After we lost both Aya and Hazel in October 2006, we found Noriko and her sister Saki to fill the huge void in our guinea pig family.  Noriko is a real sweetheart, and she usually gets along with Saki really well.  She loves to be petted and loves food, but her favorite thing to do is probably lounge in her sleeping bag all day!

       We got Noriko and her sister Saki on October 29, 2006 after visiting many pet stores until we found just the right guinea pigs for us.  They were so tiny when we got them, but it didn't take long for them to grow to be just as big as our other guinea pigs were.  Noriko is probably the more dominant out of the two of them, but that's mainly because she is the more outgoing one.  It is really nice to have a guinea pig that wheeks again, as all our others eventually stopped doing that as they got older.  Noriko and Saki get along really well, just as long as Saki doesn't try to go into the same sleeping bag as her sister.  Noriko screams and screams until we eventually go over and pull Saki out of the bag.  These two are really fun to watch play, though, and Noriko made a great first impression when we first got them by running straight into the walls of the cage.

       Noriko reminds me a lot of Caramel in some ways, but I'm not really sure why because they really aren't alike at all.  Everyone always comments on how much they love her coloring, and the white fur that circles around her face.  Noriko is a very sweet guinea pig and I hope that we have both her and Saki for many years to come because they are a wonderful addition to our piggy family.