Little Ones
Adult Guinea Pig
Honey/Hoo/Bean
Gotcha day: 22nd December 2014
Passed away: 6th July 2019
Gotcha day: 22nd December 2014
Passed away: 6th July 2019


My best friend, my forever favourite. How do you condense four and a half years into a paragraph or two?
Pictures don’t do you justice. You were full of life, extremely stubborn and definitely the underdog. Throughout your life, your true love was food, from being 1500 grams right down to 750 grams.

Thank you for being beside me throughout my pivotal teenage years, from 14 to 19. Every year I have known you, I have loved you more than the one before. Thank you for also literally being beside me, in the cage by my bed, making your silly noise any time I so much as moved my leg. For making exam revision bearable as I could look over and watch you being your usual, happy self, always wondering when the next snack would be.


I am thankful that, by some twist of fate, you ended up right next to me through life. From the moment I got you, to the moment you passed away, I have fought for you and I have always tried my best to do right by you.

Through all your phases in life, being shy and rather quite lazy, to being a hyperactive, yet terminally ill, trouble maker, I have always had the strongest soft spot for you. You have deserved the world, and whilst I cannot speak for the entire world, you were definitely mine, and I hope that was enough for you.

My Hoo-Bean, you have left behind a family that loves you and misses you. I missed you the second you were taken from me to be sent to sleep and I miss you even now in the most rawest form, almost 4 weeks later.

The sun shines a little less brighter without you. Though, I cannot say where you are. I look at lone butterflies, or bees, or birds and wonder if I’m looking at you, just in a new form, if it’s you saying hello or goodbye to me. Or if perhaps, the rainbow bridge is real and you are there waiting for me. I’ve never been one for heaven, but without you here, I hope it’s real and I hope it’s beautiful and I hope we meet again there one day.

Anyway, wherever you are, thank you and I miss you.

