A Good Mama and Decent Human Being

If the rat is the Nixon of the rodent hierarchy, the Guinea pig is the Gerald Ford.

Biscuit and Spice. Photo Credit: Clif Meyer

My blue-eyed boy was begging for a Guinea.

“Please, Mama?”

His pleas triggered my phobia of scuttling, gnawing creatures. My husband was OK with a rodent as a pet. My consistent rebuttal was: “I have allergies.”…