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!
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.
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!
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.
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...
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.
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!
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