How's it going my gumdrops? Are you in need of some laughs, during this stressful time of the year?
I'm not a huge, self-righteous, political activist about loving animals like many people are today, however I do love most animals. This especially includes reptiles.
Over the last several years of being on social media sites, many have annoyed the hell out of me with their cats. Today's cat lovers tend to regularly act like they gave birth to Jesus.
This may sound harsh to say, but some cat owners can be just as annoying as those proud parents, who think their children can walk on water and turn water into wine.
Apparently, some of these cat lovers feel like acting self-righteous and morally superior to others because giving birth to children is somehow BENEATH them. Ugh! Enough is enough already! Give it a friggin' rest!
Aside from the preceding rant, I have chosen to share something cute and furry for laughs. Today's blog is more of a tribute to a friend/subscriber from Blogster.
Scottster has been having a rough time on Blogster. Surely, most of my Xangan and Blogsterian friends/subscribers are familiar with that problem, which is all the more reason why I only comment on their pages compared to blogging on Blogster, now.
Meanwhile, I stumbled upon this cute and funny YouTube vlog last week by Rory The Guinea Pig.
Briefly voiced by Ricky Gervais, Rory read some of the hilarious insults about his physical appearance from his Twitter account.
Before watching that video, here's an informative Animal Planet segment about guinea pigs.
Animal Planet's Pets 101: Guinea Pigs
After acquiring mite, he started having scratching seizures and had to be euthanized.
For my 13th birthday, my mother bought my 2nd guinea pig, Fantastical. He was the craziest guinea pig I ever owned!
Fantastical seemed more like a human trapped inside a guinea pig's body. He constantly strategized ways of climbing outside his tank.
As I was leaving my bedroom years ago, Fantastical literally climbed on top of his water bottle and hung from the rim of his tank. With good timing, I luckily bolted over to catch him from falling.
The next incident involved my youngest aunt and I eating breakfast, in our living room. We sat on our living room floor at the table, while watching MTV and monitoring Fantastical in his cardboard box that we carted him in for babysitting purposes.
Once I let Fantastical outside his box, he strolled across our living room floor and BIT my aunt's bacon.
Had she actually set her plate on the living room table, he would've been unable to reach it.
Fantastical biting my aunt's bacon was hilarious! He almost lived an entire year. He would have lived at least 3-4 years longer had my great-grandmother's evil friend not put some Juju on him.
At 16, I bought my last 2 guinea pigs. Altivo (meaning "superior" and "haughty" in Spanish) lived for only 3 years. Ookii (meaning "big" in Japanese) lived for 4 years. Between the 2, Altivo was my favorite.
I believe I favored Altivo more because of the way the other guinea pigs mistreated him at Pet World. I saw another guinea pig bite his face and he started whining. I REALLY wanted to reach over that cage and smack his bully on the butt!
A month later, I bought Ookii and he became Altivo's next bully. The bullying was to the extent that I had to buy 1 extra cage to separate them from each other.
Altivo and Ookii only shared a cage together, whenever I had to clean their cages every so many days. Had they always shared a cage, I believe Ookii would've killed Altivo.
Even though Altivo was my favorite next to Fantastical, Altivo would sometimes get an attitude with me. I made a joke about using his body heat to keep me warm and he got angry. Altivo's cheeks looked inflated and he started grinding his teeth.
I didn't say I was going to kill him for his fur or anything! I only joked about using his body heat to keep me warm and he took offense to it!
Psychologists claim that animals don't have feelings. I don't believe that for a second! I know when animals are happy, sad, angry, etc.
After joking about using Altivo's body heat to keep me warm, he snubbed me! The next day, I
went to take him out his cage and he literally did his paw
at me!
Altivo looked like he told me, "Talk to the paw cuz I ain't listenin'!"
I had a Michael Kelso moment from That '70s Show. You know those scenes of Kelso shrieking, "Oh!"?
Yup! That was my reaction to Altivo giving me "The Paw." Talk about rude!
After giving me that attitude, I snuck up to his cage and flashed him! Within seconds, Altivo literally did a 360 bolt around his cage.
His 360 bolt around the cage was a slapstick moment. It was hilarious much like Fantastical sneaking and biting my youngest aunt's bacon.
Years later, Altivo and Ookii for some reason died days before Christmas. Their deaths were 1 year apart from each other. I was devastated when 3 of my 4 guinea pigs died.
I was a little sad, although I wasn't heartbroken over Ookii's death. He always loved biting me.
During 10th grade, Ookii bit my ear once and I had to wear a band aid on it.
My college sophomore year, he died, which was shortly after coming home from UW-Parkside for Christmas Break.
The year before, I cried tears and mourned Altivo's death because I watched him die, when I was in the middle of working on my Advanced Composition research paper.
Our last dog, Alexis also seemed depressed because she viewed Altivo and Ookii as her puppies. That sounds strange, but it's true.
Anyway, I've talked enough about my guinea pigs. With that being said, here are 3 YouTube vlogs featuring Rory The Guinea Pig.
1) Rory The Guinea Pig [Voiced By Ricky Gervais] Promotes Just Sayin' App (2012)
