BARN OWLET!

This precious photo from Austin Faure's album is just a taste of things to come!
The cuties are coming, the cuties are coming!

MODS: Join Chat for "roll call" for NBC Nightly News - this morning

MODS: Join Chat for "roll call" for NBC Nightly News - this morning: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Dear Readers,

Well, we MOD Piggies had such an exciting morning as an NBC Nightly News crew showed up
at Molly's to film a segment to be aired this weekend coinciding with what we hope with be the
first egg(s) hatching! They asked MODS to join a roll call from all over the world and viewers
from Dubai, Europe, Canada, and faraway places complied, giving the reporter an overview
of how worldwide Molly's devoted fans are demographically distributed.

Did we report in on the roll call? Oh, well, to do that mom would have had to log onto UStream
which is probably not really any harder than putting an avatar pic on her TWITTER...

so, of course she did not figure it out and only hope someone from Washington State logged
in to represent the Guinea Pig Nation from the Evergreen State. When we get better intel
on when the segment is due to air, we will share it with you!

Meanwhile, Raj is beginning to warm up to being petted and brushed and fussed over by mom
but he doesn't want Taj to know, so from high upon my lofty perch I watch his attempts to
get love and attention from mom, while appearing completely indifferent if Taj shows up, what
a riot those Mahal brothers are!

We have a documented "carrot food fight" which we hope to post soon, just so's you can see how
brotherly love does not extend to fresh, organic carrots! Mom gave me a new clean sleeping bag
tonight and I am so happy that I will bid you all adieu and encourage you to enjoy the Blogs on our
blog list, because they are all wonderful reading!

Ha Ha, I am YumYum and I am a MOD! G'night and Dream of Owlets Hatching!

TAJ MAHAL DEEP IN THOUGHT

"I am thinking, I just know I am."

TAJ HAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT!

can you hear me now? can you hear me now?
(EDITOR: TAJ, honey, just type!)

ok, ok, so, so GET THIS, MODS! Not only can I imitate Molly's calls for McGee but I can even turn my head all the way around like a barn owl: WATCH! WHEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeek....SPLAT!

mom, dizzy, mom? how de owlies do it, i so dizzy...is dat my brother or a spaceman? whaaaa? SPLAT! oh my, oh my, oh my.

WHAT ARE THEY EVEN THINKING?!

Dear Readers,

Sometimes i just don't get the Mahal brothers, and judging from this photograph, neither do they!

AN AMAZING DISCOVERY!

Dear Readers,

It isn't that you don't think I am credible as a journalist, but I chose to bring my editor in tonight to back me up because of how extraordinary this particular story is:
We're MODS, too, which means we join mom waiting to hear Molly call for McGee every night and, if you have heard it yourself, you know she has a highly distinguished, LOUD, REPETITIVE clicking call.
All Molly, Only Molly! And you can hear it a mile away!

When Raj and Taj were adopted back in April, you will recall my reporting that Taj displayed a highly unusual, rare behaviour for a guinea pig, which is that he "chirped" like a bird. And, as rare as that is, we
have never read any descriptions of males chirping in the annals of Guinea Pig Natural History.
Thus, we knew right off the bat that Taj was an extraordinary vocalist and we had a very special herdmate.

Well!  Tonight we all heard him imitating Molly's loud, clicking call for McGee just as mom was offering Taj
a late night snack! We were stunned as he clicked and chirped JUST LIKE MOLLY! Incredible. He's like a mynah bird or a parrot, that Taj: he imitates sounds of other species never before heard out of the mouth of a guinea pig.

Because we waited nervously for hours tonight for McGee to finally show up, (so late we all worried perhaps something had happened to him)  we were still awake when Taj did his Molly imitation! SENSATIONAL! That's why i brought mom on board, so's you would know I wasn't making up a story about a guinea pig imitating a barn owl! And not just any guinea pig, either: our own Taj Mahal. We so amazing, we are!

Love,
YumYum

OUR MOMENTS OF ZEN

TAJ MAHAL ASKS FOR HIS OWN AVATAR

Dear Taj Mahal,

It has recently come to our attention that you are interested in Twittering on Molly's Owl Box and, to that end, have sent in a requisition form for an avatar of your own.

We regret to inform you that, while we support your noble efforts to use Internet Social Media, you are out of luck.

To enable you to understand why we are denying your request, please refer to the following Blog post.

Yours Sincerely,
CyberGalactica, Inc.

1SKATER

Dear Readers, for months mom has been trying to figure out a way to put a photo on her TWITTER avatar,
always unsuccessfully. We are proud to report that mom has not changed, and she still has not figured out a way to put her photo on TWITTER (and likely never will.)
So, here is the only place you are ever likely to see the TWITTER avatar for 1skatr.

p.s. Even a guinea pig could figure THAT OUT!
we giggle all day long!
love, YumYum

WE LOVE THIS BLOG: IT'S ALL ABOUT GUINEA PIGS! WWWhhhheeeeeek!

CT Guinea Pig Rescue: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Dear wonderful readers,

The above link is to an excellent blog posted by the folks at a guinea pig rescue from a place that is hard for me to spell. Just click the above CT Guinea Pig Rescue. Well done!

If you are enslaved by or are considering becoming enslaved by your very own guinea pig, please learn as much as you can about us first, so that your piggy (hopefully, piggies, they need company, we are HERD animals) will be as happy and healthy and loving as a guinea pig can be: and that's A LOT OF LOVE!

YumYum out!

P.S. We saw Boris the Spider last night in the middle of the night when mom couldn't sleep and decided that we like Boris very much, especially when he climbs onto the front of the camera lens and dances!

MY NAME IS YUM-YUM AND I AM A MOD

Now that Molly's first egg-hatch due date is August 8th, we're all up and into it! We can't help getting swept away in the sweet anticipation of fuzzy, bobble-headed, wobbly owlets face-planting as they struggle comically to stand in gag-shag many inches deep already! We watch and giggle as if they are our own.
And, since Mom is hopelessly back into MollyWatching,  if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!  So, we're stocking up for Aug. 8, knowing that once "Egg-Hatch Watch" commences we'll be glued to the screen with mom and the rest of our MOD family...We even feel affection for Boris, the spider who crawls across the lens of the camera, fogging up our view with his web-making dance.  Boris, our new friend! We love all.

Transformer Owl: MODS, YA GOTTA SEE THIS!

DEAR READERS,
THIS IS NOT MOLLY! THIS IS THE "TRANSFORMER OWL" AND IT'S REAL!
HANG ON TO YOUR WITS!
LOVE,
THE GUINEA PIG TRAVELING CIRCUS