I could feel butterflies in my stomach. I was so excited, and also a bit nervous. My Dad stopped the car in front of a semi-ramshackle building called "The Best Little Rabbit Rodent Ferrret House". We stepped out of the car, and I quickly walked over to the door of the building. It was a crooked door, with some white paint peeling off of it. I liked the way it looked. As we entered, I looked around at all the different supplies and all the animals in cages. It was a warm, cozy place that I felt at home in. We went right over to the humongous cage where the guinea pigs were. They made adorable little chattering sounds, and noises that sounded like little bubbles. They looked hopefully up at us. There were a few white crested ones, a Tri-colored one, and many others. THere were 19 guinea pigs in all. So many to choose from! They were all so amicable. I was enamoured with all the charming guinea pigs. Every one of the guinea pigs had the opposite of a stentorian voice...they were so quiet, and had such a high voice, making their little bubble sounds.
The sweet smell of hay was everywhere in the adoption center. I loved the smell. I loved everything about the adoption center...the smell, the sounds, the animals there....
The hard part about getting a guinea pig was choosing between all 19 of them. I got to sit in a enclosed pen to play with them, and to see whose personality I liked the most. First, I got to sit with a big girl guinea pig...I believe her name was Jasmine. She was so entertaining, and I just loved her personality. She was just so hard to pick up, because she was really fast, running around. The texture of her fur was kind of rough near the front, and near the back, pretty soft. She had hair growing both ways. In the front, it grew towards her head, and in the near back, it grew backwards. She had really long hair that would need to be brushed daily, and cut sometimes.
I got to play with another, smaller guinea pig named Minnie, next. We had Jasmine and Minnie in the same pen. I thought that they would be the perfect pair, but then they got aggressive a couple of times. I was really dissapointed about that. I couldn't take both Jasmine and Minnie and home. So I chose another guinea pig to play with; his name was Sherlock. All three of them were in the cage together. Minnie and Sherlock seemed to make really good pair, although I really, really wanted to take Jasmine home. It just couldn't work out that way, and my sister Adora really wanted me to adopt Sherlock. I really wanted to adopt Minnie. I really, really wanted to adopt Jasmine, too, but there was no choice except to adopt Minnie and Sherlock. Minnie and Sherlock really liked eachother, so I thought that would be the best choice for them. Now I know that I was right. Minnie and Sherlock lead very happy lives together today.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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