OUR 1-YEAR-OLD

Our tiny baby is already a one-year-old!
Oh my goodness, I can still remember the day when we were watching How I Met
Your Mother and started hearing funny and weird unusual noises from our guinea
pig cage.
We realized pretty quickly that Teddy, who had joined our little family a month back,
was giving a birth. It seemed to be over by that time we noticed what was happening
and saw something that wasn't in the cage before.
There was this tiny little beige thing that wasn't there earlier.
Then there was this tiny black thing that wasn't there earlier.
It was kind of a shock to both of us, not to imagine how shocked our other guinea pigs
were from this event. If you could see feelings from a guinea pig's face, you should've
seen our Viuhti.
She was so freaked out, it could have been seen on her face.

We quickly removed the mom and her kid to their own little one bedroom apartment
we created for them. You know, it's completely possible to create another place to live
for two guinea pigs in 20 minutes and that's how they were moved to their new spot.
We knew that our other guinea pigs could get a bit rough when they actually realize
that there's a new guinea pig in town, so to keep the baby safe and alive, close to her
mother, we built a new place for them for a little while.
Just until this newbie would be strong enough to confront our three little divas.
I wrote a post a few hours later about this event that happened exactly one year ago
and you can read it from here.

"Our youngest guinea pig, Teddy, gave a birth about an 

hour ago. I'm still bit confused how it all happened. We 

got Teddy in our family in August and she was born on 

4th of July this year, so it basically means that our little 

piggie is officially a teen mom.

We started hearing pretty random and weird noises earlier 

while watching tv and when we were checking that what 

was it about we realized that there was a dead guinea pig 

in the cage. 

Guinea pigs are pretty disgusting when it comes to death. 

They believe that if they will eat the dead guinea pig, 

beasts won't find the corps and they can hide those who 

left alive in peace. So disgusting. 

     It was a bit overwhelming moment when you realize that 

there is a dead guinea pig in the cage. We had no clue that 

Teddy was even pregnant, or whatever it is called with the 

guinea pigs. Well, now afterward there was a few things we 

wondered - Teddy drank a lot of water, I mean really really 

much - but so did Tiuhti, Viuhti and Sidney when they were 

younger. We thought it's not big of a deal and it would be a 

just normal behavior to young guinea pigs. 

Another one was a few days ago when I was holding her in 

my lap and I noticed that she had this random beat on 

another side of her. It was baby kicking when I thought it 

was her own heart and breath when she hadn't yet used to 

being hold."

So yeah, Peanut is now one-year-old, we kept her alive. I'm so proud of us. 

She is such a personality, I mean honestly. We've got five guinea pigs and they're all 

so different. 

Viuhti is one of those who eats for her feelings, or well, all the time. She's huge. She 

loves to be on the lap and have all the cuddles. She really loves to feel comfy. 

Anywhere & anytime. 

Tiuhti is one with an ego issue, she want's to be the queen of the kingdom. She's the 

leader. Although she lost her power to Sidney, who happened to be more of a diva 

when she arrived. 

Sidney doesn't like if her hair is touched. She doesn't like to be on the lap, she's so 

interested about everything everywhere. Once she tried to chase the vacuum cleaner 

when I was cleaning.  

Teddy is quite shy, I believe that's because of that giving birth unexpectedly thing 

happened at such a young age. She really likes to be alone. I mean, there were 4 

other buddies for her in the cage and they come along so well but she just finds a 

corner and hangs out alone. I've wondered if she's having a depression, but she 

doesn't look sad at all. She just likes to be alone, which is kind of weird when 

knowing that guinea pigs are supposed to be in packs. 

Then there's Peanut. 

Peanut is really something else. She's got a ton of energy for everything. She gets 

nuts about food, she gets nuts about hay. She gets nuts about everything interesting 

going on. 

She's so interested about everything in the world, that she doesn't stay in the same 

place for long period of times. I'm pretty sure she's having AD/HD and sharing 

issues. Whenever we're changing the water from their bottle, she has to be there 

checking up what we're doing. When we bring the bottle back, she has to be the 

one who drinks first. Even though someone else might want to drink water, she 

can just spend 30 minutes on the bottle, on/off drinking and whining if someone 

gets close. 

When she sees that someone else is at the bottle, she has to be there and drink at 

the same time. 

At the moment I'm writing this, she's asleep next to the water bottle. 

I mean, hello dude. 

She's literally not afraid of anything. 

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