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|summary=A tale of clued-in, connected pets that should have been a lot more warm and witty than it is.
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While most computers have a mouse with which to use thermthem, not all have a guinea pig to be used by. But in this particular house, where Fuzzy and Coco live with their humans, that's the case. They're quite technologically-minded - Fuzzy sings along to the radio while putting all manner of things in the food-blender for their owners. So when he vanishes, off to see his favourite TV chef, it's up to Coco to go online - where she doesn't find any of her worst fears about the truth lessened one bit.
While I can get my head round a book featuring guinea pig dialogue, and I can see warm pctures of them using a seesaw-shaped jump to get to higher levels in the home, too much of this is too loosely fantasy. They conme and go from their hutch as they please, and too much of the time we cannot see them as real animals. At least [[Mysteries According to Humphrey by Betty G Birney|Humphrey]] reads as a real hamster.
