Just a short note

Oh dear. We haven't done a good job at keeping my blog up to date, have we? Or, to be more specific, my hooman hasn't helped me to keep my blog up to date. Humph. At first, once in a while I would come up with a few things I wanted to share with you guys, then Melon would say "Coke, I can't think about that right now." or "Coke, how can I do that while I'm feeling like this?" Well, how does she think I will feel if my blog isn't updated? Or how will my pals feel if they don't hear from me?

 And now a lot of stuff has happened, including some not very nice things happening to me. Melon says we'll bring you an update as soon as we can. (I hope so.) But for now?

I'm still here.

I'm still cute.

That's all.
Cocoa


Edit: We just found out about the loss of The OP Pack's Thunder. We are shocked. We meant no disrespect by this post, we had no idea. We are so sad to hear of his passing and know he will be sorely missed. Big, big hugs to the rest of the pack, including Kathie and Dad. Our thoughts are with you.

What do I eat?

I think it's time for another edu-ma-ca-tional post on guinea pigs!
Guinea pigs are both 'veggie-eaters' and 'very good eaters'. That's a fancy way of saying that we understand that food is the most important thing in life.

So, here is documentation of me eating some of my favourite foods, in ascending order of yumminess:

Crispy strips of yum

Green leafy yum

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Wispy bits of yum

Very commonly found hard stalks of yum

Sweet juicy yum with a very chewy bit

Orange crunchy yum!

 

"fresh grass" yum



PAR-SLEY!

Not pictured: celery, pellets, newspaper, spinach, orange, ice-cream containers, dried leaves, grapes, apple. 

Have you eaten anything good today?
Wheek out!
Cocoa

Relaxin'

Nothing like sitting down with a book and a snack after  b-a-t-h  spa time...

(And Melon says this could be the last of  b-a-t-h  spa time for a while! Whoohoo!)

Wheek out,
Cocoa

I'm back!

Wheek! Guess who. Yup, it's me!

... you do remember me, right?

Well, to refresh your memory...

Something like that, right? Black hair, white fuzz...

Oh yeah, that's right.

So first, welcome to my new followers! I read all your comments very carefully.

It's great you stopped by and I hope you stick around! My hooman Melon is gonna try to be a bit better with being my typist.

And to my faithful friends, sorry for not being around; I know I've got a lot from you guys to catch up on! Melon has missed you too. I think she's still got serious dog envy; she checks out every dog we see on the street! Humph!

 Why would she need anything other than me?

Puppy dog eyes: guinea pigs have them too

Wheek out,
Cocoa

Mexican mystery

Is it a burrito?


No, it's Cocoa's Spa Time!

 

Hope you all are having a nice day.

Wheek out,

Cocoa

Halp!

Wheek! So the other day, I was taken to see that funny man we visit sometimes. Hooman said it was just a 'follow-up' to see how her icky eye-poking*  has been going, so I wasn't worried. I was a bit hungry though, because Melon wouldn't feed me along the way. Something about 'pesto' and not being able to see my back teeth properly. Humph.

Here I am waiting for the funny man to look at my furs under a thing called a mi-cro-scope.

The man came back and he and Melon talked for a while. Blah blah blah, what do I care? Then it was over. Yay! Time to go home!

Little did I know.

… Melon has been giving me A BATH every three days since we got back! Can you believe it?! Uh-huh! With all the water, and the rubbing and everything! For some reason now she doesn't even wash off all the funny-smelling stuff straight away, she makes me sit for a while! She's taken this photo to make it look like I'm getting what she calls "the royal spa treatment" or something…

… but you know better, don't you?

Wheek! Wheeek!
Cocoa
 

  
*Melon has been poking at the skin under my eye every few days for a month now. I don't like it because that spot is really really itchy, but she says the stuff she's putting on it will make it less itchy. I dunno…

Guinea pigs 101

Sorry for the long time no wheek. My hooman Melon has this thing called Depression which means that she has down periods sometimes, and doesn't get around to doing things. She struggles with me sometimes too, but just like with that, she's gonna help me with my blog as much as she can.

So it's come to my attention that I have new blogfriends (hiii! *noses*) and that they might not know what a guinea pig is or how it works. So.

This is a guinea pig.

 This is a guinea pig in its natural state.

To some, this state is known as munching.

This is a guinea pig in action.

This is a guinea pig at rest. 

Oh, and there's the other natural state... pooping.









... Guess you don't need a photo of that.
(Let it suffice to say we are champion poopers.)

Hope you enjoyed your lesson!
Cocoa

P.S. Please check back tomorrow - a Very Important Post may be coming.