Cheesecake, the 5,000th animal rescued by Wee Companions, is a guinea pig that came to us with a residual head tilt after two courses of antibiotics. After observing her behavior, we suspected some other issues. The vet confirmed that Cheesecake is basically blind and deaf. She may see some differences between light and dark. Although Cheesecake does make fairly normal guinea pig sounds, the volume is always quite low, and she was very reserved, almost lethargic. We were concerned about that so we introduced her to another guinea pig. She came to life after they sniffed each other! We watched her popcorn and run all around their pen, then they stopped long enough to share some hay, before taking off to play chase again. Cheesecake now lives with a group of “special needs” guinea pigs.