I think guinea pigs are just adorable, and they definitely needed someone to come along and create some guinea pig jewelry in their image!
Cavies, or wild guinea pigs, live in South America. They live in little groups of five to ten individuals, sheltering in burrows that they dig. They’re mostly nocturnal, definitely more active after nightfall. The cavy is a little brown rodent, pretty plain next to the fanciful colors the domestic guinea pig comes in. The silkie guinea pig is the most amazing one I think, with outrageously long hair. How in the world was such a creature bred starting from plain little cavy stock? (I’m not much of a geneticist so this is just a rhetorical question.)
One of my books mentioned that some domestic guinea pigs in South America have gone feral and rejoined their cavy cousins in the wild. Maybe an escaped silkie will become a sort of god to the plainer brown cavies, or at the very least some type of honored king. At the very least, it doesn’t seem like it would hurt to have a little colorful guinea pig stock brightening up the lives of their country cousins.
Probably my favorite guinea pig jewelry piece is the one where he’s looking right at you. I feel like I captured a bit of the personality of these whimsical little rodents in that look. |
