Sunday 14 February 2010

The joy of pets

How romantic.
A shared bath, a jug of Pimms...
... a kitchen timer, a bottle of antispetic shampoo and a scabby South American rodent.

Guinea pigs.

They are lovely pets for children. Cute, easy to handle and, though quite prolific in the bowel offerings department, at least they're of the compact variety that are relatively easy to clean up.

However, they can also be rather prone to skin infections.

And, if they get one, you have to bath them.

That's right, bath a guinea pig.

Did I say they were easy to handle?

That's in their unsoapy, unterrified state.

They're still cute though.

Especially when you get to cuddle them dry.

3 comments:

  1. Oh poor little pig! Looks relieved to be out of the tub.

    We are babysitting our neighbour's 2 guinea pigs this week - they are pretty cute!

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  2. oooohhh sooooooo cute!!!

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  3. soooo cute indeed, poor little thing x

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