Posted on 04/06/2024 2:49:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
they’re extremely hardy little things. We had a bunch of them when our kids were little. The only thing you have to do is make sure they have plenty of vitamin C. They lived outdoors in our backyard free range. We had a series of tunnels for them to be safe in and they lived there year round.
In summer we’d have large shallow water bowls so they could paddle in the water for cooling and in winter we put hay in the tunnels for warmth. The oldest lived to be 6 1/2 years, this is in Phoenix AZ
I was wondering if anyone remembered that story.
Living like rodents.
What about that many hungry rats on the other side of the wall.
No, not immigrants or democrats, the edible kind.
Who was the owner?
They’re only happy because they’re not NJ gerbils.
A guest speaker at our church had been to Peru. He was asked to dinner at the home of a poor old lady. He found out that dinner was her guinea pig. Sounded to me sort of like the hospitable gesture of “killing the fatted calf” for a visitor, like in the Bible. The guy was pretty humbled to realize she had used this valuable food source on him.
I love their little bloop bloop bloop voice they have.
My daughter was given the class guinea pig - Vamoose…he lived free range in the backyard for about 8 years. Pretty hearty little guy. We also had a free range bunny that wandered into our yard…we called him Lucky.
Cuy, the Peruvian delicacy. 😏
I always wondered where Randy ended up.
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