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I'm so glad you're getting your house in order!! I really dislike unpacking after a move, but it feels wonderful once it's finished! Decorating is so much fun, too. :-)

I'm happy that the cockatiels are settled in! :-)

Wow!!! That's awesome! I'll have to watch it!!

Don't lose hope. Several years ago Zach and I reunited a Senegal parrot with her owner, after she had been missing for a month. :-)

I'm praying for a good outcome!

I'd pay him if I could afford it, believe me! He's worth his weight in gold!! :-)

What kind of algae, Aaron? Ghost shrimp are pretty good algae eaters, if your cichlid will leave them alone. LOL

No pictures yet, because my phone died...

I was reading about piggie behavior, and found out that they like to "arrange" fabric and ribbons...so I cut a piece of cotton fabric and tied it to his cage. Then I put his coffee can hide underneath it.

I noticed that he was having a grand time going in and out from underneath his fabric, so I let him be for a few minutes.

When I checked on him a minute ago, true to piggie form, he had folded the ends inside of his coffee can, effectively wrapping it in blue cotton! Too funny!

Okay, I'm on my desktop computer now...here's the whole story.

I went to the horse auction on Sunday for the sole purpose of buying used halters at the tack sale. I'm out of spare halters, because I've sent all of them with the rescue horses. Well, there were NO used halters. Zero. So, I bought one new halter and lead rope for Cami, a used saddle pad and a leather hole punch.

Just before the tack sale started, an employee carried in a plastic bin and set it on a shelf. The bin was translucent so you couldn't really see what was inside, just that it was some sort of animal. Then the employee brought the animal out, and was holding it. It was an adorable white guinea pig! She said he was definitely a male, and I asked how old he is. She didn't know - she had just gotten it the week before and decided guinea pigs weren't her thing, so she brought him to the sale. Someone else asked what his name is, and she said "Ummm...Squeaky!"

I knew absolutely nothing about keeping guinea pigs, except that they're rodents and absolutely adorable...so what did I do when he came up? I bid on him...and won! He's not exactly a pile of used halters....but that's okay.

Since I knew nothing about guinea pigs, on the way home (it was a 3 hour drive, and I was the passenger) I did a bunch of Google searches. Thank goodness for Google and smartphones!!! I think the most interesting thing I learned was that they shouldn't have frozen, cooked or canned veggies because they lose a lot of their nutrition, and as we know canned veggies are loaded with salt. Also, potatoes are toxic to guinea pigs.

My poor hubby almost divorced me when I told him, but he took one look and decided to forgive me. LOL However, he did NOT approve of the name "Mr. Squeaky", so after much discussion his permanant name is Pork Chop. It's a very fitting name, because Pork Chop LOVES to eat...he is definitely NOT a picky eater!

Here are some pictures of Pork Chop: