





At the end of March, I saw an email from Freecycle, talking about a free guinea pig.
This little girl was found in a tiny box in the backseat of an Uber. The driver had tried multiple times to contact the passenger to no avail. The person who posted on Freecycle was friends with the driver, but found out that she was allergic to the timothy hay guinea pigs need.
So we took her.
Originally, we named her Cinnamon, but after I gave her to ElderSpawn, he and his online friends renamed her Microwave. Mostly because it was funny to say, “I need to put the greens in Microwave.” Whatever makes him happy.
And she definitely does that.
It’s been about a month, and while the two piggies get on well if they’re being held, we made the rookie mistake of trying to let them sniff each other out on established territory (everything we have smelled like Whiskers). So we’re currently trying to figure out a new, clean place to try again.
Just thought you might like some happy news from me.




