New arrivals.
We have two new members but not in
the main pen. Their names are Lottie and Lacy, two six month old Peruvians. Now
Lacy was fine but Lottie was a pain. She obviously made up her mind that she
didn’t want to live with his for she kept attacking us. In the end
himself gave in gracefully and made another separate pen at the end of ours and
they moved in there. Good riddance to bad rubbish we all say. Himself says she
is a pussy cat with people, just hates guinea pigs, well all apart from her
mate Lacy!
A couple of weeks back we had great
entertainment which left us all rolling on our backs, convulsed with laughter.
He always brings some portions of
cucumber in on his dinner tray from the kitchen for Jake and Jasper always
follow him in and do their ‘Beg pretty please’ routine. He has
learnt that if he ignores them he is liable to get the bottom of his trousers
lugged about so he is always prepared.
Well, there he was, salivating for
his pasta dish with the powerful aroma of mushroom sauce wafting up balanced on
his knees. However, this time Jasper was a tad over enthusiastic and missed the
cucumber that was being proffered and sunk his incisors into his finger. There
was a yelp of pain, the tray shot into the air, the Pyrex lid on which was the
meal, broke into pieces when it hit
the floor and the pasta and sauce was spread all over the place.
The sight of both Jasper and Jake
trying to gain traction to get their backsides back to the safety of the
kitchen quarters, on the slippery tiled floor was a hoot, better than any cat
canary cartoon. Even though we were all startled and rushed to the furthest
corner, watching himself and listening to him, such language with many new
words for us to learn, really made our evening. The icing on the cake of
course, was that he never had any pasta a sauce left to make another plateful
and was too much of a wimp to go out in the cold and buy some more. We all felt like getting our violins out
and playing sad tunes for him as he munched on cold cheese sandwich. He had a
facer on him as though he was chewing on a wasp!
Jake and Jasper kept a very low
profile for the rest of the evening!!!!