Friday, January 30, 2015

Friday Video: DIY Guinea Pig Toys

There are some really great ideas in this video! Don't forget to supervise your pigs while they play with the toys



Have a nice Wheekend!

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

New Guinygirl: Peaches

We got a new friend, named Peaches, end of october...

This is what she looked like at the shelter.
She was observing everything curiously from her house

Slaves tried to bond us three with her.
She was curious, but very fierce,
teeth chattering and even snorting at us

As this led to a lot of agitation, we were separated.
Peaches turned out to be very scared, also for our slaves.
We had to find out who our new boss was after Daisy died.

Peaches got used to slaves, but also got really bored.
Bonding attempts failed...

At the end of the Christmas holidays, slaves tried to bond us again
Their plan was as follows:
1. Put all of us in a big run on neutral ground, with a fence in the middle. Peaches on one side, us three on the other side. They kept us in the run the whole afternoon, after about an hour it settled down a bit.
Having hay near the middle fence really helped there (Food = distraction and eating = social activity)!
2. The next day we switched sides. Again we were distracted with food.
3. Later that day the fence was opened, both the middle and the surrounding fence. This way we were given a bigger area to explore and to get to know each other. This way we could get away from each other if we wanted to. Berke did a great job protecting his ladies Woopy and Roos.
4. The fenced of area was closed again, making the area with all four of us smaller again. Again Berke kept doing a good job, and at some point Peaches accepted that. Victory!
5. We were put together in a thoroughly cleaned cage.


All four of us together in our cage!
Sorry for the bad picture quality. Roos is in stealth mode.
Her red brown color and the red brown cage wall
make her practically invisible.
Slaves had a hard time putting us together, and they want to say keep trying as long as nobody gets really hurt (blood drawn). Also don't try to separate us too quick, Mikey found it really hard to not separate us once we started chattering and nipping at each other.

Greetings from our cage!
The guinygirlz
Woopy, Roos, new girl Peaches and boar Berke

Friday, January 16, 2015

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Friday Video: Cochon d'Inde Twix

Have you met Twix?



This cute pig does tricks too!



Have a nice Wheek!

Sunday, January 11, 2015

I am 6!!

Agent Minty here aka Polo Piggyfriend. It is my 6th. birthday so Slave decided I should have a bath in order that I looked nice and clean for my birthday photo. It is hard keeping a white coat smart. I have been a Piggyfriend since I was a tiny piglet.



“ I don’t mind having a bath especially when I got a slice of apple to munch whilst I dried by the fire.”






“ When I was dry, Slave gave me this fresh grass to munch. Grass is in short supply at this time of year so I shared it with my friend, Dorian as he is nearly 5 1/2.”







“ After eating all that lovely grass we both needed a nap.”


Saturday, January 10, 2015

Agent Zeppelin

He does it again! Which way is agent Zeppelin facing? Is it left or right? Get guessing!


P.s. We forgot Friday Video yesterday, we'll post that later this wheek. Our apologies

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Good News and Bad News

Here’s agent Zeppelin with bad but also with good news.

Pepper
 I’m very sorry to tell you that the lovely miss Pepper passed away last Wednesday. Since October she had painkillers and antibiotics to suppress an abcess in her chin. Three weeks ago the vet opened the abcess because she was in a lot of pain. Despite the hard work of D and mister B, they cleaned the wound two times a day, she felt worse every day. So D and mister B decided to help her cross the Rainbow bridge just before Christmas Eve.

Geny
 We miss the lovely girl very much but it’s not good to be alone too long, so after a few days I went to the Kuufke shelter where I (and Pepper) used to live. And there she was, a lovely white sheltie girl from around 3 years old with mysterious red eyes. It was love at first sight as you can see on the pigture. Her name is Geny and she will introduce herself later but for now she is still a bit shy.

Love at first sight?
 Bye miss Pepper, we will never forget you xx

Friday, January 2, 2015

Friday Video: Rollin' Christmas

To quote the Piggyfriends; we are all available if they need round and fat piggies for the next one!


Have a happy Wheekend and a great 2015!

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Happy Holidays Everyone

" Mine, all mine!!!" says Garnet Piggyfriend.




"We are only having a little piggy joke. " says Petunia. " Every Slave knows that piggies must not eat candy canes." " Especially these ones." chuckles Garnet. " They are made of glass and we are going to hang them on our tree."




" Let's put up our sign, Garnet." says Petunia.






" This is our seventh Pigmas at Piggyfriends, " chorus the two little friends " so we have the honour of wishing everypig and everyslave a wonderful holiday season. We hope that you all have loads of treats and lots of fun and love."





" Nolllaig shona, " says Slave. " Yuletide greetings everyone and happy whatever else you might be celebrating."

Friday, December 19, 2014

Friday Video: Rollin' Safari

What if animals were round?
...
They'd be more like guinea pigs!



Have a nice Wheekend!

Friday, December 12, 2014

Friday Video: Massage

We want one! A massage, that is.



Has a nice Wheekend!

Friday, December 5, 2014

Sunday, November 30, 2014

November Piggies of the month: Revy and Abby roo

Just in time before the end of the month November: 
our calendar piggies are Revy and Abby-Roo of the CaliCavyCollective.


Be sure to visit their website: www.calicavycollective.com


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Ahoy! Revy here along with my sidekick Abby-Roo. I was quite excited to be chosen as this month's calendar piggy - even if I do have to share it with my cage mate. Now, onto the story of how we got our names and Undercover Agent aliases...


I received my name from my foster mom at Orange County Cavy Haven guinea pig rescue. My feisty, domineering personality and rocking awesome eye patch reminded her of a pirate. While casting about for names of female pirates she came up with Revy. The name stuck. My forever home humans had some thoughts of renaming me but realized Revy was the perfect name once the new home shyness wore off and my charming true self emerged. Good thing too, because I certainly didn't fancy being stuck as yet another "Oreo". Naturally, it followed that my undercover alias became Agent Pirate. 




My first mate Abby-Roo (yes, she is currently my only shipmate.. my plans for crew expansion and naval domination shall commence as soon as I finish devouring this lettuce leaf.. and that one... and what's left of hers... oh, and take a nap...) landed at a local shelter with the unfortunate name of Sonic. Our humans met her at Cavy House Guinea Pig Rescue and recruited her to be my ship - er, cage mate. Both agreed that her name had to go as she did not in any way resemble a blue male hedgehog. A flurry of increasingly absurd potential names followed: Lily, Jasmine, Brie, Frosting, Popcorn, Barley, and even Tofu were considered before they finally went to have lunch. Needless to say, I was snickering in my pigloo.


After a good meal (and the return of common sense), they finally settled on Abby-Roo, short for Abyssinian Peruvian. They thought Roo also suited her because her rooster tail-like butt fluff kept smacking me in the face. I may or may not have tried to bite it a few times but that is another story. They gave her the undercover alias of Agent Kermodei because her ivory coat reminded them of the white spirit bears that live in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest.


And there you have it! Agent Pirate, reporting out.

Friday, November 21, 2014

Friday Video: Kitten Therapy

We have just one question? Why hasn't anyone filmed guinea pigs making their owners happy and relaxed? Our J relaxes when she hears us munching hay or when we snuggle up to her.


Have a stress-free Wheekend!

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Chaos at Piggyfriends. The Epilogue

Hi all,

Sorry this post is so late, mum is ill and totally forgot to post this for auntie Penny.

The Guinygirlz: Woopy, Roos and Berke
and the new girl...

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The builders have finished today just in time for Slave's birthday. Here is a picture of the outside of our room. If you enlarge it you can just see some of our pens on the right hand side.



And here is another one of the back of our room.



We are all very pleased that everything is back to normal again. It has taken a very long time, much longer than it should have but we hope that you have enjoyed our little story.

Cast list is as follows....... 
Bosworth was played by Agent Plantagenet
Florence was played by Agent Firenze
Angelina was played by Agent Mouse.
Lotte and Lola were played by Agents 88
Susie was played by Agent Gemini
Otto was played by Agent Mystery
Garnet was played by Agent Big Red
Petunia was played by Agent Flower
Polo was played by Agent Minty
Dorian was played by Agent Silver Streak
Gandalf was played by Agent Wizard.
Max, Tyrion and Rafferty were played by themselves.

Director and Chief Photographer was Agent Firenze.
Catering by our Slave.

THE END.

Friday, November 7, 2014

Friday Video: Dear Kitten

First of all, our apologies that we didn't post a video last wheek. But we were really busy and Agent Yougie and Popcorn's pigtures were just sooo cute, that we thought it wouldn't be that bad to give them the spotlight on our blog for a bit longer (thank you, agents! You really saved our furry behinds there)



Have a nice Wheekend!

P.s. Indeed Woopy, Roos and Berke, there is something stirring in the Winky team haystack
P.p.s. two somethings actually ;-)

Thursday, November 6, 2014

This and that

Hi all,

There are two things our slaves asked us to share.

First, Mieke will not make an Undercover Guinea Pigs Calendar for 2015.
We haven't recieved much replies yet, thank you to the ones who did send in pigtures.
And if our slave is honest, it really is quite some work, and she decided to not do it this year, maybe next year...

Secondly, we had word from M and the boys. They have succesfully moved house!

The boys now have a great patch of grass for summer! Unfortunately they don't have a good internet connection yet, that will take a few more weeks.
They are all doing well.

Wheeks and piggy kisses,
Woopy, Roos and Berke

p.s. There seems to be a piggy around that looks a bit like our beloved agent F....

p.s. 2 Auntie J, of Bo and Ties, keeps sending pigtures to mom as well, she keeps ooh-ing and aah-ing... What would that be about?