Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Feb 1, 2016 8:27:26 GMT
I am very interested to hear that. In my 60 plus years on this earth apart from the odd child who was seeing pictures of guinea pigs and hamsters for the first time I have never come across even one person who wouldn't know what a guinea pig or hamster or ferret or fancy rat etc looks like. Do you live in a particularly remote area without access to reference books, libraries, televisions etc ?
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Feb 1, 2016 10:34:24 GMT
I agree with you about teaching about animal welfare. I am surprised that guinea pigs are not known where you are- I was a teacher/ Headteacher for over 40 years in the UK and all the Nursery class and Reception class teachers I knew would introduce the topic of looking after animals through small pets and visits to local garden centres etc, which in the area I worked in , had small pet areas where the children could see hamsters, guinea pigs etc in proximity and also through trips to petting farms where a variety of small animals and farm animals were on show. There would always be plenty of books and posters for the children to see as well. Absolutely no idea why anyone wants to carry a dog about in their handbag!
I've got a little visitor climbing up the bank of the river and skipping about under the bird feeder. The other day I flung open the door & screamed at it. It flew for the fence & bounced off of it LOL
Do you mean what kind of animal are they? They're guinea pigs, of course. The one on the left is 哇哇 and the one on the right is 肥肥. That's Wawa and Feifei. They're about six months old now.
They're both very cute little Guinea pigs. We had three of them living with us one time....all a bit too interelated they were. I never knew our first one was expecting till I opened the hutch one morning and found a fully fledged miniature Guinea pig looking at me! Trouble was, I'd brought the mother (Sweep) and her guest relative in from the garden hutch the night before....not knowing there was a baby already in there with them. The poor little mite had been left on its own all night! Ooops...