guinea piggies...

so we've been thinking that we should probably start looking for a better home for our three adorable little piggies... and it makes me really sad. :( we love them and feed them and take care of them, but i think they might just thrive in a home where people play with them a lot more... i think they need more human interaction than we can give them. *sigh* it makes me sad, because as much as i love them, and as attached as i am to them... i don't think we're loving them the way we should. :( and part of that's our problem, and part of it is just by nature of their species... we can't let them run free because they poo/pee everywhere (and they're easily stepped on!), and so we can't really give them enough attention out of the cage because when we do, it has to be 100%, 24/7 - and as working students, 100%, 24/7 is not really an option.

the problem is, i refuse to just hand them over to the first person who says "gee, i've always wanted a guinea pig!" because i'm crazy, i did a TON of research on guinea pigs when we first bought them, and i feel like we take a lot better care of them than most people would... they have a MASSIVE cage (i think, for the three of them, the cage totals something like 20 sq. feet or something), they're incredibly well fed (and fat!), and we take good care of their health. seriously. when hershey got this funky skin disease, i actually gave him a SHOT every single day for a week until he was better!!! it was traumatic... for both hershey and i. o_O

so yeah.... i'm torn, because as much as i love them, i want them to go to a better home. however, i'm not sure if we're going to be able to even FIND a home that's better for them - maybe one where they get more human interaction, but probably won't have a cage as huge as ours... or there'll be little kids who abandon/torture/neglect them. o_O

so any ideas/suggestions? know any nice people looking for 1 or 2 or 3 piggies?

*sigh*