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!

Happy Easter from the Piggyfriends.

 

"Why am I out of my pen again?" asks Heidi Piggyfriend. " My friends are on the other side of this wire."

"It is time to take some more pigtures." replies Slave.

"Me again?" asks Heidi." There are lots of other piggies from whom to choose."

"Yes." says Slave. " That is because you are such a good piggy and will not destroy the scenery like some piggies we know. Turn around and we will wish our readers a Happy Easter."

 

Heidi turns around and can see that the little chocolate eggs make up her initial. ( Yes, readers, I know that is difficult to tell one end of Heidi from the other. I just watch her to see which end the veggies go in.)

"Now for a close up please Heidi," says Slave, " then you can have some lettuce."

Heidi loves lettuce especially when she doesn't have to share it with her greedy little friends, Hattie and Honeysuckle.

"Yum, yum, munch, munch"

Happy Easter everyone from all of us at Piggyfriends. xxx
 

Padraig Sends Out St.Patrick's Day Greetings!

 Yes, it's me --- Padraig from the Prairie Pigs!  I was selected for this particular assignment because I have a fine Irish name and lots of red hair (like many Irish humans, including our Auntie Penny).

It is decidedly not green here in Saskatchewan at the moment (though we know the green is still down there under the snow), but there is lots of green inside.  Have you ever noticed how many of a guinea pig's favourite things in the world are green?  Parsley, cilantro, dandelion greens, romaine, kale, carrot tops --- I could go on and on.  (Hmmmm... I feel even more Irish, just thinking about all of that delicious crunchy greenery!)

The Prairie Pigs will be celebrating St. Paddy's Day with all of our favourite green things, and we suggest you do the same (even if it means slipping a bit of food colouring into your Guinness, just for today)!  Spring is just around the corner!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to our Readers.

 

The Piggyfriends would like to wish all of our readers a very happy St. Patrick's Day.

Peaches is a bit confused about wearing Slave's shamrock necklace.

Usually one of the more sensible Piggyfriends gets to do this but Slave said that not enough of our Abyssinians get to be on the blog. So, rather than have one of our good piggies. like Heidi, wear the necklace, Peaches got the job. 

 

This could have been a mistake on her part but, after several blurry outtakes of Peaches making a run for it, Slave managed to get this one. Not the best pigture ever but it is the thought that counts.

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day Everyone. 

The Prairie Pigs Light a Candle on Peter Gurney's Birthday

This year the Prairie Pig guarding our candle is Arthur Pendragon.  We don't know if you can see it clearly, but our candle holder this time is a sleeping cat.  We chose this particular one because our most recent loss here was our cat friend Hugo, who was a calm and gentle presence in our lives for many years.  

We are looking forward to seeing pigtures of all of the other piggies from our guinea pig community around the world, standing by their candles and taking a moment to remember.  Of course we never met Peter Gurney, but Pig Mum often looks up treatments and remedies for us in his books, and we are very grateful for his vast wealth of knowledge about piggies and willingness to share that wisdom for the good of guinea pigs everywhere!

Candle Lighting Day 2025 at Piggyfriends.

On March 9th. every year, the guinea pig community lights candles at 8pm. in our own time zones. This day was chosen as it was the birthday of Peter Gurney, who wrote many books about piggies, and we remember him, our pets and our humans who have passed away.

This year we chose one of our girls to be in charge of candle lighting. Here is Heidi, who is safe with a candle as she has very short whiskers.

We also picked one of our boys to light a candle and here is Benedict.

Our friends, the Piggyville Girls from Swannanoa, North Carolina, USA also lit a candle and they sent us this photo. From left to right they are Slaney, Shannon and Ceilidh.

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We Love Our Bowl !!!

Sephora:  There!  I wrote four words.  My work here is done!

Capy:  No, we have to make a post, too.

Sephora: What is a post?

Capy:  I think it is like a story.

Sephora:  I worked hard on those words.

Capy:  Mom says it needs context.  Don't ask.

Sephora.  Okay.

Hi all!  This is our second photo here, and we are honored.  We hope you can see us better, too.  I, Sephora, am on the left and I, Capy, am beside her.

It might not look like we are doing much, but we are fascinated by this bowl which is made of Timothy hay.  Our mom had just put it into our house and within fifteen seconds, we were beside it.  It is so good that we will chew it down to a very small piece which ends up being so tiny that our mom can't put pellets in it anymore because they would just slide off.  (Laughter)

That way she has to buy us another one!

It makes lots of popping noises as we chew on it, and we like to imagine they are music.

We hope you have lots of fun things to chew on and to play with, too!

Happy Valentine's Day to all of our Readers!

Slave has been telling us all about Valentine's Day and how our Piggyfriend, whose name actually is Valentine, was our representative last year.

My name is Cobweb and I drew the short hay to be this year's victim for a photo. 

Slave says that I was a good boy and I had some treats afterwards which I shared with my best friend Tamworth. I wasn't too sure about having one of Slave's Valentine hearts sitting on my back but she does like to take silly photos, which are not very dignified but it happens to us all. Anything for a lettuce leaf!

Slave asks me to remind everyone that March 9th. is Candle Lighting Day when we remember all of our friends at the Rainbow Bridge so you have plenty of time to find a candle, take a photo and mind you don't singe your whiskers with the match.

                       HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY FROM US ALL.

We Came out of Hiding for a Photo!

Sephora and Capy here!  Our mom adopted us a couple of months ago but up until now, we have been pretty good about hiding whenever she wanted to take a photo.  We made sure she didn't see us at all for the first few days we were with her.  Piggies cannot be too mysterious!

 

 

After Scottie passed away (sadly we never knew him), our mom wasn't sure she would ever adopt any more guinea pigs.  That did not last long, though, and she soon began a search which happily ended with us!  We are two sisters, about a year old, who were left at a vet's office.  A kind person there took us home, knowing she couldn't keep us, but she wanted to give us a chance.  She took excellent care of us while we waited for our forever home!

We came complete with all sorts of good hay and other food, and with our names!  In the photo, I, Sephora (I'm the one who looks like I'm wearing make-up) am on the left and I, Capy (I look like a capybara) am on the right.  You can also see our green sofa and our colorful rolled cozy.

Capy: Sephora thinks the green sofa is hers, and doesn't think I should be allowed to sit on it.  She thinks the bowls are hers, too!

Sephora: A girl has to eat!  Besides, the green sofa is, indeed, mine...

We like to play with paper bags and one of our favourite veggies is romaine.  Cucumber is high on our list too!  We still run from mom (unless food is involved, in which case we crowd around her hand), but when she picks us up and gently rubs our ears, we highly approve!

Thanks for letting us introduce ourselves!  Maybe we will agree to another photo soon...

 

Slave's Christmas presents.

Hello Readers,

The Piggyfriends' Slave received these lovely little model piggies for Christmas. Her son made them on his 3D printer and then he painted them.

Here is the group of fantasy piggies.....

.....and here they are individually.

                                                            A tiny piggy king.

                                                 

                                                         His tiny piggy wizard.

Finally, here is his little piggy jester. We think there should be a tiny piggy queen too but there wasn't a pattern to make one. Maybe next Christmas.

Holiday Greetings from the Prairie Pigs

Lovely Rita is here to convey our warmest holiday greetings to everyone and everypig out there!  We hope your weather was warmer than ours and that you have much less snow than we do.  (It's all very well to be "dreaming of a White Christmas", but a bit of picturesque hoar frost on the tips of branches would do just fine; no one needs three feet of snow covering all that tasty grass!)

It has been a good year for the Prairie Pigs; there are eight of us at the moment, the most Prairie Pigs there  have ever been.  Pig Mum's veggie garden did very well this year and we had many new and tasty things to eat all summer; we will be munching on carrots from that garden well into 2025.  

You have already heard about Padraig, who joined us in October, but early in the New Year, you will also get to meet an even newer Prairie Pig whose name is Serafina, a little orphan girl piggy who came to us from the local Humane Society shelter at only a few weeks old and weighing less than 100 grams.  She is growing fast and we are all helping to teach her how to be a guinea pig.

This is the first pigture Pig Mum took of Serafina, just after Serafina realized there was a guinea pig in the cage next door to hers --- she is trying to see over the divider into Padraig's cage, but she is not quite tall enough to get a really good look yet...

Stay tuned to hear her whole story!