We had a lovely Christmas card from the Surrey Squeakers with a piggy on the front! Here is a photo of it.
Hattie Piggyfriend said " That piggy looks just like me! I wonder who she is? Is she one of the Squeakers?"
We took a photo of Hattie in the same pose and tried to copy the props.
We have taken better photos but you get the idea! "Life imitating art" says Slave ( whatever that means....!)
We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with lots of treats.
Father Pigmas has been in the night and left treats for the Piggyfriends.
"Was that really Father Pigmas?" asks Benedict. " Doesn't he look a lot like our Valentine? I know that we were not meant to peek but I couldn't help it. He came down the chimney and left me this lovely big carrot."
"I will be busy eating this all day long."
Peaches comes running over to the other piggies. " Wake up piggies! Father Pigmas has been and left us all of these wonderful veggies."
Heidi leads all the piggies out to survey the bountiful supply of veggies. "Heidi," asks Peaches," How does Father Pigmas get all these veggies down the chimney?"
" That is done by magic," replies Heidi, " Christmas magic! Now I am going to eat this carrot. Come and join me all of you Piggyfriends."
The Piggyfriends would like to wish all of our readers a very Happy Christmas.
"Help!" says Dara."What is all this stuff and where is Declan?"
The two piggies look bemused until Slave tells them all about Christmas.
"So, if we have been good piggies, we will all get a treat in the morning?" asks Dara. "We are always good," says Declan, " because we are Peruvians."
Slave tells all of the piggies that Father Pigmas will come in the night and leave gifts.
"Sounds good to me," says Dara. "I can't wait until morning."
Dear Readers, if you have ever attempted to do a photo shoot with a guinea pig, especially one dressed in a very cute Hallowe'en costume (which the guinea pig may not have --- strictly speaking --- agreed to wear) and a collection of props, you may have already learned what I found out today.
Sometimes things do not go according to plan.
Here we have a basic set for a photo shoot: the letters are all still affixed to the background (that "a" in Happy may be backwards, but who pays attention to details like that?) and we have a few basic props appropriate to the holiday in the foreground. No piggy in sight, but that comes next...
Charlotte. the piggy model, has arrived! Not looking too pleased, but you can't keep everyone happy, and now the "w" in Hallowe'en seems to have fallen off and put back on a bit hastily upside down...
Now we have lost a few letters from the sign and Charlotte's headgear has slipped down over her eyes...
It looks as if the Director has figured out how to turn on those little pumpkins and they are now flashing, but not quite properly synchronized...
Ah! I'm afraid this might be as good as it gets, Readers! We have lost a few more letters but both pumpkins are flashing at the same moment and Charlotte is in the middle, still wearing her costume and glaring at the camera. Shall we quit while we are ahead? Perhaps that is for the best!
Happy Hallowe'en to all piggies and piggy people out there, and we hope no one dressed you up against your will and made you pigticipate in a photo shoot!
Here you can see our two mops...er Peruvians...Declan and Dara with the pumpkin. The leaf on the top has to be pressed to make it light up so we used a phone to hold it down. Much less dangerous than a real flame with all those whiskers around.
Happy Hallowe'en to all of our readers.
Slave took our Peaches to see Pauline at Pooh Piglets Rescue as she needed an extra pair of hands to deal with a sebaceous cyst. She had seen two lovely Peruvians on the rescue's Facebook page the previous week and never expected to find that they were still there but.....
.....there they were! A family had been to see them at the weekend, picked them up and cuddled them and then went home with two other pigs. Slave can never pick up a pig at Pauline's and leave him behind.
They had been handed in at the rescue all tangled and matted and Pauline had shampooed them and given them good haircuts.
Slave had gone to the rescue with her son as her car was at the mechanics so he held one piggy and she had the other. Then they swapped pigs. He went back to his car to fetch the extra carrier that always accompanies Slave to the rescue " just in case ".....and in they went to come home.
She has named them Dara and Declan. In the above photo, Dara is at the front. He is alleged to be eight months old and has some white hair in his coat so it is easy to tell them apart.
In this photo, Declan is at the front. He is reputed to be two years old. They are not related but are the very best of friends. Slave has trimmed their fringes so that she can see their dear little faces and they can see out. They are lovely little guys who are obviously used to being handled and are the typical laid back Peruvians who are easy to pose for a photograph but, having dark faces, their eyes do not show up that well.
Please welcome these little fellows to Piggyfriends.
Hello, everyone! I'm the newest Prairie Pig and my name is Padraig, which is an Irish name (you say it something like "Porrig" unless you are Auntie Penny who speaks Irish and can somehow also sneak a "d" in there through the back door). Actually, it was Auntie Penny (even though she lives thousands of miles away!) who alerted Pig Mum that there was a guinea pig on the website of her local humane society shelter. And of course, Pig Mum loaded her carrier into the car right away and went out there to get me!
So far I really like it here. I have friends now, and I get to visit with the other six Prairie Pigs twice a day at cage cleaning time. Also, the food is pretty good! See? We get red pepper twice a day!!!
And Ernie loaned me his extra little wooden house so I have a cozy place to sleep.
Do you folks know about this stuff? It's called grass and it is the most delicious food I have ever eaten! It's my new favourite thing in the world!
That's my story so far. I am looking forward to meeting everyone out there in Blog Land, so write in soon to say hello and tell me about yourself!
Hello Readers, Peaches Piggyfriend here.
Our new friend, Slaney, at Piggyville had a photoshoot and she sent us some pigtures. We voted on which were the best and here they are.
The sun shows off her lovely red coat very well. Below you can see her other side, which is exactly the same.... just like me. She even has red eyes the same as mine.
Her mum was going to take her outside to have her pigtures taken but there was an evil hawk hovering over the garden so it was safer to stay indoors. The hawk was after the baby turkeys but they ran away. Can't be too careful out there!
"Hey, Ceilidh, is that our Pink Piggymobile?" asks Shannon.
"Yes, Shannon, it is!" replies Ceilidh. "And there is a copy of the Journal of the American Cavy Breeders' Association right next to it! Maybe Mum and Dad are going to a guinea pig show?"
"Oh my gosh, Ceilidh!" cries Shannon. " A piggy must have arrived in the Pink Piggymobile! We have a beautiful new red satin sister! What do you think we should name her? What about "Slaney", after the River Slaney that flows into the Irish Sea near Wexford? She looks like a lovely Irish lass!"
Dear Readers, please welcome Slaney to the piggy blog.
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There hasn't been much to write about lately but now we have some wonderful news. There have been three additiions to our herd and we would like to tell you about them.
First of all this is Heidi.
Slave went to Pooh Piglets Rescue and this lovely lady was waiting for a home. She had been left at the rescue and had been very unwell. The wonderful Pauline, who runs the rescue, saved her life but Heidi was not eating, her coat had fallen out and things were not looking good for her.
Pauline had several piggy mums, whose babes had been weaned, so she put two tiny girls with Heidi, who immediately perked up and started eating and caring for these babes as if they were her own. Her coat grew back and she needed an experienced home, where she could be monitored.
She is a Swiss breed piggy so Slave named her Heidi after the Swiss girl in a favourite childhood book.
She was sitting in a hutch and the babes were hiding behind her.
The babes are sisters although one was very much smaller than the other and didn't want to come out from behind her surrogate mum.
Slave likes alliterative names so the little girls are called Honeysuckle and Hattie.
Above you can see Honeysuckle, the bigger of the two and below is Hattie.
They have grown quite a lot since coming here and Hattie is now nearly as big as her sister. Honeysuckle was the bossy one at first and Hattie spent most of the time hiding behind big Heidi and sneaking out for veggies from the safety of her fluffy coat but now that Hattie has grown, Honeysuckle has decided that there is no point in trying to be the Alpha pig when the others don't care for the job and they are a happy trio.
Please welcome Heidi, Hattie and Honeysuckle to the Piggyfriend clan.
It is May Day Holiday and we always choose one of our girls to be our May Queen.
"You really want me to wear this?" asks Peaches. "Seriously?" "It is edible," says Slave. " You are allowed a munch if you like."
Finally!! Not the best photo that we have ever posted but we got there in the end. Thank you, Peaches.
Apparently it is very hard to get a good photographer around Easter Time. Our Mom did not take our photos until today, if you can believe it!
We are very happy to be celebrating with bunnies, because bunnies like to eat so many of the same foods as we do. (Okay, we realize these are bunnies on towels, tins, books and cards, but we are not picky!)
I, Scottie, was very good about posing, knowing that I would get a treat afterwards.
While I, Coke, was more intent on getting the book open so I could eat --- I mean, read it!
A very Happy Easter to All!!!
It's not as if any of the Prairie Pigs are usually competing to appear in a photo shoot, so this year when little Emily decided she would volunteer to be the official Easter Prairie Piggy, it was easy to talk Lovely Rita into donating the use of her famous Easter bonnet. Doesn't Emily look cute in it?
Slave's family always gets together to colour Easter eggs. This year they made them with piggy-approved herbal designs (cilantro --- yum!) and used onion skins to colour them. We thought these ones turned out particularly pretty.
We are the girls from Piggyville, North Carolina, and we are here to wish all of our friends a very Happy Easter.
I am Shannon ( on the left ) and my friend, Ceilidh, is on the right. She never shows up well in photos just like Fionn Piggyfriend as they are both black piggies with black eyes. They even have the same little patch under their mouths.
We think that our Slave is going to share out these chocolate eggs and we are going to have something yummy for posing for this pigture.
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE.
"Come with me Benedict," says Slave.
"Not this time sweetie," says Slave. " We are going to do something special and afterwards you can eat that carrot."
"We are going to wish a very Happy Easter to our readers so please keep still."
"I will eat the mini eggs," says Slave "and you can have some of that carrot for being a good boy. Thank you Benedict."
HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYONE AND EVERYPIG!
