Tag: Guinea Pig

  • Update #2 on Snickers

    Snickers got a bath; she is all pretty, smells good and doing well. I am now playing the vegetable game, trying to figure out which veggies she likes, which I can get her to eat even if not her favorite and which she will clearly not touch. Kay got her a feeding ball thingy, which…

  • Update #1 on Snickers

    Yesterday Kay took Snickers to Alameda East and got to see Dr. Fitzgerald, a specialist for small rodents like Chinchillas and Guinea Pigs. Dr. Fitz checked in several different ways for mites, fungus and ringworms, even though he said it didn’t look at all like any of those. Parasites tend to cause at least some…

  • Snickers

    Kay has been harassing me to adopt a guinea pig (gpig, piggie, cavy) for months now. last night during one of her routine perusals of the various shelter web pages, she ran across a very cute and mangled gpig. Named Snickers, she had been at the Boulder Humane Society for several months and was four…

  • Pet Stores Should Be Subject to Stricter Laws

    in the world of pets, there is obviously a wide variety of animals. if i were to break it down into two major types off hand, it would be ‘most pets’ and ‘exotic pets’. some regular pets exhibit many of the same mannerisms as exotics, and they can even share some food, treats, litter and…