Humphrey

We had to put down my classroom Guinea Pig Humphrey yesterday.  He had stopped eating and drinking and just looked awful.  We took him up to the clinic and Niles tried a couple of things, but nothing seemed to work.  I am not looking forward to having to tell my kids at school.  He was my thing.  I'm not an easy teacher, a funny teacher, I was the teacher with Humphrey:)  We've had him for 6 years.  He made the trip from Oklahoma to Colorado with us.  I named him after a Sequoya book award the year we got him.  A book about a classroom hamster called The World According to Humphrey.  Most pigs hide all the time and are not very social, but Humphrey loved to come right up to kids.  We talked a lot. I speak Guinea pig, and I am 100% not joking that I could talk to that pig!  I will miss him keeping me company at school.  I also feel really bad for Niles.  Humphrey was our first pet that Niles has had to put down himself.  Here are a few pics of "Fluffy" as Carter called him.