Cuyes

I told you before about cuyes (guinea pigs) and how they eat them in Latin America. Well, my family has a cage full of them in our yard. I don’t know if you can actually call it a yard if you don’t have any grass but from here on out I’ll stick to that word to describe the hardened dirt ground that sits outside the back of our house.
My family isn’t huge on eating cuy but it is definitely the top choice for holidays and celebrations. We’ve got a bunch of them, the small guys are really cute. One lives outside the cage running around the yard and hiding out behind things. Not sure how he got out of the cage but he moves really fast and is impossible to catch so we just let him do his own thing. Surprisingly enough he hasn’t escaped. Hmmm, maybe one day I’ll set him free! (If you look close you can see him hidding behind the cardboard box.)