. Chester developed ringworms shortly before that and it was so sad. We didn't know what was worng with him then, but we found out too late. Anyway, as soon as I can, I think I want to get guinea pigs again.

P.S. The pics on here I just found on the internet and put them on just to give you an idea of what mine looked like.