cuddling

A couple of times tonight, while I was holding Reese, he pressed himself into my neck.  My best friend told me once that they do that as babies.  They'll tuck themselves under there mother's chin.  I think it's a security thing.  They feel safe there.

Well, as I said, I picked him up and settled him on my chest.  After a while, he moved toward my neck, and then snuggled himself in, while I petted him.  I held him like that for quite a while, and he seems very happy.  After I put him back, he was running around his cage making happy noises.  He also was hopping, called "popcorn".  It's where a pig jumps straight up in the air and it how they express that they are happy.  They only go up a couple of inches, so you don't have to worry about them harming themselves.

He's also been coming closer to me a few times.  His cage sits right next to where I sit at my computer.  He's come up to the bars and, when I put my fingers slowly inside the bars, he stretched his neck out and cautiously sniffed my fingers.  He's also nibbled on my fingers a few times, which is a good sign that he's losing his fear of me.

The only down thing, is that I have a slight allergic reaction to guinea pigs.  my skin turns red and I can get little bumps.  But it's so very slight and well worth it to have a happy pigs and to feel his tiny warm body against me.