This is already old news to some, but one of Lisa’s guinea pigs passed away on Sunday.  Guinea pigs are of course nowhere near the longest-lived animals one can have as a pet, but even by pig standard’s Chloe’s stay with us was remarkably short.  She was purchased on St. Patricks’s day in 2007, just under 16 months ago.

We don’t know what happened, but can say Chloe was never the healthiest pig.  She was spunky for the first few months we had her–Lisa was able to use her as an illustration to me of what popcorning means–but after that aged in her behavior rather quick.  She tended to be slow and skittish, and hid a lot.  Late Saturday night she started digging out a space in her cage, and early Sunday afternoon crawled into it, laid down, and passed within an hour.

Lisa has sworn off new pigs for the time being.  (She’s had a total of 15 of them over the years.)  I believe her, but it may be worth checking back in on the pig situation a few months from now.