Minnou’s piggies

Held my little feral bowling ball (Gaia) and carried her around the house and she kept scrambling up my chest and tucking herself into my neck.

'Awww!' I thought. 'She wants cuddles' :wub:

Then Gaia started mauling me.

'Awww! She's looking for my jugular!' :eek:
 
The girls were out for their morning workout (that means, sitting beneath a cabinet and screaming at me until they get food).

I finished patting dry their fresh grass and put it on their serving tray and the wheeking intensified. Minerva was being the noisy one today as she hurried towards the kitchen. I placed the tray on the floor to show them it was indeed breakfast time and there was grass. Minerva did a full lap of the kitchen before settling on the tray and tucking in but Gaia was being extra cautious and hovering nearby.

Gaia: 'It's a trap.... I know it is...'

So I said; 'OK, let's get you and your breakfast back into your bed so wussy Gaia can eat' And when I began to lift the tray, Gaia had a change of heart.

Gaia: 'Nooo! I want that!'

And she ran over and leapt onto the tray of food and wouldn't get off. It was quite dramatic. 😶
 
Put a small xmas tree up for the girls and they were scared of it at first, by sight by sound and by smell. 🙄

Took Gaia to see the bigger tree in the living room with all lights on and she was very unimpressed.

Gaia: 'If it's not for eating, what's the point?!'

Minerva took herself to the hallway to sniff at where all the boxes I'd brought down from the loft had been sat.

Minerva: '....... Interesting..... 🧐 .......... Area secure!' *scurries back through the kitchen to find Gaia and rumblestrut at her*
 
Minerva somehow managed to steal every tiny bit of hay today and made herself a pigloo to hide in.

It's a good job Gaia was too busy stuffing her face with fresh grass, otherwise I think she would've minded having zero hay. 😂
 
I was in late with the grass today and boy did I know it!

Before I could even step over the threshold, Gaia was power-wheeking from the back of the house; you could hear her everywhere.

Usually she waits for a bag to rustle before yelling. Or for me to at least reach the kitchen.
 
Oh no! I just got chattered at by Gaia (again) 😱

Because it was the end of floor time and I wanted to pick her up and give her a quick cuddle, which she obviously didn't want, and she was waiting for me to put the magic elevator (tunnel) in front of her so she could hop in it. I placed it some distance from her with the intention of grabbing her before she could reach it. She completely saw through my plan and started chattering her teeth angrily at me until I relented and pushed the tunnel an inch from her nose. Then she stopped chattering and hopped inside.

Gaia: 'I have beauty and brains, you know....'
 
Gaia: 'I need somepig to tell me... are 'snow' and 'ice' real things? Because my daily serving of fresh grass has been abysmal the last few days, both in quantity and quality, and the Slave insists it is due to those things but I don't believe her and have been wheeking and chattering my teeth extra hard at her'.
 
Minnou said:
Gaia: 'I need somepig to tell me... are 'snow' and 'ice' real things? Because my daily serving of fresh grass has been abysmal the last few days, both in quantity and quality, and the Slave insists it is due to those things but I don't believe her and have been wheeking and chattering my teeth extra hard at her'.
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Yes Gaia.
Snow and ice are very real, very cold and very uncomfortable.
 
Minnou said:
Gaia: 'I need somepig to tell me... are 'snow' and 'ice' real things? Because my daily serving of fresh grass has been abysmal the last few days, both in quantity and quality, and the Slave insists it is due to those things but I don't believe her and have been wheeking and chattering my teeth extra hard at her'.
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Carson: Gaia, we haven't had grass for 3 days now! Our slaves can't be bothered to go and walk around and look for grass around the farms because she said the snow is everywhere here. She tried showing me what was outside the window but it's so blurry and I couldn't see what she's was making me look at. I'm starving here!
 
anyar.dris said:
Carson: Gaia, we haven't had grass for 3 days now! Our slaves can't be bothered to go and walk around and look for grass around the farms because she said the snow is everywhere here. She tried showing me what was outside the window but it's so blurry and I couldn't see what she's was making me look at. I'm starving here!
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Gaia: 😱

Gaia: 'I am very disgusted with your Slaves as well! 3 days?! I'm sure these Slaves are just being lazy! We could pool our resources and get them a shovel or a rake or whatever they might need. Then they'll have no excuse! And how dare your Slave try to make you see their excuse for laziness when they know we don't like to be handled and we don't see things the way they do!'
 
Minerva decided to 'do a Gaia' today and do everything in her power to avoid being picked up.

She ran under the shoe cupboard, a regular haunt of theirs, but there was something different about it today... a shoelace was left dangling out of the door.

So, within seconds of her crawling under the cupboard, Minerva stuck her head out and twisted it round have a good sniff of the shoelace, had a mind-blown expression on her face, and then started eating said shoelace.

I told her off and she just kinda froze there; most of her still under the cupboard so all you could see was a guinea-pig head turned so far around, it looked like she was upside down, standing on her head... with a shoelace dangling out of her mouth.
 
'Hay Rules' by Gaia & Minerva

We shall not lie on the hay.

We shall not lie under the hay.

We shall lie beside the hay (and wonder how the Slave can see us and why we're feeling a bit chilly).
 
Gaia: 'Revenge pee here....'

Gaia: 'Revenge pee there....'

Gaia: 'Revenge pee here as well...'

Minerva: 'Why are you revenge peeing everywhere, Gaia?'

Gaia: 'The Slave trimmed my butt hair...'

Minerva: 'But I thought you liked being less furry?'

Gaia: 'I do....'

Minerva: 'So why are you revenge peeing everywhere?'

Gaia: 'Because the Slave held me.... *eyes narrow* And she kissed me.... And that is not the reward I expect for letting her trim my fur!'
 
Clearly hearing the thunder of little paws 'sneaking' towards the living room door, I open the door.

Gaia: 'WE'VE BEEN RUMBLED! FLEE!' *speeds off*

Minerva: 'Move now! (please)' *barges her way in*
 
*Cornering Gaia in the hallway and getting down on all fours to intercept her*

'Right, Gaia. You can run to the left or you can run to the right, either way I'm going to catch you and give you cuddles' :wub:

Gaia: '............. I think not!'

*Runs straight at me and underneath me, headbutting me in the chest, stomach and nether regions as she goes (of course)*

Gaia: 'Dumb Slave!' *she shouts over her shoulder, as she reappears behind me and waddles away*
 
Betsy said:
Dear Gaia

Congratulations on outwitting your Slave yet again. You and Minerva are getting very good at it.

Your friend in a crisis

Miss Bramble
Shop Steward
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Dear Miss Bramble,

Thank-you but I can't gloat too much; our Slave does seem to be especially simple-minded... or broken!

Your cuddle-adverse cavy comrades,

Gaia & Minerva
 
*When I had company and the girls were having floortime*

Slave-who-was-not-me: "Aw! I think Minerva wants to go to bed; she came right up to me and stood by my feet and looked at me, the same way she does with you when she wants to go to bed"

Me: "Oh go on then, see if she'll let you pick her up. Just tidy away some of their boxes and she'll think she's going to bed and will probably come sit by your feet again. Then move to slowly pick her up and if she really wants to go to bed, she'll start climbing up your arm."

Slave-who-was-not-me: *starts picking up boxes, pretending to be uninterested in picking Minerva up*

*Minerva returns and sits by her feet*

Slave-who-was-not-me: *slowly reaches out to Minerva who sniffs and then legs it*

Minerva: *running around, crying* "NOT THE SLAVE!" "STRANGER DANGER!" "SHE'S TRYING TO TOUCH MY NO-NO PARTS!"

Me: "......... Just what are your 'no-no parts' to you, Minerva?"

Minerva: "All of me" ((obviously))

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She did come running to me a bit later and started climbing into my hands and up my arm, so she did want to go to bed but she only wants me to put her there.
 
I gave the girls the exact same 2 treats each.

Minerva picked up one of hers and ran away with it. Nothing unusual there. Then she came back for the other one and hurried off with that. Which was quite unusual. Then she immediately came back and lifted one of Gaia's and took it back to her haul. And then she came back again and snatched the one Gaia was in the middle of eating! 😲🫣

Gaia: *looks at me* 'What just happened?'

Me: 'More like how could you let that happen; you never let Minerva take your stuff'

Gaia: *paw stomps* 'Make her give it back!'

Meanwhile, Minerva is sat on top of all the treats.

Me: 'Minerva... get off your hoard and give half of them back'

Minerva: 'No Minervas here; I'm a dragon!'

Me: 'You're a furry marshmallow and you're never watching The Hobbit ever again!'
 
I gave the girls their supper last night and Minerva, clearly feeling it was inadequate, chattered her teeth at me. 😭

I had to go back to the fridge and keep fetching more things until she was satisfied. (With Gaia waving her pom poms and cheering her on in the background).
 
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