My name is Spin and I am a very special piggie, or at least, that is what my mom keeps telling me :)
I have been trying to convince mom to start my own chronicle but she says it has to be our chronicle, as in everybody at the house getting to tell his / her story. So I'm thinking, fine, whatever, just get on it lady :) Just kidding, I love mom!
So, here it goes:
In April 2004, right after my mom moved to a new apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens, she was walking around the new neighborhood, trying to take in the new stores, people, and smells! A lot of restaurants, different cuisines and a lot of people living in that neighborhood from what I've been told. And walking by she saw a pet store. So, in she went and started looking around. Next to the register, there was a large cage filled with baby guinea pigs, all very small and almost all sleeping. Well, all were sleeping, except me :)
I saw her looking at the piggies and smiling as if she was remembering something pleasant. She later told me that she had guinea pigs all her life growing up in Romania and that she absolutely loved them all :) But anyways, the lady turned around to leave and then I decided that I wanted somebody like her to smile at me.
So, really fast, I started running circles around the wooden hut and spinning and popcorning all over the sleepy heads in the cage. Let me tell you, they all got annoyed with me but I did not care: the lady looked back and started laughing. Next thing I know, the guy at the store came to pick me up. Well, I knew that guy from before and got scared of him and ran to hide in the wooden house. I heard the lady say she'll get me out of the cage and the guy say something about guinea pigs biting and stuff ... Well, some people deserve it!
She lifted the wooden house and let me sniff her fingers :) And then, she just picked me up, just like that! I did not even get scared :)
I was the size of her thumb :) But very brave, you know!
She asked the people at the store about any aproximate date of birth, and one lady that worked there remembered that the baby pigs were born on April 15th, her son's birthday. And that is how I know my birthday.
When I got to mom's home, well ... her roommates, not very happy about pets :(
But mom said she did not care and off we went to her room. She told me my name will be Spin because my spinning in circles in the cage won her heart :)
And that is how I ended up with my mom; my large piggie family is a different story :) A lot of piggies came, some of which I like, others that I hate and one that I adored :)
But that is all to come ...
* picture of baby Spin - May 2004 - about 5 weeks old *
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