Blackie: I got her second at PJ's Pet Center, at Scarborough Town Center (STC)
Missy: I got this baby guinea pig at Petsmart.
Ginny and the Purr | The First Toothfairy Visit | The Confusion | The Squawk for Breakfast | The Haircut | Sleepy Time | Ginny and the Heat Stroke
Story Number #1: Ginny and the Purr
Ginny and the Purr was about Ginny the Guinea Pig encounters a new friend. Her name was, Blackie. Blackie just happened to be a "Girl" and Ginny just happened to be a "Boy". This means that they can mate and reproduce - which can be negative, or positive. So then, Ginny sniffs around her on the first day. He started to squawk (You can hear the noises of squawks at beanmakers.com) and he ran around our laps. Blackie was a new visiter, and Ginny was a guinea pig full of squawks.
At this moment, a.k.a. three days later...
Ginny met Blackie on the floor. Ginny started to run to her, and began one big purr. This purr was uncommon to us...pretty rare. When he purrs, this means that he's producing something that a boy produces at a certain age. Should I mention what it was? Don't think so...email me to know what it was:S. So then, Blackie started to get annoyed. Ginny chased her around and around. He wouldn't stop. Blackie ran around and around. She wouldn't stop. This was our way of getting them used to eachother!
Later On...about 6 months later...
Ginny encounters his new friend, Missy. Learn about her later on. Ginny thinks that she's a girl, so then he lays off with Blackie, and sets his mind to this baby guinea pig, Missy! But a few days later after all three met, Blackie started to feel heavy. Is this last of her? Is this the beginning of a new life? The question remains...
Is Blackie Pregnant or NOT?
Ginny the Guinea Pig has done it again! Did you get a new guinea pig? Did its tooth break? Did you panic? Well, here is Ginny's story of his first tooth break:
Ginny the Guinea Pig was quiet and normal. I was holding him in my right hand not keeping aware of any dangerous incident about to occur. So I walked and walked in my kitchen, trying hard and hard to find something to eat for lunch. I couldn't find anything! I got angry. So then, the phone rang, and I picked it up not remembering that Ginny was still placed in my right hand. I then opened my hand and, SLAM!!! Ginny hit the ground, hopeless, and he squealed. I got scared. I didn't think of checking his teeth at all, I thought of checking his stomach, and other parts of him.
I then took him to my brother, and he took a look at him (My brother has no idea what a guinea pig eats, much less this?). He started to stroke him, so I went upstairs. When my mother came home, we all checked Ginny out. Ginny's tooth had broken. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? That questions remained in my head for days.
The next morning...12:00 p.m. hits....
I just came back from my piano class. My mother and father were checking Ginny's teeth out. His tooth just happened to shake, but didn't seem to want to come out. But since this was our first time, we panicked. And guess what our first action to this incident was! Our first action was to phone the vet.
So then, we checked and checked for phone numbers, and we drove and drove for places. Couldn't find anything! Ginny was going to die - I thought. But then, when we came home and checked it again, it was gone. We thought, hey! What does this mean?
So I checked on the internet for more info on Guinea Pig's teeth, and I happened to find a helpful site explaining all about it. I used this site as a resource, and took the info from it. I examined that..."Once a Guinea Pig's tooth is loose, and pulled out, it will then grow back! No matter how much times." My mother, my father, my brother, and I thought...WOW! We were so lucky! But that was when our next problem started. Ginny couldn't eat that much. What were we going to do now?
The next day...
The next day, my mother took all these fruits and peeled off pieces and pieces and fed him like crazy. He did of course grow fatter (hehe, just kidding), but it didn't grow back.
The next day...again...
We checked his teeth, and guess what? It was back in shape! Now listen up, if you were worrying about your guinea pig's teeth, I will then set up a new page in this site talking about their teeth especially because I myself, DID have nightmares!
The Confusion is not quite a story, nor long but it is something hilarious!~
Well, ever since we brought in Missy, Ginny cannot tell the difference between a girl or a guy with both Blackie and Missy. So he just well...purrs! No matter if it's a guy, he'll purr (At least, that's what I think!).
You see, I have this cousin who her rabbits over one day. Ginny did NOT know what it was. He didn't know whether it was a girl, or boy but he just well...purred! Why? He's into it! It's his time to shine :D.
Ok now, I got this new guinea pig by the name of, Missy (Which I have mentioned 20 000 times before), and Missy is a girl. Blackie is also a girl. Ginny purred for Blackie (Ginny is a boy), and Blackie purred for Missy! Isn't that just disgusting? Well, it happened.
Blackie was looking over at Missy, she purred. Ginny looked over at Missy and Blackie. He purred! So if you have any information regarding this suspicious behaviour, then please email me :S I'm getting the shivers!!!
Ginny wakes up in the morning. He then gets up from his cage and begins one biting on the bars. He begins to grit his teeth. He begins to squeak loudly. While all of this is happening, everyone else is busy curled up in bed sleeping. The only person who isn't, is Ginny.
At exactly 9:00 a.m. my father wakes up and takes Ginny downstairs for breakfast. (Wow! My dad wakes up early early just to spoil our little Ginny!!!) On the menu for Ginny's breakfast, is carrot daily! He eats carrots everyday. So my dad cuts a big enough sized for Ginny. But my dad also has to get other things ready, so he takes out other stuff and starts to cook.
Meanwhile...
Ginny starts to sniff the towel. He starts to grit his teeth. And then it came. Louder than a feather falling. Ginny starts to SQUAWK like crazy!! He squawks and squawks for his carrot non-stop. My dad says, "ok Ginny! Stop it now!" Does he listen? No. Ginny keeps on squawking and squawking. When my dad finally gives Ginny his carrot, he snatches it away, runs to find a perfect territory to rest his food on, and he starts to eat. when he's done, my dad would then take him up to his cage, and I would get up and get Blackie and Missy together, and take them downstairs. It then starts again...
Ginny's hair is long all the time! It's natural. But what do we have to do to prevent long hair? Why yes! We have to CUT IT!
Ginny always sits in his cage as little as a kitten, and acts innocent. Us mean people came barging into the room, and then we snatched Ginny and took him outside. We took the scissors, and started to cut off his hair. He hated it! He absolutely, positively hated this haircut. Do we care? No! It's good for his health, and it saves us more time to do other stuff instead of waiting for it to grow to cut more.
When we cut his hair, we often start off with the front. We then would snip some pieces, to match exactly from in between the index and middle finger. This would make his fur nice and soft. But Ginny thinks we're trying to cut him...but we are not! So when we finished, we would take a small-barbie sized brush, and would brush his fur so that all the leftover cuttings would fall out leaving nice and smooth fur! But his reactions are gruesome. He gets angry, and squeals like we snipped off his nail and it bled. Did any of that happen? No!
If you would like to know more about cutting a guinea pig's hair, then email me and I will give you the information!
Well actually, this is not exactly a story, it's just something interesting...
My dad usually CARES for Ginny more than the rest of us, so he always grabs Ginny first, and strokes him until Ginny sleeps. Ginny usually sleeps in many different manners. Here are some:
His body usually turns to the side, and his eyes close shut.
His whole self usually goes flat, and his head bends down, or straight.
He sometimes puts his foot out, and sleeps.
His eyes are sometimes open but he's still at his side.
But with everyone else, Ginny doesn't do any of that. He usually bites, and gets mad! Ugh, geez I wish I were my dad! Not really actually...
This was another one of Ginny's sad sad stories. And this is how it began...
One day, it was BURNING hot outside. I took Ginny, Blackie and Missy outside to eat grass in my backyard, because I'm nice :). But then, I noticed Ginny acting a little weird at first, but it was probably because he was hungry or something. So then, I was mad at Ginny for doing something, I don't quite remember, so I decided to favour Missy and Blackie. I plaeced Missy and Blackie into a box underneath a little shade, along with Grass on the side for them to eat whenever they get hungry. They began to fall asleep...while...
Ginny was sitting on the grass, and he was actually having fun by himself because he was mad at me too. What he had done before that got me angry at him, was that he began snapping at me for no reason and he began purring over Missy and Blackie and behaving bad. I then had to tell him not to do that. By then I hadn't known about Heat Stroke and so I put Ginny on the grass. He loves grass so he began running around. Unfortunately, I hadn't known that he was also getting hurt. The sun was directed close to him but not quite on him, so he then ran into the shade and began panting. I looked at him and thought, what's wrong? So then he ran to the deck and I chased after him. The deck hadn't been closed by then, so I ran to him and placed him next to the chair that Missy and Blackie were underneath. I got kinda scared incase Ginny had been suffering through something that I hadn't known of. But if he went near Blackie and Missy, which was in the shade, he would've purred over them and something bad would've happened. That was when I decided to place him somewhere else to see where he'd go. As I said before, I placed him on a hot hot surface, but really I just remembered, it wasn't as hot. It was actually warm. Ginny began running like normal, so I thought, he's all right!
That was when I picked him up again and felt him all over and said, "Something has to be wrong with you Ginny" and Ginny just looked at me squeaking. I then placed him in a towel and I was feeling sad for him. He acted something out there on the grass and I didn't know what it was and he seemed okay but really he wasn't. That is when my parents came home. I told them that he was acting quite weirdly, and what really happened was this:
As I took them in, Ginny was shivering, and his mouth was watering SOOOO badly. He was burning all over, and it was because he got the Heat Stroke disease. My mom had noticed it, and we raced them upstairs, and Blackie and Missy too had gotten it. As we placed them on the towel that was freezing cold, Ginny wouldn't move at all. I was soooo scared! Then afterwards, we fed him a lot of water and they say that Lettuce is good too because it has water in it that will cure them up.
It was the saddest moment of Ginny's life of what happened that day, but right after he cooled off, he then noticed Missy and Blackie right there, and he began to purr!!!! That was when we knew right away, GINNY'S LIFE WAS SAVED!
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