Comments on: Squeak squeak squeak

By: Jo Beaufoix

Jo Beaufoix — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:59:17 +0000

Dan, you won’t need a Doula, honest, we had guinea pigs when I was a kid and they just pop em out. Once they did it while we were having”our tea. Every so often one of my brothers would look up and go, ‘oh, there’s another.’ It was lovely???

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:52:30 +0000

Absurdist - A Guinea pig is pretty mainstream I would have thought, certainly in the UK. Up the duff is indeed a euphemism for pregnant.

Kristina - I think you might have a problem.

Sam - Now is that a reference to your pet killing prowess or mine?

A Man among Momnmies - I could start some sort of fur farm

Xbox4NappyRash - CLEAN YOUR ROOM!

Gary - My dad made us a custom made guinea pig run in my childhood. It had a dividing wall to keep the male Guinea pigs from the females. The fact that we had two litters of guinea piglets is testimony to their escapology skills.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:48:56 +0000

My next door neighbours small daughter had her birthday two weeks ago, she wanted two guinea pigs, he started building the cage from scratch with real wood sometime just after christmas - he is a self confessed perfectionist.

The cage was ready for the arrivals on the birthday-day but now he is building a run for them and is making the cage a sort of penthouse apartment with stairs down into the run and possibly a guinea pig doorman and another entrance round the back for the tradesmen to deliver vegetables and such other good guinea pig food, he tells me that the run may well be ready before the winter draws in.

I haven’t seen the guinea pigs yet, they are living inside their house (the real, people-house I mean) because his daughter says its too cold for them outside, if they let them loose in their garden this year I may see if Jake wants to go and say hello, yum, yum, gnash and gulp.

Gary’s last blog post..York Castle Museum

By: Xbox4NappyRash

Xbox4NappyRash — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:47:28 +0000

I want Dan to be MY Dad. although he has now worried me about my vitamin C intake. Xbox4NappyRash's last blog post..Brace Yourself

By: A Man Among Mommies

A Man Among Mommies — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:34:26 +0000

D’oh

That last one was from me…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:33:48 +0000

Whats worse then one Guinea Pig..Two Guinea Pigs… What’s worse then that? MANY guinea pigs… You might have to start selling GP’s to make some extra income…Then have an infomercial… “Raising Guinea Pigs, The New Cattle” :-)

Doing a little Blog Hopping Early while Bouncing a Cranky Baby…

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:34:55 +0000

Remember - keep them away from the electric cables! Sam's last blog post..Lying and Stealing

By: Kristina

Kristina — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:01:25 +0000

Payment in sunflower seeds is great…just don’t pass off one of the litter on to me :)

Mostly with animals, give them a quiet place and don’t disrupt them and they’ll be fine…should I offer up my copy of Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth? Actually I think there is a lot of info that might translate into the rodent-world.

If you haven’t seen this, here’s a website that might help you be a guinea midwife (who knew female Guineas were called “sows”?!): http://www.aracnet.com/~seagull/Guineas/breeding.html#Birth

Um. I am officially a birth nut. Even with Guinea pigs, apparently. I just didn’t know how bad I’d gotten until now.

Kristina’s last blog post..Natural dye Easter eggs

By: Absurdist

Absurdist — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:47:21 +0000

You are seriously warped, my friend. A dog? A cat? Can’t you go with something normal? Why a pregnant guinea pig? Is “up the duff” a brit term for pregnant? Americanmum; that is fricken’ hilarious. I love the Brits.

Absurdist’s last blog post..Respect me, you muthafuckas

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:33:31 +0000

Momo Fali - Such useless facts will stand your nine year old in good stead if she ever decides to move to England and participate in pub quizzes.

Ed - send me your wife’s email address. i’ll work on her for you.

Helen - You mean… guinea pigs aren’t immortal? Oh great, tell me now Helen!