Welcoming Spring

Here in Saskatchewan, where the Prairie Pigs live, it does not look too much like Spring yet, but the calendar says it starts today so we are hoping that Mother Nature has gotten the memo and will get a move on!  I am Arthur Pendragon and I am wearing my daisy costume to wish all the piggies and piggy people out there a happy first day of Spring.  Sunshine!  Flowers blooming!  Bees buzzing! We are looking forward to it all, and especially all those tender and tasty green shoots we will be nibbling on soon! 

 

The Piggyfriends live in England, where spring comes a bit earlier than in Canada. We have had a few sunny days, although it was very wet today and our Slave took this photo of some crocus in the garden when the sun was shining. There is even a little bumblebee in one of the flowers. Can you see him?

Happy St.Patrick's Day!

All of the Piggyfriends want to wish their readers a Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Here is Bella, dressed for the occasion.

We will be eating lots of green food in honour of the day.

"Actually we have green food every day but maybe this is an opportunity to eat even more. Grass is beginning to grow after a very long winter and Slave will be going out with her shears to make sure that we can take advantage of it." says Bella.

REMEMBERING PETER GURNEY

Coke here, helping remember Peter Gurney on behalf of my brothers, Scottie and Fitz, and myself! Our dad lit candles at 8 p.m. on Mr. Gurney's birthday, March 9th, and shortly after, my mom took this photo. I hope you like the guinea-pig candle and the plush guinea pig, too. In the background you'll see two of Mr. Gurney's books. Our mom says she will read them to us, so we are excited. My brothers and I were very happy and honored to participate in this event in remembrance of Peter Gurney and other beloved friends and family who have passed on.

The Prairie Pigs Light a Candle

This year, Ernie was chosen as Guardian for our Peter Gurney Memorial Candle.  We love to think of that garland of piggies and piggy people, all standing faithfully by their candles around the world and taking a few moments to think happy memories of the friends (both furry and human) who are waiting for us at the Rainbow Bridge.  We will meet again!

Candle Lighting for Peter Gurney 2023

Every year our guinea pig community have a candle lighting ceremony, which we hold on March 9th. at 8 pm in our relative time zones. This day was chosen because it was the birthday of Peter Gurney, a tireless guinea pig advocate and the author of many of the piggy books that we use.

This year we chose our big black boar, Fionn, to light our candles and he was rewarded with this nice fresh grass.

Our Slave once met Peter when he signed his Piggy Potions book for her and our Rodentologists ( now sadly retired ) knew him well from working at the Cambridge Cavy Trust.

Happy Birthday Peter Gurney

 

Hi Peter,

My name is Ceilidh and my blonde sister is called Shannon. Our Mum has been telling us how she learned to care for cavies from your book, Piggy Potions. Your book and the lessons she learned changed her life.

It led her to the CCT, the Cambridge Cavy Trust, where she studied how to provide healthcare to piggies using both conventional medicines and herbal remedies. You taught her how a little bit of honey helps the medicine go down. It is yummy too!!

You also taught her that there is often more than one way to go about solving a health problem. That advice set her off on a journey to learn from rodentologists and other lovers of guinea pigs from around the world how to provide the best care. She has all of your books and often sheds a tear when reading them. She explained to us that you have gone over the Rainbow Bridge and that you are looking after all the piggies until we can join them one day.

Happy Birthday from the Piggyville Girls of North Carolina, U.S.A.

New friends for the Guinygirlz Linn and Coco!

 This was on 25 February, we, guinygirlz Coco and Linn, visited a shelter in the south of the Netherlands. There we met the black and handsome boar Beer and sow Muffin. Both are teddies, Beer is a CH teddy and Muffin a US teddy. Coco started washing Muffin's eyes and ears within 15 minutes of meeting her. Beer was happily rumbling away and love to lie down next to his girls, especially Linn!

We love the new cuddle cup mom bought at the shelter, there's usually one, two or even three of us inside it!

These are the new pigs shelter mugshots

They joined our crew because sadly our boar Stevie suddenly passed away in a wheekend, so we will remember him especially during upcoming Peter Gurney memorial on 9 March.

Mom tried her hand at needle felting a piggy, based on a tutorial on Youtube. This again got its inspiration of the series available on (dutch) Netflix: Pui Pui Molcars, do look it up it's so cute according to mom and dad, and the guinea pig sounds are spot on!

 Their favorite is the ambulance/police car sound.

Many wheeks from the guinygirls:

Coco, Linn, Muffin and boar Beer

Candle Lighting Day is nigh.

 Hello Readers. Bella Piggyfriend here.

 

 

 

Just a reminder that March 9th. will be Candle Lighting Day. Readers of the GPDD will have been bombarded by the organisers so they will not be allowed to forget but, for other people, this is the day when we remember our guinea pigs, other pets of any kind, and our humans, sadly no longer with us, by lighting a candle at 8pm. and leave it burning for an hour or as long as you like.

We, at Piggyfriends, hope that you will join us.