We've adopted two boys....

And without further ado, here they are....

Meet Batman.... (eating an orange)



and Snickerdoodle/Cookie/Taylor/Joker or whatever Cater is calling him at the moment.

Sorry, I couldn't resist teasing you with the title of the post!!

These two little guys are guinea pigs (or cavies if you are being more correct since they aren't pigs at all). There is a long story about how we aquired our little cavies which I will save for another day as it involves old pictures, stories and me apologizing/admitting I may have been wrong. I have to be in the right mood for all that humbleness!!LOL

So in a nutshell, Selina had a cavy in her class. We brought it home for the weekend. I realized it is not as much like a rodent as other rodents. Cavies are actually very, very social animals that like people, and eating and are pretty low maintanence. They make little noises like purring and squaking. The squaking is done so you will feed them and once you do, they stop so in that regard, they have trained me already. They don't have long tails and are hearty enough for the kids to carry around. If you put it on your lap to pet, it just sits there. Pretty cool huh?

So over the weekend, the kids did great with our little visitor. Cater loves animals and wants a puppy really bad. I slowly realized that a cavy is like a puppy that never gets bigger (like our two big labrador retrievers) and lives in a cage with a much shorter life span. Cater- meet your new "puppy"!!JK


Actually I loved having a hamster growing up and I think it is good for kids to have the experience to love a smaller animal like that. I didn't want to get a hamster as they are too small. I had heard of guinea pigs but did not know anything about them until recently. The more I learned the more perfect they seemed for our family. Then TR made the mistake of saying, "I know I will regret saying this, it is only a matter of when, but I am okay with us having guinea pigs" Fast forward one week later (I am so fast it can be scary for him) and we have two new family members!!LOL

I thought Kman's little cavy possessed some genetic mishaps as he has this wild mohawk like hair that goes every which way. Apparantly, he is a different kind of cavy that has these "rosettes" in his hair and this condition that I thought was the result of a poor gene pool is actually pretty cool in the cavy world. Kman loved his hair and wanted to name him Travis Barker (who I guess is a musician in Blink 182- this is what Guitar Hero does to kids- they start to know bands and singers better than their parents). I guess this Barker character has wild hair like our cavy. Thankfully he decided to keep his name Batman.


Someone from my school district had these two little guys and did not want them anymore because they got a dog (a total PET peeve of mine). So their lack of commitment to the natural conclusion of their pet's life is our gain. They came with their cage, balls to let them roll around in, a portable fence for outdoors and all the starter supplies I needed and best of all, they are used to kiddos!!


Our little boys are doing great. The kids will bring them out and have them sit with them when they do things. We have only had them a few days so we are trying not to overwhelm them.

PS...Selina was not in the pics above as she was sleeping when I took them all. She also loves the boys. She has had practice with the one in her class. She pets them gently as she yells, "mom,look,Batman, mom, Batman, look, mom, Batman, Batman, oh, Batman". We are working on trying to curb a little of her enthusiasm as cavies have sensitive ears according to "The Guinea Pig Handbook".

Just so Selina is not left out of the post, here is a recent pic I took of her at school last week! She is getting so big and doing so awesome!