This is Keith's guinea pig, Corum. He's huge - probably the size of an alarm clock. He's getting a little friendlier. Now he'll let me scratch him on the head a few times before scurrying away.

Mary Kate stopped running around the cage long enough to take this picture. She came home in May with her twin sister, Ashley, and Chachi the gerbil. She escaped 3 days after coming home. I found her sitting on a green high-backed chair in my bedroom. She's very personable, and likes being held.

Ashley escaped from her cage last week. She was sitting outside of MK's cage, in the box, eating a piece of corn quietly when I realised she wasn't where she should be. She's more skittish, and less likely to come up to your finger if you stick it in the cage. She's fast, though.

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