Re: A dog isn't just for Christmas...
"In any case, my guinea pig pet is a Bolivian's fav stew."
I have a 1930s UK published Homekeeping book. It has a large pet care section. And a good section on keeping guinea pigs as pets. The last paragraph of which reads "In flavour they are rather like rabbit, but due to their small size are best opened out flat and fried with bacon".
Interestingly it doesn't refer to how to cook rabbits, though they have their own pet care section. Probably because in the 1930s it was so common as to not be worth writing about