Meet Puto!

Look-a-likes!

It all started when we adopted Suman... you can probably guess how this story ends.

When we officially took Suman, her former human warned us that she might pregnant. She wasn't sure if the breeding was a success or not.

On the eighteenth of May, Suman was acting a little strange. She was waddling, falling over and flipping on her side. Our human suspected vitamin C deficiency, so she gave Suman an extra dose of ascorbic acid and took an afternoon nap. By the time our human woke up, boom! There's a tiny cotton ball in the sows' cage. She was very small, and curly haired, she was like 70% white fluff, 20% ears, 10% beady eyes.

Oh don't mind me, I'm just a head.

Since the cage wasn't baby proofed, the grid holes were big enough for a puto to sqeeze through. Human looked around until she was sure that Suman only gave birth to little Puto and no other extra pigglets have strayed away. It turns out that having a litter of one isn't that uncommon in guinea pigs. Originally, we planned to find good homes for the pups (if Suman was pregnant), but since Puto is just one... How could we say no?

Yes, we know, we've said it before "this is our limit". That's what we said tree guinea pigs ago.

Mochi keeping a close eye on baby Puto.

As of now, all the sows are getting along. Mochi likes to dote on Puto like she's mommy. Puto enjoys the attention she's getting from Mochi, she likes chasing Mochi around the cage, even pushing Mochi to her limits by biting her ears. Surprisingly, being the only pig that ever had the guts to charge and bite human, Mochi has never bitten our tiny pup. Suman doesn't mind that Mochi's playing the role of mommy, we think that she's enjoying it because this gives her more time for herself after her pregnancy.

As for Loki and I, we're doing pretty good too. Getting very fat as usual. Wheek!

One big happy sow family!