Sarah's Halloween Costume

She thought the hot dog was a giant toy strapped to her back and wanted to play with it.

Sarah's New Pajamas!

Cathy saw these at Target for under 10 bucks, and she just *had* to get them for Sarah. Sarah LOVES them and does not want us to take them off. It must be keeping her toasty! Bonus: The white part glows in the dark, which has kept us from tripping on her in the middle of the night.

Guinea Pig Update

The pigs seem to be doing fine, despite the bag incident. We just watched them carefully for several days, and nothing seems to be wrong. The vet is as surprised as we are. He asked if we were absolutely sure that they ate the bag.

Unless the Boogieman or a Gremlin came in, ate it, and framed the pigs, the PIGS ATE THE BAG.

I'm just relieved that we did not have to get the fancy vet treatment. I hope the pigs learned their lesson! (But I somehow doubt it...:)

Guinea Crisis 2009: Bag Edition

So the guinea pigs ate aproxomity half a Dillon's plastic bag sometime between 10 PM and 6 AM this morning...awesome. We'd put the bag by the door, filled with things that Kirk needed for work today.

A panicked call to the vet revealed that we could get a guinea pig's stomach pumped for *insert obscenely high figure here*, so we're doing the "watch and wait" method. The vet said that it's entirely possible they'll pass it on their own, as guinea pigs chew things down pretty small. They're in separate cages- we'll be watching for signs of distress over the next few days.

Sometimes I wish that our employers had a direct deposit to the vet option- it'd be very convenient for us! :)

Cross your fingers that everything goes well and does not involve costly vet intervention.

Boston Flee Party is GO!

We've started our Boston Blog. Check it out!

RIP Zippy (2004-2009)

We had to put down Zippy this afternoon.

She had another stone in her urethra, and the doctor said that when they come back that quickly, it will likely be an ongoing issue. She was in a lot of pain, so we decided to let her go.

They gave her an anesthetic so she would go to sleep, and let me pet her until she fell asleep. Then they took her in the back for the final part, where she would actually die.

Zippy was one of our "surprise" pigs from Pitter Pat, who we had not realized was pregnant when we brought her home. She's also one of the first pigs we were able to name. She zoomed around the cage so much that we just had to name her "Zippy!" She zipped.

We are glad that we were with her the day she was born, and we were sad to let her go on today. She was a good pig.

Boston Flee Party

We're heading to Boston this Friday, and we'll be blogging about our adventure here. We hope to see you there! :)