Introducing!

Yesterday we adopted a new guinea pig.  We'd hoped to get one from the Humane Society, but after two weeks of patiently waiting for an appropriate one to be available for adoption, we looked at other options.  Monday I found one on Craig's List that looked promising, and after emailing back and forth with the current owner, we drove over to meet her.  This family had adopted her (also from Craig's List) a few months ago, but seeing as they had a baby, a toddler, two dogs, and a cat they had their hands full and not enough time or energy for her.

She turned out to be a beautiful silver agouti guinea pig.  Agouti guinea pigs have thick fur and each individual hair has two colors.  In her case, she has black fur with white tips. Her chin and belly are pure white.  Did I mention how gorgeous she is?  Here, see for yourself.....







Isn't she a crack up?  She is big and fluffy and looks like a chinchilla/rabbit/squirrel/marmoset/guinea pig.  Two people have already likened her to a silverback gorilla.  (When my mom saw her, her first words were: Jesus Christ!  She's huge!)

So far we have her in the small cage until we can work on introducing her to Spots.  Hopefully they will get along nicely.  She came with the name Smokey, but I think we're going to change it.  Juliana has a list with dozens and dozens of potential guinea pig names.  Maybe I'll figure out how to put a poll on here and let everyone vote.  In the meantime, we're open to suggestions!





Edited to add:  Dammit, getting the red rectangles again.  Help!  Gonna try something different,.

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