“Why is it that people don’t know what to say when something bad has happened to someone they know? Maybe because they think there are some magic words that will make everything all right again, only they don’t know what the words are.”
Ellen Wittlinger, Hard Love

Heehee, I feel that way, that what I say should make things better. ^.^

J.T. died sometime before 10. Mommy checked on him and found him dead, although she said, “He doesn’t feel that stiff, he must have died recently.” I said I didn’t want to see him, but then Mommy said, “You don’t want to say goodbye? Okay, Wulfie said goodbye.” “Wait!” and I went to look at im; his eyes were half open. “But he’s not in there anymore … it’s not him …” She started moving him around and singing, or something, and I ran away. She was going to set him by the door, to take to the shelter tomorrow, but she thought the cats would start attacking him. So he’s in his cage. Stimpy was kept in the freezer until we could bury him.

MY JAYJO!!! He’s dead! The last guinea pig (well, second, Buba was the first) that would put his head on my shoulder when I carried him. The one that gave me a horrid rash on my neck when I carried him. The one we rescued from my friend who was scared of him. ;_; He’s not here anymore, the one who held my last tie to adoring guinea pigs. Now they’re kind of … just there. ;_;

Mommy said J-jo must have had cancer or kidney failure to die so quickly, because he had a full stomach last night.

J.T.’s dying. Mommy said he’ll be dead in the next day or so. At least he gets to go with a clean cage, ne?

He’s not eating, and he’s slobbering. Mommy said he “has the slobbers.” She said it means his molars are growing out, or something, and he can’t chew his food. This is the first pig we aren’t at least trying to force-feed baby food. Does that mirror our feelings toward guinea pigs?

I fed the pigs (sans Jayjo) a little while ago. J.T. made a really weird slobber sound. I petted him, and he felt sticky, or something. Sickly, duh. He has his nose stuck in the corner of the cage. :(

I consider Jayjo one of the original pigs. I mean, he used to share a cage with Wilbee, who was an original. Girl Girl is kinda iffy, in-between. She was related to Root Beer, we think. Funny, I don’t think of Electricity as an original piggy. When I say original, I don’t mean the first three (four, if I count Kiki, six if I count Mama’s and A’s pigs), but just that whole group of pigs. Mommy probably means only the first three and the Stimpy pigs. *shrugs* Owell.

Mommy said I don’t have to see him dead. I thik it’d be too sad to see the “kangaroo pig” dead and old and helpless. ^_^;; It’s sad even now, remembering how he’d hop out of his cage, even with all the latches and everything, and roam around the room. Even hopping in the girls’ cage. ^.^