My guinea pig gave birth a week ago

[moneyshredderofdeath 414]

It's a long story as to how.

 

In April I got two piggies, Mercury and Mars. Both were assumed to be female, and I got them from a very good breeder, but turns out it can be tough to determine the gender of very young pigs. (I also got them earlier than usual because both my old guinea pigs had recently passed away. I was very lonely and needed new piggie company) Thus it turned out Mercury was a boy, and got Mars pregnant before anyone realized. He's neutered now.

 

Mars gave birth on July 27. Two were lethals (all white with defective teeth) so had to be put down, which was rough but the best thing to do, but it isn't all sad. Mars is doing great, and the other two are also happy and healthy. They're going to be sold eventually because of a lack of room, but they'll be going to good homes. =3 For now the house has been calling them Trinket (which is the name of one of the cats... their fur is very similar) and Hershey.

 

I only brought this up now rather than earlier because I got a picture I took a few days ago on my computer just now. The posing was at the perfect moment:

 

 

Left to Right: Trinket, Mars, Hershey

[Neikos 968]

Awww! So cute.

 

 

But I guess they were smaller earlier?

[Midnightive 458]

I;d love on but i live in the UK and my cat thinks everything is a play thing. I hope you find good homes for the cute. Also I have no idea what Lethals mean... so to google!

[Chill Mists (Chilly) 801]

D'aaaaaaaawwww, so cute :3. I have two guinea pigs, I love guinea pigs, they're such lovely things :3.

[Dasher 119]

They're so cute. I have two guinea pigs they're both male. I don't get why they are such an underrated pet I mean I didn't even know they existed two or three years ago.

Edited August 5, 2012 by Dasher

[Rainycakes 30]

I love my guinea pigs! They're so gentle and cute. They run around making these burpy popping noises and then purr at each other. And when you hand them some fresh bell pepper, they purr at it and nomnomnom.

 

Yours are adorable! It's funny how cavies pop out of their mom completely furred, and within an hour or two are walking around eating from a food bowl or drinking some water.

[OptimisticNeighsayer 478]

I had guinea pigs once with a "surprise birth" story as well. My family originally only had one guinea pig, Treazy, which we got for my sister's birthday. We had thought we bought her when it was said that she hadn't gone past her puberty yet, but 70 days later, which strangely coincided with the gestation period of guinea pigs, we had a new guinea pig in the house. Sas, as we called her, was perfectly healthy and lived for several years but sadly died before her mother (although Treazy followed soon afterward). Cute things, they were.

[moneyshredderofdeath 414]

Awww! So cute.

 

 

But I guess they were smaller earlier?

 

They were just about as large as they are in the picture; maybe a weee bit smaller. Guinea pigs are interesting in that when they're born, they're just like normal guinea pigs with fur and all except they're smaller (obviously) and they need to feed off their mommy first.

[Drehgunklew 136]

Oh god they are so cute!!! I have 5 females :3 Ninja, Fluff, Junior, Osbourne and Nemi. It's easy to check the gender on piggies. Just look under their belly and check for 2 teats under all the fur.

[AngryGamer432 155]

So cute. I could never take care of a guinea pig but we have a cat that I play with some of the time.

[SugarSprinkledFox 69]

Oh my God thay are so cute. I wish I had Guine Pigs, but my parents wont let me have one. Ugh.

 

Anyway, I hope they're doing okay. c:

[Verde Wub 52]

I know it seems odd, but I used to have baby albino corn snakes, and they are quite adorable, and very low maintenance! And this isn't me, but they were this small when I got them!

[Creamy Arty 6,252]

Felicitations! One can never have too many cute little balls of fluff. I always wanted guinea pigs or something similar when I was little but mom was always terrified of them.