New Additions!

We have some new arrivals in the Young household!! Today we bought 2 baby guinea pigs, that Sam has named 'Coco' and 'Pop'. They are adorable!!

It started on Saturday, when Sam said he wanted to go to the petting zoo.. so I chucked both kids in the car and took him to Pets at home, (much cheaper than the petting zoo! Or so I thought..)  So we were looking around, Sam liked the rabbits, and the hamsters, and kept dragging me back to the fish.. (Fish don't survive in our house, we are fish killers no matter how hard we try to keep them alive) Then he spied the guinea pigs, and was quite fascinated. So I grabbed a leaflet about them for him to look at and thought no more about it.

Then he started asking for a guinea pig, and me being an animal lover and unable to say no, thought it would be quite a nice little addition to the household, so started work on Joe.. By Sunday night, he had given in, and we found a nice little hutch with run online, and ordered it. It was a bargain at £49.99 as we've seen hutches half the size at the shops for a lot more!! We then put it on the back burner, as the website said allow 3 working days for delivery, so we thought at least Sunday. But this morning, a parcel force van pulled up, and there it was! So Joe put it altogether, and since Sam (not me honest...) was so excited, we went out to buy our guinea pigs!

We have 2 Pets at home stores near us, the first only had 1 guinea pig left, and as guilty as I felt not buying him, we'd read they prefer to live with other guinea pigs, so went to the other, I had fingers firmly crossed all the way there as Sam was in the back of the car saying 'We're getting some guinea pigs mummy' and I didn't know what I was going to do if they didn't! But they had lots! The first guinea pig we picked was a grey one, and he was beautiful, but unfortunately when he had his health check they found an abscess on his face, and so they couldn't sell him and he was in for a trip to the vet! So instead we chose a tri-coloured who was very friendly and has become Pop, and a chocolate brown one who has become Coco.

I will get some photos uploaded tomorrow, as we are letting them chill out and settle in before we do too much with them! I am so excited for tomorrow!!