She has nine now, and adopted two out — a mother and its baby — recently. Two of the guinea pigs, Pinky and Charlie, are her personal pets, but all the others that come and go from the 3-foot by 1-foot cages stacked around her living room are up for adoption.

Humphrey has adopted guinea pigs to families from as far away as Indianapolis and Bowling Green, Ky., after they find her Web link on petfinder.com.

The guinea pigs — currently Lucky, Fat Jack, Lloyd, Joey, June and Tulip — do get outside for a little exercise and some fresh dandelion greens. But Humphrey has to be careful — “a hawk will snatch them up in a minute.”

She said she always looks for squirrels before taking any of her furry boarders outside; if she sees the squirrels they can play, if not they stay indoors.

“We have hawks living on the back of our property,” Humphrey said.

She said the squirrels know better than she if the hawks are around.

Rescuedguineapigs.com is a project of the Sons of the American Legion. The organization allowed Humphrey to use their nonprofit tax codes for her effort, so that she didn’t have to fight through the red tape to get those herself.