We are 6!

Two of the Piggyfriends are six years
old today. Who can they be?

Wake up sleepy piggies. It's your birthday today!

Agent Big Red and Agent Bouquet aka Garnet 
and Petunia are enjoying their birthday breakfast

Are all these veggies for us? 
Our favourites - Carrot and Chicory!

Chicory is good to eat and 
makes good party hats too!

This has been a good birthday. Shall we share
the remains with our friends Garnet?
I think that would be a nice idea Petunia.

Garnet and Petunia have been at Piggyfriends since they were little piglets. In case you are wondering about Petunia's coat, she was part of a huge RSPCA rescue. All the little piggies had dreadful coats and, although most of her coat grew back in, she has always had a couple of bare patches. Garnet was unwanted by his breeder as he has slight entropion, which doesn't bother him one bit. They are dearly loved members of the Piggyfriends clan.

Friday Video: Wet Dog

Sorry we're a bit late! We hereby present you a video of a wet dog:



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Agent Yougie and Agent Moon Bounce on a Pignic

Agent Yougie sets up the grill on a hot summer day.

Checking the temp!

"I'M HUNGRY!"

Agent Yougie enjoying the view.

Agent Moon Bounce has a few drinks and wonders when the food will be done.

Friday Video: Baby Duck Feeding the Carp

We'd like a friend like this..


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Working Breakfast

Agents Mystery and 88 get together over breakfast to discuss tactics.

Agent Mystery says that Slave is not very adept with her new camera and would like to tell readers that only he has red eyes, which are visible today as he has had a haircut

Friday Video: Greedy Pig Ormie

A pig, a fridge.. sound familiar.. anyone?



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Friday Video: More Dancing Guinea Pigs!

Hurray! The weather is nice, summer is here, slave (should be) spending less time at work! So let's dance!


And another one!


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Piggies of the Month: the Gekke Flappies

Hi all,

We are so excited that we’ve been chosen for this calender. Our slave takes pigtures of us all the time and sometimes it’s very annoying but hey, don’t we look gorgeous this month?

Agent Zeppelin on a mission (or not..)

Synchronous sleeping

And what a great timing, Jimmy celebrated his 5th birthday yesterday, we had a big party at home. You’re are all invited as the party still continues, there will be plenty of carrot beer and chicory pie!

The birthday boy

The beautiful miss Pepper

Such a cutie

Before we take a nap again we wanted to thank you for voting for guineapig shelter ‘t Kuufke. As you may know, Jimmy spent the first 5 months of his life there before our slave fell in love with him. Pepper only spent a week there before slave matched her with Jimmy. And 3,5 years later, we still have a great time together!

Nom!

Beer houses!

Eating from the shelter of her beer house

Lots of love,

Jimmy and Pepper

Friday Video: the Guinea Pig and Bunny Dance

Get ready to dance!



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Piggie(s) of the Month: Roos

This month calendar piggy of the month is my own Roos!

Agent Tortoise having a nap,
Agent Wheeker can just be seen below

I think it was this pigture of unknown piggies to me,
that made us enthusiastic about the gorgeous red color
(golden agouti) the pig on the right has.

Roos came to us when she was a few months old.
When Chico died Mieke got her as a
birthday present for dad... they get along great

Roos is very sweet, and when she knows
you she looves a chin rub!

We really like this pigture as she looks so sweet,
and her color looks pretty much as it actually is.
Often it does not look so pretty in pigtures

Roos and Berke are almost the same age, and they love
 to do zoomies around the cage when fresh hay
is coming their way

When you pet her, or rub her nose she does the cutest thing. Once you stop rubbing she will lift her head as if to say ' Hey, don't stop!'...

Grtz, Mieke

Friday Video: Mouse Rover

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Friday Video: Guinea Pig World Cup Predictions

Most guinea pig owners have got football fever due to the World Cup. Some even go as far as to let us predict the scores.

Here are the English pig predictors:

And another one:

And this is a Dutch pig predictor (actual Dutch; not the coloring)

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Sharing...

It seems Daisy and Bérke finally decided they can share the bed.

Agent Zeppelin does it again!

We have another agent Zeppelin mystery! He has really outdone himself this time, with a brand new pose.

So get guessing, which side is he facing? Right or left?

Friday Video: Jenga Cat

Apparently cats can play Jenga. Or at the least, this one can. Well played, kitty.



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Another piggy bum

Here is Agent Mystery aka Otto. We can tell that this is his bum as a carrot is disappearing at the other end. Like Agent Zeppelin, we are often unsure as to which end is which. As long as he knows, then that's OK.

 

We are all worried that more us of are to be subjected to this indignity but, if there is a bonus carrot on offer, maybe we won't mind.

 

From the Piggyfriends.

 

 

Piggie Behinds

I've been enjoying this topic so much. All the piggies have beautiful behinds! Please keep them coming.

I used to take a lot of pictures of my herd. There was always a point where they were just done with the session. The following pictures are the result. I've entitled the file "pigs as they wish to be seen." Looking at them always makes me chuckle! (The fronts were cute too.)

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.

Roxanne

More Piggy Bums - Agents 88

When we enlisted to be Undercover Agents, we thought that it would involve something with a little more excitement and a lot less embarrassment but we do have lettuce leaves in front of us so it can't be all bad.

 

This is Lotte Piggyfriend on the left and Lola is on the right or is it vice versa? I'm Lotte and you are Lola - oh no I'm not...........

 

 

Friday Video: X-men Cute Kitten Version

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Mostly (Daisy's) Bum(s)...

...so our mom tried to get pigtures of our bums as well...

She thinks Daisy has the cutest bum, so she took this one..

and these ones...

and this one

We tried to avoid having our pigture taken, so she only managed to get these blurry ones so far...

Woopy caught of guard

Roos, with flash...not her best shot

To be continued... we're afraid

The Guinygirlz and Berke

Calendar piggies of the Month: Kimba and Teddy

Some of you (probably the ones who read the GPDD) will know that this months Piggies' of the Month owner is really busy trying to keep her piggie Kimba alive. As we don't want to disturb her too much, I asked her permission to tell you a bit about what I know of the piggies of the month Teddy and Kimba, who is having health problems.

Teddy

"I did have a piggy called Teddy, who died in 2005 from a twisted gut, on Boxing Day, and I was away for Christmas and my mother had to rush him to emergency, etc. The lady who is the Australian Sales representative for Oxbow Products knows me, from way back when I had Teddy, and she's seen Teddy's photo and has never forgotten him, or me. Teddy was a pure breed Coronet, and I have some of the most stunning photos of a piggy I've ever seen.

I would like to boast to my GPDD forever friends over my gorgeous boy. I loved him so much, I had him cremated, and he is with me and my best friend dog called Tess, who I had for 15 years. Tess was also cremated, and strange as it might seem, having their ashes with me gives me some comfort. When I die, Teddy and Tess will be joining me in the casket so we all cross the Rainbow Bridge together and meet with all my other piggies at the other side."

Kimba

"I am enclosing a photo of Kimba, and it's a very special photo because it shows him as he is getting over his ill health and just starting to eat again. As he is over 5 years old now, I would love to honour him so much for his love, his determination not to give in, for his cuddles, and for dealing with his grief at losing Snowdrop and transferring all his love and cuddles to me, his mummy"

Kimba developed dental problems at the beginning of this May month, despite visits to the vet no good cure has been found for him yet. Almost a month later Kimba is still with Julie (as far as I know), she is doing her very best to keep him alive. I hope you will all join in sending healing wheeks to Kimba and all our support to Julie!
"I’m still struggling to keep Kimba with me. He is the most adorable, loving, cheeky, determined, adventuresome, snuggly, cuddly, adorable, joyous piggy I’ve known. He loves me to bits, I love him to bits, so between us there is a huge lot of love.

I’ve been fighting God for Kimba’s life now for 27 days, and I’m starting to feel that God is going to win this one. I’m dead on my feet and have no brain anymore, and certainly sleep is very very elusive to me. I had a one-track mind, it’s all Kimba, Kimba, Kimba, yet I forget to check on Sooty & Treacle at times."

Keep up the good work, Julie and Kimba!
Mieke

Guinea Pig Bottoms: Pepper and Jimmy

Pepper and Jimmy (aka agent Zeppelin) also joined in with some pigtures of their bottoms!

In case you're wondering, you're looking at Jimmy's bottom

Cute paws

Isn't he lovely?

Pepper

Pepper same some lumps surgically removed a while ago, that is why she has such an original hairstyle. We are happy to report that Pepper is doing great and that she is as feisty as ever.

Thank you Pepper and Jimmy!

Hamuketsu and Guinea Pig Bottoms

Japan has a new trend; hamster bottoms! What could be cuter than hamster bottoms? Well.. guinea pig bottoms, obviously

Ties and his crazy hair

Bo has a heart shaped bottom

Coco showing off her new haircut

And from our archives, our favorite bottom pigture

So, what do you think? Cuter than the hamsters?

Friday Video: Evolution of Pigs

We love the videos of Pigjes!


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p.s. you also might want to check out the Cavy Comics from Pigjes

Taking pictures

I guess all of you have tried to take pigtures of their piggies doing cute things... (Or am I the only crazy lady who does that?!?)
As most of you know Bérke is a new addition to our herd. He is about Roos her age and they seem to get along pretty well. They both love to do zoomies around the cage when new fresh hay is on the way. And Roos loves climbing on things, and I think she taught Bérke how to do this.

So there I was looking at the cage and I saw that Bérke was on the doll bed they have for the first time (to my knowledge). So obviously I wanted to take a pigture of him up there. This is what I got...

... an empty bed, Bérke had just jumped of the bed

It's too bad there is not a little leg still visible of him scurrying out of view. But later that evening, when it was getting darking, so unfortunately the quality is not that good, I found Bérke on the bed again...

 

ah, he likes to munch the hay up there

And I even got a pigture of him on the bed through the side, which is quite exceptional, as usually he runs away when I try to take pigtures of him. He can be scared quite easily and is also a master of making noise! At first we thought it was the girls showing their discomfort to Bérke chasing them all the time. But no, guess again, it is Bérke making all that noise.

 

Posing like a pro...

Do your pigs like to pose or do they run from the camera as well?

Mieke, slave the Guinygirlz and Bérke

Friday Video: the Boy Bits

After our informative series of video's about hair styling, we've selected a few video's about keeping your bottoms clean.

short video


Long video


We cannot get Swarfega in the Netherlands. There probably is something similar on the market, but for us the dishwashing soap works well enough. We also really like the idea of distracting us with veggies (short video). Other than that, our procedure is more similar to the long video. So there you have it ;-)

If you like the Gorgeous Guinea Products, you can visit their site here: www.gorgeousguineas.com

We also found a video on anal sack cleaning for boars

So there you have it.

Have a nice Wheekend!

*evil grin* Sorry, boys. We do apologize ;-)

Friday Video: Trimming Long Haired Guinea Pigs

There are several ways to cut a long haired guinea pigs' hair. So we've selected several video's that use different techniques.

Trimming with scissors


Trimming with scissors and a comb


Electric clippers


Trimming a guinea pig is not easy. As you can see, there are several ways to do it and we selected these video's because they all had parts that we liked. Even the squirmy pig in video 2, because that's what happens sometimes, especially with some pigs (we are not naming anyone, but you know who you are!)

Our hair stylist told us that she had to use different techniques for every pig that she styled. Jan the Boar really enjoyed his electric clippers. To him, it was just a slightly noisy massage. With Sjeuf, the stylist had to hold her fingers between his skin and the scissors (kinda like video 2, but without the comb) to fool him into being petted instead of getting a haircut (boy was he surprised). Coco is the favorite pig when it comes to hair styling; once she has a big pile of veggies, the hair stylist can do whatever she pleases, just as long as she ends up looking fashionable.