David's guinea pigs

Prior to David's birthday we decided to buy him 2 guinea pigs as our early birthday present. He'd been wanting a guinea pig for a pet and every time he came home from school he would never forget to say that he liked to have one. Hearing enough of his plea, we bought guinea pigs for him, a female and a male pair. We thought that it is about time David has a pet of his own to take care of and learn to be responsible feeding them. Of course, the cleaning of the hutch is my share to do with Dorothy's help as we could not trust David yet. They cost only at very affordable price for we took advantage of the special offer in one of the pet shops. We bought a good size hutch for them where they can have plenty of room to run around . We are using straw as their bedding and change it 2 times a week.

Brownie (female)

Lucky (male)

Over a month after we bought them, we noticed that Brownie was gaining weight and realized then that she was pregnant. On August 4 early in the morning when I checked them out, I saw one of the baby guinea pig running around inside the hutch and looking very healthy. Being so curious, I checked out for more babies inside their little house and saw another one. Brownie has 2 babies. We named the 2 babies, Fluffy and Fluffball.

Fluffy

Fluffball

Unfortunately, we can't keep them in addition to Brownie and Lucky so we are planning to put them in the pet shop once they are big enough. I know this would really make the kids unhappy as they love so much the babies like their parents. But keeping them is an addition to the maintenance and work for us, so we decided that every time the parents will have babies which we anticipated for the next coming months, we definitely just sell them. The shop where we got them is willing and happy to help us selling them too.