Guinea Pigs Don't Bounce (ePub)

Guinea Pigs Don't Bounce

Guinea Pig's Don't Bounce relates the memorable first year (2003-04) in the

development of pet care company Animals at Home. A nationwide success story

today, with nearly 60 area franchises, AAH's beginnings were very much a leap into

the unknown by husband and wife team, Denis and Shelley Chirgwin, who had left

behind the financial security and certainties of life in the Surrey suburbs to move to

the Isle of Wight and launch a business venture - looking after animals in their own

home while the owners were away - which was far removed from their previous

experience

Denis's diary entries during that first year form the basis for this account of the

fledgling business. The couple's encounters with the extraordinarily diverse

assortment of animals - and owners - were full of interest, incident and eye-opening

insights into family life. The stories are candid, laced with humour - animals do the

funniest things but so, sometimes, do the people looking after them! - and not without

pathos. Time and again, the importance of pets to the lives of those who own them is

underlined.

The diary extracts are augmented by reflective passages as the author looks back on

subsequent related events and developments, while the text is colourfully illustrated

throughout by a selection of cartoon images depicting some of the most memorable

incidents.