Fido the Guinea Dog Book Patrick Jennings

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Fido the Guinea Dog Book by Patrick Jennings

Cute new book on a guinea pig that thinks he’s a dog from author Patrick Jennings – set to be released April 13th. This basic plot is of a fifth grade boy Rufus, who desperately wants a dog, but is told he cannot have one by his father. The boy’s mother takes sympathy on her son and buys him a guinea pig instead.

Rufus names his guinea pig “Fido” anyways and then he begins to notice that something is a little unusual…Fido thinks she’s a dog!

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Guinea pig plays basketball

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guinea pig loving teacher retires

Guinea Pig Loving Teacher Retires

Here’s a sweet story I found online today (this is from the UK) -

“Pupils, staff and guinea pigs will bid a fond farewell and a squeak of sadness for a retiring teacher who has used the small animals as teaching aids for the past 43 years.

Margaret Buchanan, who has spent her whole career at Warwick Primary School in Wellingborough, said she started using guinea pigs in the classroom after reading as a trainee teacher that they were good teaching aids.”

man kills guinea pig makes hat

Man Kills Guinea Pig to Make Hat

Hey guys, I saw this news today and i couldn’t tell if it was a joke or not. I am leaning towards not…

A man in Virginia bought a guinea pig from a pet store, takes it home, kills it, makes a hat out of the fur, and then proceeds to wear the hat around his community for everyone to see. How bizarre!

http://wcrnews.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/mcdermott-bianchini-episode-1/

guinea pig intelligence

Guinea Pig Intelligence Shown Not to be Affected by Domestication

Okay, I am not a fan of using guinea pigs for research r studies, for obvious reasons – however this little news article came across my radar today and I wanted to share it with you.

Research done by BioMed shows that domesticated and wild guinea pig show equal ability at completing intelligence tests. Essentially the researchers had the guinea pigs compete at doing various tests such as maze completion.