So if you have read any of my posts before, you know that we started with one little sweet guinea pig named Kevin, and ended up with 22 guinea pigs from Kevlina! I have managed to get rid of several of our little piggies, but we still have 6 that live with us and their loving family! The family consists of 8 kids a mom and dad, a St. Bernard and a kitty that actually loves his guinea pig family and is caught quite often sleeping in the cage with them!
A couple of nights ago we had a torrential thunderstorm with sheets of rain and 60-70 mph gusts of wind, it was more like a mini hurricane rather than a thunderstorm. It woke most of us up, and as my hubby and I were watching our trees bend over in half to the wind one of my sons comes downstairs and says "MOM!! the guinea pig cages blew over and the pigs are running all over the yard!" My immediate thought was "Born Free!!" but when we went out to make sure that none of them were hurt, I could hear these little tiny "wee wee wee's" coming from their hiding places! So "Born Free" went out the backdoor, and "Catch me if you can" started to play!
So at 3 in the blessed AM, Tommy and I picked up our weapons of choice, umbrella's, and took off after the pigs! The boy pigs were only interested in the fact that the girl pigs were out and this was their chance to do a little guinea pig courting....they were like little horn dogs chasing my poor little girl pigs all over the place just to....well you know! So as we were capturing most of them in their little pig huts, we realized that Snowball, our hook toothed, albino, blind, deaf, special needs piggy was no where to be found! Now this did make both of us sad, so Tommy got a flash light and in the torrential sheets of rain took off to look for her! I was trying to eye up the area but could not see her, when all of a sudden Tommy yells "found her!" She was lodged up against the house about 60 feet from the back yard, I guess her natural instincts when on overdrive, and she was completely safe from the wind and the rain! I grabbed a beach towel that was conveniently "not put away" and Tommy grabbed her and gave her to me, I dried her off, we reassembled one of the blown over cages and put it under the house so we could start catching pigs and drying them and putting them in the DRY cage!!
After finding Snowball, the real work started, we now had to get the pigs that were in their huts to the dry cage under the house!!! This is where the fun began! Tommy started chasing them out in the backyard, they were running all over the place once we took the huts off of them. As Tommy would catch one, I was standing under the overhang with the towel, he would throw them through the air, I would catch the flailing, squealing pig, dry him or her off and place it in the newly put together home! One by one we caught, threw, caught again, dried and housed these little guys and gals! They were so cute as they shook off the water, licked their fur and then YELLED for some hay!!! Yes we caught them all, and now we are hoping that none of the girls are pregnant again! For all concerned, they are safe, dry, well fed, and just waiting for us to put them back in the grassy area so they can eat themselves into oblivion!
THE END.....for now!!!!!
