The Story of Jessie Mae and Sweet Tater

Jessie Mae and Sweet Tater

This is their blog.  I started this as to not overwhelm my Facebook friends with too much guinea pig talk.

My love for guinea pigs date back to elementary school when my dear friend Elizabeth had me "watch" two of her piggies while she went out of town.  Well, at least that was the story that my father got from my mother and I.  I use to play with this all the time.  I would pack them a lunch and put them and the lunch into a picnic basket and spend the summer day at Little Harpeth River letting them swim and eat.

On and off I have had guinea pigs.  One of the last of my piggies were in Baltimore.  My late husband bought me one to keep me company since I had moved so far from my family.  The poor piggie didn't live but a few months.  I told myself no more for me.

Then ten years ago I saw a sweet little sow at a pet store near my work.  Little did I know that she was prego.  My manager let me keep the guinea pigs at work and on the weekends they went home with me.  I ended up giving them to a senior home when life took a turn for the worst for our family.

Now, I remarried after the death of my husband.  However, Tim, my new husband hates rodents.  Well, he use to at least.  He was quite adamant about NEVER having guinea pigs or as he called them "rats".  I felt that it was hopeless.  Being the wonderful husband that he is, he saw how much I wanted another and gave in to to desire to see me happy.  I love this MAN!  TIm named him.  How could I not let him?  He drove all the way to Virginia Beach to get this very special Texel guinea pig for me.  After getting Tater, Tim felt that he was so lonely and needed a friend.  So, than came Jessie Mae thanks to who?  My dearest friend Elizabeth.  She went on the hunt to find us a GIRL for our little MAN.   She succeeded where I couldn't.  No one wanted to let go of their Texel sows.  Jessie Mae didn't have the best coat for a Texel and was on the little side.  However, she was perfect for us.  I named her after my grandmother who loved red and was a little spit fire like my new little sow.

As of today, Jessie Mae is expecting babies.  We can not wait.  I am quite the expectant grandmother.

Below are pictures of the litters that they came from.  They both came from litters of three.  I think I can feel three babies in Jessie Mae.

This is Jessie Mae's litter.  She is the one on the left.

Tater is the piggie in the middle.