Well, turns out Benjamin is really Benjamina as she delivered a litter of little cavies yesterday (two of six lived)! We put some pieces together and realized that Mr. Louis is really a Mrs. and was, in fact, in labor! We are awaiting news of her litter. Who knew?! (We certainly didn't!)
You can imagine how the girls feel about being here when their baby guineas are there. We gave ourselves a quick crash course on baby guinea pigs while Geoff's family rallied to figure out which one was a mother. After a call to our dear art teacher Dana Solomon (who encouraged us to own guinea pigs in the first place) she comforted us all with a visit to create little nests for the new mothers, and with the help of Geoff's dad they set up a little heat lamp, drilled a hole in the mother's cage so a water bottle could be a baby height, and separated the mothers and babies from their father since a female can get pregnant just six hours after giving birth! What a fun surprise.
Anyone want a guinea pig?
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My girls would take one off your hands if we lived near-by! How exciting! Sela and Nina are dying for babies of any kind! Our neighbors have tons of animals, and there are always babies being born..they sell them back to Denny's Pet World. A pretty good gig for the kids!
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