Here knitty, knitty!

knitting meetup

Tomorrow night is the Santa Clara Knitting Meetup, and unless I totally space out and forget it's happening, I am going to go. I've wanted to go for just ages and I've not been able to get there for whatever reason until now. Yeah for social knitting!

In other news, my guinea pigs are going to the vet on Thursday. They've got some funky skin thing going. At first I thought Cary was biting Errol, so I separated them for a few days. After a few days though, I noticed that Errol had fresh "bite marks" so I realized it had to be something else. I checked Cary out pretty throughly and found a couple of the little marks on him too, and when I brushed him he shed a larger than normal amount of his crazy hair. I figure they both have whatever it is, so I put them back together in the same cage and they were soooo happy to see each other! The skweeked and played and jumped and sang and generally partied for the rest of the afternoon. I called the vet and got them the first appointment that the vet had available- Thursday morning. I hope whatever it is is minor and easily treatable!

Errol has never been to the vet. Cary's been to the vet twice. The first time was when he ate a piece of a Doritos bag that I didn't realize was on the floor where he was running around, and he had to have a guinea pig laxative to help it pass through without doing too much damage to his innards.

The second time was last summer when he stopped eating. I had to feed him a hay smoothie (hay pureed with water) from a little syringe every couple of hours round the clock till he started eating again. Which took two weeks! I had to take him everywhere and I was staggering around like a drunk from sleep exhaustion. The little turkey loved the attention, and I swear he was perfectly healthy except for not eating. He'd skweek like a parrot when I'd come near with the smoothie, and just kick back and grab the syringe with both paws and practically nurse like a baby.

The vet gave me all sorts of ideas to try to get him to start eating on his own, but nothing worked for ages. I tried solid and pureed fruit and vegetables, yogurt, baby food, and applesauce in every combination you can imagine. Eventually I tried squirting the hay smoothie over the green pellets he normally eats and that turned out to be the winner. I wish I'd thought to try that first....

posted by KackieC @ 11:41 PM