G-Force

/ masher

For years, my daughter has wanted to keep guinea pigs, but I’ve always said no.

As she wouldn’t keep them outside – “It’s too cold for them out there. They’ll DIE!” – and we didn’t have room indoors, I put my foot down and said no way.

And then, one day, I came home from work to find that she had acquired (with a little help and agreement from her mum, it turns out) two of the damn things, along with a cage to keep them in… a cage the size of a small car. It just about fits in her bedroom.

One of the tasks given me whilst she is on holiday with her mum, is to keep the pigs alive.

I’ve managed that… so far.

Before she left, I did ask – just out of interest – where I could buy two guinea pigs that looked exactly like hers.  Just out of interest.  She didn’t like that joke.  At all.

But, they’re not dead yet, so I’ve just got to keep them going until she returns at the end of the week.

Yesterday, I thought I should clean out the cage, because they’ve had a week of pissing and shitting in there, so it must be rank.

I pulled on some rubber gloves, lifted the little blighters out and put them in a box and got to work.

I was right: rank.

But, they now have clean bedding and the old stuff has been washed and aired.

Took me about an hour to clean it all out and replace the bedding. Pain in the arse job that made my back ache.

Gimme a dog, any day.

7 thoughts on “G-Force”

  1. Well done guinea pig Dad! I had one as a kid and they do a lot of ” weeing”. The cage was always so smelly and wet! Mine was in a shed at the bottom of the garden, but you could hear it squealing from the house.

    • Yes, I was amazed at how wet the bedding was.
      As soon as I’d washed it, I put the machine on a Tub Clean cycle!

    • I think pets are good for kids, in as much as, yes, there will be that emotional attachment and they will certainly be upset and devastated when that pet dies. But that experience will help prepare them for life… for what else is to come in their future.

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