User blog:BlazingLeopard/It's been nice having you around Twiglet...

R.I.P Twiggy
Gosh, it's been a long time since we got you, Twiglet...

Today, my guinea pig Twiglet, died of old age. She was six years old (which is, like, eighty in guinea pig years). I still remember thinking about her name in the car on the way home. We got her with sister Pringle. We spent the entire journey home thinking of a name. I was eight at the time and my sister was six (I think). My dad said "How about Pringle and Twiglet", obviously naming them after the two food snacks. I absolutely loved the names.

After about two years, my mum wanted some more. So, thinking that they were girls, we got two more, Quaver and Dorito. We soon found out they weren't girls when we found out that both Pringle and Twiglet were pregnant. Soon, they both gave birth. Pringle had two but one didn't live. We named her baby Nibbler because she nibbled EVERYTHING. Twiglet gave birth to six. SIX! And, they all lived. So, obviously we had to give some away. We gave away four, leaving just Nibbler and Leela, who is blind.

After this we obviously had to get the two boys neutured, so we did. Everything seemed fine until Dorito decided to bite open his stitches. We took him to the vet and they said that he'd lost too much blood so they had to put him down. This left us with five. But my mum didn't feel right so we got another (which I did not like at all) and named her Ruby. Shortly after this, we went on holiday to the Isle of Wight. When we came back, my nan told us that Pringle had died of a cold the night before we got back. This again, left us with five. But once again, my mum was uncomfortable with five so we got yet another. I absolutely adored this one and named her Ginger, after me (I'm ginger). Shortly after we got Ginger, we found out that Quaver had died of a cold. A week later Nibbler died of the same thing. A week after that Ruby died. This left us with Ginger, Twiglet and her daughter Leela.

Twiglet had been getting old and tired. She was sleeping and eating a lot more and prefered to be only with Leela and payed no attention to Ginger. Then finally, earlier on today, Twiglet died happily in her sleep. Now, there's just Ginger and Leela left in a once overfilled home.

R.I.P Twiggy...