Piggle babies!

I am sure that most of you have already seen the pictures, but heres the story!

I like looking at the cute animals on craigslist, and i had been looking for some rodents for a while...i thought at first that i wanted rats, but that never seemed to work out quite right. Rats are expensive here on the island, if you buy them at the pet store they are like 10.00$! They dont use them for feeders here, since there are no snakes on the island, i assume you are not allowed to have snakes as pets. Anyway, i found this guy on craigslist that was giving away guinea pigs. At first i wrote to him in hopes of having one or two little pigs. He replied to my email and said that his landlord was coming over and he had about FORTY pigs that he needed to be rid of right away! I was like umm...well  maybe not that many, but i bet i could take about ten! So we went to meet the guy in the next few days, he brought a big box of baby guinea pigs. We picked out the ones we wanted, i think we ended up with about 12. We could have had as many as we wanted, but do you know how much 12 guinea pigs EAT??? They are so cute though, right now we have them all out in our yard under the overhang of the roof so they dont get wet when it rains. We have them seperated into girls and boys, so we dont end up with 12 thousand of them. We feed them all kinds of stuff, they are vegetarians so they like grass and apples and sometimes carrots. Lettuce is their favorite, but they love grass too.(cheaper than lettuce!) I think that i am going to start giving away a few of them, 12 is a few too many. They are fun to watch play together though, and all trying to eat out of one bowl! I dont have any videos of them yet, that will be next though. I do have some cute pictures that you can see though.

This is my moms favorite little pig, she dosnt have a name yet. She is tiny, or she was when we first got the pigs. They are growing already, we have had them for almost a month i think...

 This is them waiting nicely for their turn at the water bottle. Haha,pigs are not so nice at times, they fight over things. GR

 This guy looks like he has had plenty water, he is soaking wet!

 Moms favorite again. There will be many pictures of this one. For some reason i keep trying to spell that word as "Pigtures"....

 Here you can see the postal box that they had in there for a while until it got wrecked. The apples that they like to eat...

 Aww how cute, they are sharing.

 They like apples better than carrots for some reason.

 i like this picture because it looks almost artistic, even though it was just the camera focusing on the wrong thing,

 Yum, grass!

 One time i saw a couple of pigs do that lady and the tramp spagetti thing, where one pig had one end of the grass and another had the other end and they were both eating it. That was funny.:)

 The elusive black pig, dosnt seem to be many pictures of this one, he is cute though.

 What cuties! This is the lineup, everyone comes out when they hear food.

 Two piggles on the girls side, the one on the left is the biggest one of them all.

 Moms pig again.

 This is patches, he is one of my favorites, also one of the few who has a name! :)

 This is Mouse, he is albino, completely white with little pink eyes!

 They are supposed to be vegetarians but they like to taste people sometimes. haha :)

 This guy is one of the calico ones, hes got lots of colors on him.

I think that is most of them, now you met all my new little pets! They are just babies for now, i will keep posting pictures as they grow up. They are pretty friendly, they dont really want to be picked up but once you catch them they just sit there. Stay tuned for updates on these guys! :)