Our New Additions!

Several weeks ago, John told me that he really wanted to complete the Pets merit badge for Boy Scouts, but didn’t think that his dad would go along with the idea.  I told him to do some research on what kind of pet that he wanted, and then we would all talk about it.

He did what I asked and was very logical about his decision.  He thought that guinea pigs would be his choice, so we talked to Dan about it, and he was very excited about the idea!  John was surprised, but I wasn’t.  Dan is pretty much a soft-hearted kind of guy!    So then we had to do some searching as to where we could get guinea pigs–they’re pretty rare on the Prairie!  Dan did some internet searches in towns between ours and a town that he goes to regularly for his job, and he found just what we were looking for!  This week was his next scheduled trip, and on the way home, he stopped to pick up the stars of John’s merit badge project.

We are told that both of them are girls, but I know how that goes–we HOPE both of them are girls!  The kids chose names for them.  The closest one in the picture is Abilene, and the other one is Snickers.  They’re both pretty shy and scared at this point, but it looks like Abilene is the calmer of the two.  Snickers is pretty hyper!  It will be fun when they get a little tamer.  I had guinea pigs when I was growing up, and they do make pretty nice pets.

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