Serafina, Tiny Halloween Dragon Lady

Look who got to wear the dragon costume for Halloween this year!  I am not really quite large enough yet to fill it out, but don't I look frightening?  (Or maybe a little bit frightening, if you tilt your head just right???)

Yes, Readers, it's me, Serafina!  Pig Mum was considering who would get to be the Prairie Pig Spokesmodel for Halloween this year, and then realized how close Halloween was going to be to my first birthday.  I don't remember my birthday very well so I could not say exactly which day it was, but Pig Mum came to adopt me from the local shelter at the end of November last year, and the shelter folks thought I was about a month old at the time.  I was a teeny tiny little piggy girl at the time, only about 100 grams!

So Pig Mum decided that I, as birthday girl, should get to star in our Halloween photo shoot this year, and I even got to choose which costume to wear (of course, it was the dragon one!).  I think people tend to not take guinea pigs seriously enough because we are small and cute, but everyone has to take a dragon seriously (unless they want to risk being toasted by fiery dragon breath)!  

 The Prairie Pigs want to wish everyone out there a Happy Halloween -- may you all get to wear your favourite costume, too, and come home with lots of tasty treats!

Happy Hallowe'en to our readers!

 It is Hallowe'en and Heidi Piggyfriend is being attacked by a vampire bat!!

 Don't worry though. This is a friendly toy bat and you can see him at the back of the photo.

We hope you have a safe and happy Hallowe'en. 

Bowls and Cozies -- What Fun !

We are still masters of disappearing when our mom tries to take a photo (particularly Sephora!), but she has managed to get pigtures of us eating and relaxing.  That makes sense, because those are two of our favourite activities!

Here I am, Capy, arranging my bowl at the perfect angle so I can enjoy my pellets and water at the same time,  Well, I was originally trying to hide.  Does that count as clever?  I do hope so, because I would like to be a clever pig.

Not to be outdone, here I am, Sephora, showing the right way to relax on a sofa.  Yes, there is a technique, and I think I define it.  It might not look like it, but this takes a lot of work.  Relaxing, working.  Get it? LOL!  I want to be a pig with a sense of humour.

We brought the bowl with us when we came to live with our mom (our foster mom bought it for us), but the sofa, we hear, has belonged to a long line of our brothers before us.

Our mom has been trying to take more pictures, but we keep eluding her!

Yours friends,

Capy and Sephora

Another Trip to Bermuda Chapter Two.

Hello Shannon, Ceilidh and Slaney. We are here in Bermuda and those in-flight snacks were just enough to keep us going until we landed.

 Here we are looking at some flowers. We sent this photo to the Piggyfriends too.

And this was taken at the harbour with Daddy Slave.

 

He took us there to see this special boat, which had come all the way from France. We think that flying is better as there is an awful lot of sea out there.

Then the humans went to a restaurant but we had to hide under the table as piggies are not really allowed inside.

 

So Mummy Slave took this photo outside. Then we went to look at a statue of a deep sea diver.

 

Can you see us sitting on the base? He was very big! Look at all that green grass waiting for piggies to come and eat it.

We are going to the beach next.

 Just look at all that lovely white sand and the turquoise sea!

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 Now the Plushy Piggies are back home and they are telling the Piggyville Girls all about their adventures.

 

 

Another Trip to Bermuda. Chapter One

 

The Piggyville Girls are concerned that their humans are packing to go away on a trip. They have left these books about Bermuda here.

Slaney, Shannon and Ceilidh decide to have a read of the books to see if this is where their family are going.

"I expect that we will have to stay here," says Shannon. "Aunty Karen might be asked to look after us but our plushy friends, Pinky and Brownie, will be going and they can tell us all about their travels." 

Maybe the Piggyville Girls can help the Plushy Piggies pack their suitcase....

 ......they have put a lot of veggies into that bag!

 Shannon wonders if there might just be room for this cucumber. Or maybe she could eat it instead.

The plushies repack the suitcase. The Piggyfriends hope that veggie smuggling is not illegal in Bermuda but that might just be a snack for the flight. Brownie and Pinky are happy with their packing and it is time to set off for the airport.  

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"Come here guys," says Heidi Piggyfriend. " The Plushy Piggyville Girls are on holiday in Bermuda and have sent us a photo. " They say that our Slave might like to see these flowers as she is a gardener. Isn't that kind?"

Springtime Festivals at Piggyfriends.

 Today we are celebrating Beltane and May Day.

 

This is Slave's Green Man, who heralds all the green growth of Spring. We have many well behaved boars here, who will pose nicely for a photo.

Here is Rafael doing an impersonation of a Green Man looking out from the greenery and he shared the kale with his brother, Valentine, afterwards. 

A big pile of wood has been gathered along our road for a Beltane Fire but, with all these whiskers around, Slave decided that we would not be having one of our own. She says that lighting a candle for Peter is fraught with enough danger. 

We are also celebrating May Day. Slave wishes that more of our sows would behave nicely enough to be our May Queen and wear a flowery crown. Of course Heidi willl always sit still for the camera but Slave says that we cannot use her every time as she was our Easter piggy. 

Hattie and Honeysuckle are always running around madly so, although she was our St. Patrick's Day choice, Peaches had to be our victim as May Queen.

 The above photo turned out quite well....

 .....and so did this one once Slave had cropped the cushion that stopped her from running off the end of the sofa.

The out-takes are always worth a laugh. Don't worry readers. Hawthorn ( May ) leaves are perfectly safe for both piggies and humans to eat and Peaches enjoyed some of these.

Peaches had had enough by then and trashed the set so we called it a day.

May Day and Beltane greetings to all of our friends. It is wonderful to say goodbye to winter and to have lovely fresh, green grass to eat again. ;

A Prairie Easter Greeting from Our Serafina

Hello, everyone!   It's me, Serafina, the smallest, speediest and most beautiful of the Prairie Pigs (if I do say so myself).  It took such a long time, but all of that snow and ice has finally melted and the sun is shining, so we are ready to celebrate Spring and Easter, the beginning of green things growing and all kinds of new life.

This is a pigture of me wearing the traditional Prairie Pig Easter Bonnet with some close personal friends (not any of the other Prairie Pigs unfortunately --- Pig Mum said she could only deal with one model at a time who was likely to try to leap off the edge of the set or eat the props).  I was very good and sat quietly for almost thirty seconds, and then I was whisked back to my cage where I got a big helping of cilantro!  If Pig Mum had mentioned the cilantro reward ahead of time, I might have been able to hold still for a whole minute...

I am enjoying life as a Prairie Pig!  Pig Mum thinks I might be a "Sheltie" because I have beautiful long locks but they grow back off my face and not forwards like Lovely Rita's Peruvian coat. I have a big girl cage now and my boyfriend Padraig lives right next door and keeps me company.  We get to visit the other Prairie Pigs in the pig room sometimes while our cages are being cleaned, but our room gets lots of sun and it's right at the top of the stairs so when snacks are delivered, we get them first!

All of us Prairie Pigs want to wish everyone out there a very Happy Easter with lots of sun, warm weather and maybe a chocolate bunny or some fresh grass as a special treat!