Hello again!

I have some rather upsetting news today. This morning, my sister got our guinea-pigs out onto the grass, as we do every morning and everything was fine. Afterwards, we went out to do a few things that needed to be done and came home. I went downstairs to check on the guniea-pigs and discovered that the heat had really bothered them while we were out. (Grace, one of our longhaired guinea pigs has suffered from heatstroke twice now.) My guinea-pig, (The shorthair) was very limp and weak and was not eating or drinking. She has very dark fur and so we think that contributed to some of the heat bother. We took her inside and got into a cool bath and force fed her the water. (We have had to do that with Grace each time as the vet recommended it.) I had to hold open her little, tiny mouth while trying to squeeze the water into her. We have a little syringe that we use specifically for this purpose but my sister accidentally broke it a while ago so we could not use that on her. We had to try to give her the big water bottle in the hopes that we could fit it into her mouth without choking her. I finally got her to eat some cold carrot and a bit of grass and she has pretty much recovered now. I monitered her this afternoon and she appears to be getting better. She is still a bit weak but it's nothing she can't recover from. It was a good thing that today was one of our days off from school so that we could make sure she was recovering well! One of the first things I do in situations like this is, PRAY! I certainly did that today and God took care of my little guinea-pig!

I just thought I'd post about this as it was of large importance!

Your Sister In Christ,

Hannah-Ruth