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Jay and I have a guinea pig named Murray.

Here he is:
This is from about two years ago right after I got him. At the time, Jay was endeavoring to get me a hedgehog (my not-so-secret ultimate pet desire). He happened upon a woman giving away her 6th grade daughter's guinea pig.

Murry is...less than social. "Antisocial" is a good word, actually. He doesn't like to be touched...at all. Trying to pick him up is a chore and once you finally have him he sits there in terror. I don't know what that girl did to him, but he does not like to be handled. We figured we would try and get him a buddy someday to get him to be more social.

Skip to a few days ago when Jay told me a friend of ours from work was moving to Colorado and had some guinea piglets that he needed to give away before they ended up at a pet store. I'm learning more and more every day that Jay has a bleeding heart for animals, especially ones that are of the cute and fuzzy variety.

Tonight, we brought home Theocoles: The Shadow of Death.

Okay, so he's 2 1/2 months old and was the runt of the litter (hence, why the name is so ironic-funny). Omigod he's so soft and cute! I can pick him up with one hand! And he lets me!

Garret is much more pleased with this guinea pig than "that other one."

As a bonus, we also got a really big cage. It's probably a little over 4-cubic-feet (which is ideal for one guinea pig but these two will easily be comfortable in it, even when Theocoles gets bigger).

We have not introduced them yet. Right now they're in "quarantine." They really should be in separate rooms but as we have limited space, they're in separate cages on opposite ends of the wall in the living room (Murray is occupying the bigger cage because he's huge and we felt we should get him used to it).

Here are a couple parting shots:



((Cross-Posted at Holy Matrimony!))