Hi, i got a little guinea pig day before yesterday, shes around 12 weeks old.
She is very very shy, she keeps shaking and wants to stay in her igloo whenever im around. shes a texel, so she has long curly fur but when i tried to stroke her, it feels like she has two fur knots on either side, which cant feel nice. but when i try to touch her she starts to chatter her teeth. so i don’t know how to cut her knots off without frightening her. or should i wait until shes used to me more?

she only seems to come out of her igloo to eat when i go to class or when im asleep. ive tried hand-feeding her a variety of fresh foods today and she only had a nibble of an apple and she just kept turning away from me. so i put the foods in her bowl and left her to it. then all of a sudden, i heard a noise which sounded a bit like a monkey’s "ooh ooh ah ah" its the first time ive ever heard it so im not sure what this sound is called. but when i went to go check her she was still in her igloo with her nose poking out. this is my first guinea pig as you can tell!

PS shes not going to be a lonely piggy for much longer, as shes getting a cage mate in a few weeks, a boy piggy had been neutered at the shelter and they’re waiting until its safe before they allow me to take him.

Easy points for best answer!

MANY THANKS EVERYONE!! xx

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just a few days ago i adopted a guinea pig from Petsmart, and the lady who helped me told me that i can just keep one by itself if i spend lots of time with it. but now im looking online and they say that its best if you keep 2 together so they don’t get bored. the thing is i don’t know how much time you need to spend with them everyday so they don’t get lonely. and because im in school still, i don’t have a whole bunch of time to play with him.

so my main questions are:
*how much time should you spend with them a day?
*should i go ahead and get another guinea pig?
and if you guys have anymore tips you could give me on keeping my little guinea pig happy, i would really like that!

Thanks

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Sorry it’s so long!

Okay, so my brother-in-law "rescued" a dog, Spenser. But . . . My brother-in-law never took care of Spenser. So my parents and I took Spenser in. Then my brother-in-law stopped working. As soon as his little baby girl came along. Apparently, to him it’s perfectly fine for a little girl to live in apartments all her life. Cheap apartments at that. So then my brother-in-law decided that Spenser needs to move to Florida where we’ll never see Spenser again! And only a month and one day after my guinea pig passed away! Spenser’s half chuahuah and half dachsund, and today when I saw a dachsund, I started bawling and worked up a major migraine and a fever from crying so much. And later today I just collapsed on the floor, crumpled up and cried. And my dog, Mar Bellana, loved to play with Spenser, and she refuses to eat or drink much at all, because she’s depressed! And last night when my cousin tried to pet Mar Bellana, I attacked him and said "You’ll act like she’s your’s then rip her away from me like the souless monster my brother-in-law is!" And I started crying. I now have thoughts of suicide, but I’m also way too over-protective of my animals, so I don’t try suicide, which gives me migraines, fevers, etc. I’m also going through puberty, and I’m majorly moody, which doesn’t help. At all.

And when my neice (as I mentioned earlier), Sara, came along, I became suicidal because no one paid attention to me. I choked myself in front of my parents, threatened to run away, said I’d kill myself after I killed them, etc. I was a mess. Now I love her to bits . . . I just thought I’d say that in case it mattered . . .

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I’ve done tons of research on guinea pigs, and I really feel like guinea pigs are the best pet for both my family and me. However, my parents don’t agree. I’ve sat down and outlined all of the care needed for guinea pigs, where to adopt, costs, etc, as well as written up well over twenty pages on their behavior, sounds, and needs. They don’t seem to be budging much. I’m a straight A student in all honors classes, very responsible, and right now I’m stuck trying to think of more ways to convince them. There’s not any deals I can strike with them, because I’m expected to get chores done and get straight A’s without reward. Right now their two biggest concerns are:

1. I’ll get bored of it in a few months. I know I won’t get bored with them, otherwise I wouldn’t ask for one because I realize they can live for a long time, but I don’t know how to convince them otherwise. I admit I do have a short attention span, and lose interest in toys quickly, so that’s why they have this fear. However, guinea pigs are not toys, so I know I’ll love them for as long as they live.

2. What to do with them when we travel. This is one that stumps me; I’ve looked into guinea pig sitters, but couldn’t find any in the phone book. We travel a lot during summer; and my dad says my friends won’t appreciate if I drop them off at their house for a month or so (especially since I plan on building them a C&C Cage, or whatever they’re called).

Anyways, I would appreciate any suggestions for how I can convince them and overcome the above two obstacles. If they don’t give in soon, I might just have to respect their answer and acknowledge that it is their house, but I feel I can try a little bit longer before I cross the line. Thanks in advance for all the answers

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I have this friend who hates this girl named Becky for something that happened in 7th grad(we’re freshman now). Supposedly Becky stole her boyfriend that she was "in love" with and they were best friends at the time. I don’t even know. That’s my friend’s side.

Anyways, this year, Becky’s in my geometry class. I was talking to my friend about the band All Time Low and me & Becky started talking about their concerts.

I texted my friend saying "I don’t know why you hate Becky so much. She’s nice to me" and she started calling me an idiot and how much she hated Becky. And how Becky stole her boyfriend that she was in love with. She was TWELVE in 7th grade. Supposedly she was in love with this guy.

So then, I was like "You were 12 Stephanie. I don’t think you know what love is at 13" She got really pissed off and was talking about how she never liked me and called me a "clutch pig" or whatever.

Why would she get mad about something so tiny? Me & Becky had ONE conversation and she goes off on me. That’s not the first conversation I had with her…I asked her if we had homework in geometry over the weekend in once. That’s about it. Should I just ignore her texts entirely?

She ALWAYS gets pissed off for something so stupid. Once, she was talking about how I was a poser, emo and crap. And I told her I was just ME. And she got really pissed off and didn’t text me for a few days.

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MERCUTIO: O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Over men’s noses as they lie asleep;
Her wagon spokes made of long spinners’ legs,
The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;
Her traces, of the smallest spider web;
Her collars, of the moonshine’s wat’ry beams;
Her whip, of cricket’s bone; the lash, of film;
Her wagoner, a small grey-coated gnat,
Not half so big as a round little worm
Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid;
Her chariot is an empty hazelnut,
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love;
O’er courtiers’ knees, that dream on curtsies straight;
O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees;
O’er ladies’ lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
Sometimes she gallops o’er a courtier’s nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig’s tail
Tickling a parson’s nose as ‘a lies asleep,
Then dreams he of another benefice.
Sometimes she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon
Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two
And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
That plats the manes of horses in the night
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled much misfortune bodes.
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage.
This is she!
who knows what act & scene this is from?

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I Have 2 types of bedding, I have Cedar (I heard that that was bad for them) and I have some litter mixed with with ripped up egg carton. Which one is best? I Am testing egg carton with her now but is that dangerous? If so please tell me! I would kill myself if anything bad happened to my little Daisy-Mae :]

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My ex boyfriend Tony just said he dont know what hes gunna do and he probly wants to be with me. Tony just goin through a hard time right now cuz his guinea pig past away and stuff….The fight started when he said he wants to go to Japan wen he gets older and go to college there and he said "Alexis you know we aint gunna be together forever" and i said i been knowing that…i said that just to get back at him. I dont know if he ment it or if he was just mad…But he needs time to think and tony dont really get girls….im not sayin hes ugly or anything but girls are not really attracted to Tony but i am cuz hes so freakin cute! Girls dont like him cuz he has a little mustache…a few hairs on the upper lip, THATS ALL! and girls just aint attracted to that i guess…..all girls make fun of his mustache and say for christmas there gunna buy him shaving cream and a razor. So i know he aint dumpin me for another girl….He just needs time cuz hes a little mad and sad. So i got my friends to talk to him for me and see what he says to them and all of the answers is IDK from him so ima just let him think and wait and be patient…:/

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A lawyer driving on a highway notices a crowd on an intersection.
With his urge to get into the thick crowd and see the action, he
shouted, "I’M THE SON OF THE VICTIM." Upon hearing this, the people made way for him to get through.
There he saw, bloody and helpless lying on the street …a pig
bumped by a trailer truck!
—————————
Wife: Let’s break up! I can’t leave with you anymore!
Husband: Ok! I will have this house!
Wife: Ok! My farm!
Husband: My car!
Wife: Do not take the driver with you! He is mine a long time!
Husband: No, he is mine!!!!
——————–
Little Sally came home from school with a smile on her face and told her mother, “Frankie Brown showed me his weenie today!”
Before the mother could raise a concern, Sally went on to say, “It reminded me of a peanut.”

Relaxing with a hidden smile, Sally’s Mom asked, “Really small, was it?”

Sally replied, “No… salty!”

Mom fainted.

Star id You Liked It. Thanks

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My cousin who is 10 has a best friend who comes over often who is the same age, recently she has put on alot of weight and shes been peeing and pooping on herself unexpectedly. She also seems really stressed out all the time and shes being really clingy to me. Also, not to sound like a pig or anything but she’s developing breasts but that could just have to do with her age. I’m 17 and I live with my aunt and my cousin and I’m not sure how to handle something like this. I figure I should try and avoid her because I’d be the first person suspected of doing something to her but I want to make sure that’s what it is. Is there any other explanation that would make sense? Like an infection or something?
To answer the person who said to ask her…

Do you really think it’s a good idea for a 17 year old guy to ask a 10 year old girl if she’s been mollested?

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