Georgie

We finally have our dishwasher back working. Everytime that our neighbor came over to help, Randy wasn't here. Yesterday, Randy started heading out again and I told him that I could not handle having a dishwasher sitting in the middle of my kitchen and not having access to the kitchen sink. Randy went in there and messed with the dishwasher until he, by himself, was able to figure out what exactly was wrong with it. He went to Home Depot, got the little part and all is well now! One funny thing, though, was that Randy had thought he had lost one of the pipes for the sink. He bought one from McClendon's and found it didn't fit. He then bought one from Home Depot and found it didn't fit either. He then got to really looking at the pipes and realized that there was no pipe missing ~ he had just not connected them back up. So, the pipes were right in front of them the entire time! I found it very funny.

On a sad note, our Guinea Pig, Georgie is very sick. Every night, when I go into tuck Cass in, I always talk to Georgie. I realized that the last few days, she really hasn't responded ~ she just sat in her house. Last night, she wasn't inside the house, but she didn't move or really respond to me. I opened the cage and went to pet her and found she was incredibly skinny. You couldn't tell by looking at her, though, because of all of her hair. She seemed very lethargic. Randy thought she was just very dehydrated because we have a very hard time keeping her water bottle up ~ we are constantly picking it up from the ground. We filled her water up and filled up her food dish. Both were completely full tonight when I checked on her. We took her to the only Animal Hospital in our area that will deal with Guinea Pigs. The doctor said she almost died during his examination. He thinks she has some type of infection, but isn't sure. Cass is the one that takes care of her so we didn't have many clues ~ Cass doesn't make it a normal practice of looking at Georgie's droppings or things such as that. The vet didn't give Georgie much hope of making it through this because she has lost so much weight and has gone into shock, but we decided we needed to give her a shot at living, so we opted to allow them to treat her.

I know people that know us must think we are absolutely crazy! 3 or so years ago, when Cass's hamster's eye popped out, we opted to have surgery to remove the eye and try to save him only to have him die a few hours after the surgery. But we have really tried to teach Cass that when you take an animal into your home you are responsible for its life and should do all you can to take care of it. That, and we get attached to our animals! Georgie is very easy to love ~ she has such a sweet personality for a Guinea Pig. So we are a little crazy!