Hi guinea pig friends — this is H — and I’m M!
I remember we’ve talked about our new piggie pad (or cage for the human speakers) before, M. True, H, we have and we mentioned how much we like our popcorn fleece and are confused by the little monsters one… Yeah, M, why would they get us the little monster fleece??? No clue… Anyway, today’s post is about when the cleaning human stops by.
The cleaning lady (our human, Teresa), sure does seem to carry a lot of tools with her…
Her schedule is pretty predictable now — she comes every third day to revamp our piggie pad. It’s wonderful when it’s done, but look at where she puts us while she’s working. Yeah guinea pig friends, you’re seeing correctly: a clothes basket! She lines it with some sort of strange fleece, too, H. I’ve heard her call it a diaper. Wonder what that is? She was telling Jesús about how absorbent it is and how she finds them in the adult incontinence aisle at the drug store. So many words human have no meaning for piggies in that sentence, H, I honestly don’t know how you remembered that gobbledygook! Practice, M. It takes practice…
As you can see, M and I wind up in the clothes basket with some hay as our human does the dirty work.
Anyway, she’s concocted a piggie safe cleaning spray using essential oils and other ingredients. It smells funky if you ask me, H! From what she and Jesús have said it’s way safer than the store bought chemical kinds of cleaners. What’s a chemical??? No clue… Humans and their odd terms. Why can’t they say things like: hay, wheek, treat, kale, carrot, apple slices, green pepper — words guinea pigs respond to?? It does make a piggie wonder…
Before the fleece gets put in there’s a layer of newspaper and towel in our food/potty area and the layers of towels everywhere else.
As our cleaning human goes about her tasks, she rolls up the soiled fleeces and towels, throws away the existing newspaper/diaper combo (between the sheets of newspaper is a segment of adult diaper), and then sprays down the red base surface with her cleaning solution. How did you squeak all that in one breath, H??? I come from a long line of great squeakers of the piggie-verse — just trying to keep up the great squeak-dition. WheekWheek to that!
Our favorite part is when we get put back in with the fresh fleece and fresh hay is put in our hay ball! #wheek
Once the whole base has been sprayed and wiped down, our cleaning lady reassembles the towel layer and creates a new newspaper/diaper section for the food area of our piggie pad. She sort of takes a long time to do all this… So we normally eat all the hay by the time she finishes. But it’s fine though because when she puts us back in the piggie pad she refills our hay ball!!!! WheekWheek!!! We love our hay ball!!!
We hope your cleaning humans give you lots of treats! And we definitely hope they fill your hay ball once they put you back in your piggie pad!
Peace, hay and squeaks to you all!
H&M
The Adventures of H&M 
You little squeakhearts are lucky to have a cleaning-human like Teresa, who doesn’t mind poopy-scooping (with a trowel!) and getting peed on and all the other stuff that comes along with being mommy to two little piggies.