Showing posts with label xabi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xabi. Show all posts

Monday, August 24, 2015

Great Weekend!

So, despite having a stressful Friday, we had a great weekend.

It was sort of a rough start. We decided to back out of buying the car I SUPER want (my dream car, a Subaru Forester). It was the right decision. There were just too many red flags. Kind of a bummer, but better safe than sorry!

We took Xabi to the vet, and he is a healthy pig! The vet said that he's a little light, and if he loses more weight, she'd be worried, but that he isn't terribly underweight. She also said to not compare the different breeds of pigs (Xabi is Abyssinian, the other two are English). But just in case we need to force feed him, she gave us a nice syringe, so we're at least prepared! We concluded with the vet that it is possibly all of the fighting going on between Harvey and Biscotti that is causing Xabi to not get enough food. I redid the cage (AGAIN), and I think it's a better set-up. For more rambling about guinea pigs, you can visit http://threelittlepigpigpigs.blogspot.com/



Another thing we did is re-pot a plant that my grandma gave me when we first moved here. It was 4 different plants in 1 pot. It looked really nice all together, but recently it has not been doing too well. I had already repotted it to a bigger pot, but we decided to just separate them. It's kind of fun having a bunch of different pots around the apartment. I hope it didn't stress them out too much. It was nice to actually DO something. I mean, we cleaned the apartment up and everything, and I made a little grid shelf system for the pig stuff, but it felt good to do something outside. Even if it was just on the deck.

This is when we first moved. It's really small there! I'll upload the separate pots once I get home and can take pictures. I look forward to the day that I can have a real porch or sunroom for my potted plants! 

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Pigs in a Basket



I put the pigs in a laundry basket, with their new (but already dirty) Goodwill fleece blankie,  while I cleaned their cage. They were really freaked out at first. Harvey burrowed, like he usually does, but Scott and Xabs stayed on top of the blanket and then unwittingly were stepping on Harvey, which caused him to squeal like crazy, which made them get panicked, so then they wore themselves out and all napped. Biscotti was laying down until the camera zoomed in and put him on high alert!

                                     Xabi sleeps weird. He puts his entire head sideways. Which I guess isn't weird for humans, but it looks really weird when he does it.

Biscotti curled up after getting worn out.



Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Guinea Pigs



Biscotti.
Full name: Chief Engineer Biscotti Pippin
Nicknames: Biscoff, Biscoffee, Bisquick, Bizniss, Pepto-Bismal
Approximate Date of Birth: March, 2013
Description: American Tricolor
Hobbies: Asserting dominance via "rumble-strutting".
Favorite Food: Green Peppers

Harvey.
Full name: Harvard
Nicknames: Sweet-pea, Bugaboo, Houdini
Approximate Date of Birth: March, 2013
Description: American Tortoiseshell with White
Hobbies: Burrowing
Favorite Food: Cilantro


Xabi (Chob-ee)
Full name: Xabi "Chops" Alonso Kazoo
Nicknames: Zuzu, Rufio, Dozer, Xabster, Ooga-Booga, Kramer
Approximate Date of Birth: October, 2013
Description: Abyssinian Tortoiseshell
Hobbies: Climbing on top of things
Favorite Food: Lettuce