Good morning world...

[fajrdrako]

There are few sounds in this world more pathetic than the cries of a guinea pig who wants her breakfast.

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[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww~

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

She was fed. Rather quickly. Before the budgies, this time. They're just loud - she is heartbreaking!

[nuptse.livejournal.com]

lol! true.
My Degu Frak starts his bitching for dinner as soon as I walk in the house, and if I'm especially late home he'll bitch all the way through the first couple mouthfulls.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

They do like to make us follow their timetables. And woe to us if we're late with a morsel of anything!

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

*pets and coos*

[nacbrie.livejournal.com]

A rat who wants his dinner? The squeaking is pitiful, I tell you.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I can imagine! It's probably much the same - though I suspect the guinea pig is louder.

[nacbrie.livejournal.com]

Does the guinea pig do the 'enormous eyes, kicked puppy' expression, too?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, she has it down to an art.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

She'll get more petting and cooing when I get home tonight.

[acampbell.livejournal.com]

I hope you fed her!!!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I've never heard one, but my husband has imitated it for me, and that was certainly pathetic!

However, I would put my pug, waking up at 2AM and not seeing anybody else awake and howling pitifully, up against ANY pathetic noise.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I will -- happily -- take your word for it.

Although a pair of cats who think you should have been home three hours previous to feed them can sound pretty pathetic, too.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Every pet has its priority - and it's usually the same thing.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes - dogs can certainly communicate every nuance of pathos.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Of course I did. Some things aren't optional!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Well, if I was utterly dependent on someone else for when I got to eat, I'd probably make it a priority, too [g].

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I wouldn't choose pellets and hay. But the bok choy and the carrots, that I could get into.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't choose cat food, either. Dry or canned. But I guess if it's all you know, and you'd starve otherwise (I feed them Very Little in the way of people food, and I don't feed them from the table at all), and there's not much else exciting going on in your little day, well...

They lead such rough lives. Really [g].

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Cute icon!

I'm not sure what the highlight of Squeaker's day is, but the arrival of carrot bits has to be right up there at the top.

Cleaning her cage is not the highlight of my day, otherwise I might get a guinea pig all my own. Adorable creatures.

I just learned the phrase 'subsistence affluence'. I think Squeaker lives in a state of 'pet affluence'.

Say whatinthewhonow?

[golden-hinde.livejournal.com]

You have a guinea pig?

Re: Say whatinthewhonow?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Not on a permanent basis. At this precise moment, I have a guinea pig, if you interpret the word 'have' as meaning 'sharing premises with a house guest'. Squeaker is staying with me while her family is on holiday in southern Ontario.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

They're my own personal yin-yang symbol.

I just learned the phrase 'subsistence affluence'. I think Squeaker lives in a state of 'pet affluence'.

So do the guys (Morgan is the white one, Linnet is the orange one).

Er, what's subsistence affluence?

Re: Say whatinthewhonow?

[golden-hinde.livejournal.com]

Ah, how exciting. How long do you 'have' her for? Can you post a picture of her?

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Oh, my!

One of them would be the sound of a tiger-cat who thinks that you should be awake because she is and the sun is up, never mind you work evenings, and she thinks the cleverest thing she can do to entice you to get up and play with her is to climb the door-jamb and get up on top the door with her little back an inch from the ceiling, and sit there till you come get her down. The sound of the tiger-cat climbing the hardwood door-jamb, is what I was thinking of. It is, by now, after many repetitions, unmistakeable to my ears.

How long till the little one goes home again...? What do the budgies think of her?

Re: Say whatinthewhonow?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Squeaker went home today - Saturday. Her family picked her up and I waved sadly farewell. Not that I won't see her again, but it might be a while.

There's a picture of her here (http://fajrdrako.livejournal.com/754920.html) and another one here. (http://ca.geocities.com/eholden0916@rogers.com/fajrdrako/060813squeaker3.jpg)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The budgies pretty much ignored Squeaker. She was on the ground. They are in the air. Plenty of room for creatures to pay no attention to each other. On the other hand, maybe they were singing in harmony and I didn't notice.

Squeaker went home this afternoon. Things seem quiet now. Quiet, with three budgies? Well... relatively quiet.