Rodent Jeopardy!

Twitter mania! I am sponsoring a game of Rodent Jeopardy! on Twitter starting this Suday night. To join in the fun, use #RodentJeopardy. If you’re not already following me on Twitter, you should start! Find out when I’m eating, when I’m sleeping, I even tweet from the pool! @CaplinRous Rodent Jeopardy! rules: Anyone can play. […]

How to train humans

Lately I’ve had quite a few animal friends–anipals as we call each other–comment on how well-trained my humans are. In fact, my references to my female human as my owner seem almost ludicrous considering that the asymmetrical aspects of our relationship are all in my favor. If one of us owns the other, clearly I […]

Socially savvy capy

Me checking my social media. Don’t pretend you never saw an animal use the computer before! A fact that may surprise many humans is that the internet is slowly being taken over by animals. When you think about it, it makes sense. The internet is all about communicating interesting information from one–let’s call them “person”–to […]

Capybara in the classroom

What a great day I had Monday! To start off, my owner stayed home for the day. I love it when she does ’cause we spend so much more time together. Then it was raining, which I love because of the mud potential. But the best part was that I got to go visit a […]

The slow slide to nowhere

A strange thing happened this week: my life was changed by a photograph. I have some capy friends in Houston to blame for this. Their owner posted some photos of them on his FaceBook page and my owner saw it and seized on it. It became an obsession with her. Below you see one of […]

The slow slide to nowhere

A strange thing happened this week: my life was changed by a photograph. I have some capy friends in Houston to blame for this. Their owner posted some photos of them on his FaceBook page and my owner saw it and seized on it. It became an obsession with her. Below you see one of […]