Our elderly guinea pig, Sequoia. She lived to be eight and a half years old, but lost the use of her hind legs in her last weeks. We bathed her every day in the bathroom sink to keep her hindquarters clean. She was delighted by dandelions until her last day. In this photo, our veterinarian friend, Diana, has just given her a sedative preparatory to putting her to sleep. Our youngest, 11, could not remember a time without Sequoia burbling around. She outlived her cage mate, Piglet, by about three years.