Good Golly Miss Molly

As part of Aiden's birthday present we got a guinea pig named Molly. She is a chocolate and white shorthair and is quite a character. She is quite a chatterbox, squeeking everytime she moves around the cage and when we have "laptime" she even purrs as we pat her. It only took her a little over a week to figure out the routine of being fed her veges twice a day before she started squeeking rather loudly and persistently when I am running late. Although I am the one feeding her twice a day she is still a bit skittish and will run away as I approach but when Aiden approaches the cage (usually jumping, squealing and generally being a feral 2 year old), Molly will come to him and actually stick her head through the cage trying to see if he has anything to feed her, and if he does she will eat it straight out of his hand. Introducing Molly:
And this was Molly's home that she had all to herself until....... a whole lot of Rosie joined us. Apparently guinea pigs require companionship so we always intended on getting two. After frequenting the pet shop on a VERY regular basis over the past few weeks they finally got some more GPs in and singled out a black, red & white shorthair for us. I think they thought that Molly was quite placid so they thought this new guinea pig would be a perfect companion (little did they realise that Molly is in fact a livewire). When you look at her she has a bit of red down one cheek making her look like she has rosy cheeks, thus the name Rosie. We have only had Rosie for 3 days so it is hard to judge her character just yet but she is definitley a little more mellow than Molly. Unfortunately for Rosie she has to learn to adapt to her new home and having us humans wandering about as well as deal with the whole dominance/submissive thing the guinea pigs have to work out (apparently that is natural). So far Molly seems to be doing all the hard work of approaching Rosie who just sits there and occasionally snaps at Molly. They make the wierdest noise known as "rumblestrutting". So at this point in time I'm not sure which one will end up being the dominant pig.
Here are some pics of the first meeting between the girls (Rosie on the left, Molly on the right):

On to a little side matter, I will say this on public record only once - I am an idiot! Yes I know you find it hard to believe... Anyway, I worked out the reason it was taking so long to upload the additional photos was because I had forgotton to reduce them in size so I was comparing the time to upload a 2MB photo with uploading a 100kB photo - DOH! So as you can see this post actually has more than one photo.