Butternut Squash; we don't get it either

Dear Ghost and Penny,

I have no idea. When our staff purchased a so called butternut squash back in January, she couldn't stop giggling. And to make it worse, she made these pigtures. Humans are so weird.

No offense meant, miss Penny. I've been told that you're one of the kindest humans on the web. I  hope you feel better soon. Veggies picked out by home shoppers sounds horrible. Some things are too important to be left to others ;-)

Yours truly,

Aagje (you can call me Aggie if Aagje is too hard)

See! Totally different!

The indignity

Don't tell me this face isn't cuter than than the butternut squash!

Friday Video: Your Guinea Pig Pal

How cute is this video? A quick note though; licking stones are not neccesary, and don't keep us with rabbits. It's much better to pair us up with another guinea pig. A good shelter can help you with this!


Have a nice Wheekend!

Friday Video: Love Your Pet Day

Today is love your pet day!
Our J just told us that we make the whole house livelier with our antics and that is why she loves us. So spill the beans, why do you love your pet?



We hope you all have a Lovely day, and Wheekend ofcourse ;-)

Meet the new girls!

Winky team has new additions! Meet Esk and Aagje!

Despite her qualifications as an escape artist, Esk is short for Eskarina the first female wizard on the Discworld. Aagje is our Curious Georgina, or as we say in dutch: Nieuwsgierig Aagje, constanly investigating, licking and biting things. She's also quite the commentator, muttering to herself when she's scurrying around the cage.

Aagje and Esk come from the Knaaghof. A very nice animal shelter in The Hague. Someone dumped Esk and Aagje together with four other pigs at a play farm and the shelter took them in and nursed them back to health. The pigtures that you see in this post, come from the facebook page of the knaaghof. They graciously allowed us to use them here. We can really tell that they were treated well in the shelter. They are such sweet girls, and it is obvious that they are used to being handled. They behave so well when their nails and hair are cut, or when their ears are cleaned 

We are so happy with our herd of four (Ties, Bo, Esk and Aagje) we cannot imagine that we ever lived with only three pigs in our household (okay.. Coco had enough pigsonality for two. But still)

Friday Video: Tiny Hamster's Tiny Date

We know, we're a day early. But Happy Valentine's day everyone! We love you all! *smooches the internet*. May your weekend be filled with lots of of rumblestruts and sexy purring. Ow yes, and food. Because you all know the way to a guinea's hart is through our stomach.



Have a romantic Wheekend!

Friday Video: Homemade Guinea Pig Toys

We loved last wheeks friday video so much, we decided to find another one for you this wheek. We tried out several of the toys and it was great fun trying to get all the food out. Which ones did you try? Or which ones do you plan to try? Let us know in the comments!


Have a fun Wheek!

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!

Friday Video: Inside a Hamster's cheeks

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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 Video: DIY treats

We want this!



Have a nice Wheekend!

Friday Video: Cochon d'Inde Twix

Have you met Twix?



This cute pig does tricks too!



Have a nice Wheek!

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.”

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

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 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!

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 Video: Rollin' Safari

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



Have a nice Wheekend!

Friday Video: Massage

We want one! A massage, that is.



Has a nice Wheekend!

Friday Video: Peek a Boo

This is just too cute


Have a nice Wheekend!

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.