We had a lovely Christmas card from the Surrey Squeakers with a piggy on the front! Here is a photo of it.
Hattie Piggyfriend said " That piggy looks just like me! I wonder who she is? Is she one of the Squeakers?"
We took a photo of Hattie in the same pose and tried to copy the props.
We have taken better photos but you get the idea! "Life imitating art" says Slave ( whatever that means....!)
We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with lots of treats.
Father Pigmas has been in the night and left treats for the Piggyfriends.
"Was that really Father Pigmas?" asks Benedict. " Doesn't he look a lot like our Valentine? I know that we were not meant to peek but I couldn't help it. He came down the chimney and left me this lovely big carrot."
"I will be busy eating this all day long."
Peaches comes running over to the other piggies. " Wake up piggies! Father Pigmas has been and left us all of these wonderful veggies."
Heidi leads all the piggies out to survey the bountiful supply of veggies. "Heidi," asks Peaches," How does Father Pigmas get all these veggies down the chimney?"
" That is done by magic," replies Heidi, " Christmas magic! Now I am going to eat this carrot. Come and join me all of you Piggyfriends."
The Piggyfriends would like to wish all of our readers a very Happy Christmas.
"Help!" says Dara."What is all this stuff and where is Declan?"
The two piggies look bemused until Slave tells them all about Christmas.
"So, if we have been good piggies, we will all get a treat in the morning?" asks Dara. "We are always good," says Declan, " because we are Peruvians."
Slave tells all of the piggies that Father Pigmas will come in the night and leave gifts.
"Sounds good to me," says Dara. "I can't wait until morning."
Dear Readers, if you have ever attempted to do a photo shoot with a guinea pig, especially one dressed in a very cute Hallowe'en costume (which the guinea pig may not have --- strictly speaking --- agreed to wear) and a collection of props, you may have already learned what I found out today.
Sometimes things do not go according to plan.
Here we have a basic set for a photo shoot: the letters are all still affixed to the background (that "a" in Happy may be backwards, but who pays attention to details like that?) and we have a few basic props appropriate to the holiday in the foreground. No piggy in sight, but that comes next...
Charlotte. the piggy model, has arrived! Not looking too pleased, but you can't keep everyone happy, and now the "w" in Hallowe'en seems to have fallen off and put back on a bit hastily upside down...
Now we have lost a few letters from the sign and Charlotte's headgear has slipped down over her eyes...
It looks as if the Director has figured out how to turn on those little pumpkins and they are now flashing, but not quite properly synchronized...
Ah! I'm afraid this might be as good as it gets, Readers! We have lost a few more letters but both pumpkins are flashing at the same moment and Charlotte is in the middle, still wearing her costume and glaring at the camera. Shall we quit while we are ahead? Perhaps that is for the best!
Happy Hallowe'en to all piggies and piggy people out there, and we hope no one dressed you up against your will and made you pigticipate in a photo shoot!
Here you can see our two mops...er Peruvians...Declan and Dara with the pumpkin. The leaf on the top has to be pressed to make it light up so we used a phone to hold it down. Much less dangerous than a real flame with all those whiskers around.
Happy Hallowe'en to all of our readers.
Slave took our Peaches to see Pauline at Pooh Piglets Rescue as she needed an extra pair of hands to deal with a sebaceous cyst. She had seen two lovely Peruvians on the rescue's Facebook page the previous week and never expected to find that they were still there but.....
.....there they were! A family had been to see them at the weekend, picked them up and cuddled them and then went home with two other pigs. Slave can never pick up a pig at Pauline's and leave him behind.
They had been handed in at the rescue all tangled and matted and Pauline had shampooed them and given them good haircuts.
Slave had gone to the rescue with her son as her car was at the mechanics so he held one piggy and she had the other. Then they swapped pigs. He went back to his car to fetch the extra carrier that always accompanies Slave to the rescue " just in case ".....and in they went to come home.
She has named them Dara and Declan. In the above photo, Dara is at the front. He is alleged to be eight months old and has some white hair in his coat so it is easy to tell them apart.
In this photo, Declan is at the front. He is reputed to be two years old. They are not related but are the very best of friends. Slave has trimmed their fringes so that she can see their dear little faces and they can see out. They are lovely little guys who are obviously used to being handled and are the typical laid back Peruvians who are easy to pose for a photograph but, having dark faces, their eyes do not show up that well.
Please welcome these little fellows to Piggyfriends.
Hello, everyone! I'm the newest Prairie Pig and my name is Padraig, which is an Irish name (you say it something like "Porrig" unless you are Auntie Penny who speaks Irish and can somehow also sneak a "d" in there through the back door). Actually, it was Auntie Penny (even though she lives thousands of miles away!) who alerted Pig Mum that there was a guinea pig on the website of her local humane society shelter. And of course, Pig Mum loaded her carrier into the car right away and went out there to get me!
So far I really like it here. I have friends now, and I get to visit with the other six Prairie Pigs twice a day at cage cleaning time. Also, the food is pretty good! See? We get red pepper twice a day!!!
And Ernie loaned me his extra little wooden house so I have a cozy place to sleep.
Do you folks know about this stuff? It's called grass and it is the most delicious food I have ever eaten! It's my new favourite thing in the world!
That's my story so far. I am looking forward to meeting everyone out there in Blog Land, so write in soon to say hello and tell me about yourself!
