The Gift of Abandoning Hope

This is Gus. He was probably the greatest guinea pig I’ve ever known. And as you can see in this pic, he was pretty annoyed at the time. I think it was because he’d just realized that I had no more carrots to give him. That, and he tended to give me this look when he was ready to go back into his cage and I’d been selfish with my own desire to cuddle him. It’s easy to misread the moment and to force our own will on others.