1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Cloud Kicker (critialcloudkicker) http://rainbowdash.net/critialcloudkicker http://rainbowdash.net/notice/4179139 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://quitter.se/weerosie" class="url" title="weerosie"><span class="fn nickname mention">weerosie</span></a></span> If you want to pet them a lot I can recommend short-haired ones, long haired ones just get messy a whole lot. Not to mention that when they inevitably do crawl up your sleeves its actually somewhat fun and not somewhat sandpaper. I speak from experience. It has been too long since I had a guinea pig ( not to mention the geographical difference ) where I can recommend a boy over a girl ( or vice versa ) though.