Wishing Everyone a Happy Easter !

Coke here! I am so excited about Easter, and I was very good when my mom wanted to take this photo of me. Two new bunny friends agreed to join me, and a book also appeared. My mom says reading is very important.

I wonder if there are any goodies in the bag? Do you think I should look?

Happy Easter to all!

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.

Two New Piggyfriends.

 Hello Readers. Let me introduce myself. My name is Rafael.

I came to live here at Piggyfriends on Valentine's Day along with my brother. Slave said that one of us just had to be called Valentine so that is my brother's name now.

Here we are together.

We are agoutis. I am a silver agouti and my brother, on the left, is a cream. If we are picked up, we are a different colour underneath so I am white and my brother is cream of course. Slave says that she loves agoutis so we are happy that she went to Pooh Piglets Piggy Rescue and brought us home.

We were very nervous when we first arrived here and Slave says that the next pigtures might make our readers laugh. We both tried to hide underneath each other and it didn't really work.

Now that we have been here for all of a fortnight, we are much braver and come running out for the plentiful veggies that are provided. We had never eaten grass before and when our Slave gave us a pile of it, we did not know what it was and we sat on it. Now we know better and clear up every blade! 

Slave says that lots of people can see these pigtures so that makes us very happy although we do not understand how that works. We are only seven months old and there is a lot to learn.

Happy Valentine's Day to all of our friends

 

 

 

Oscar Piggyfriend wishes a Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovely sows of his acquaintance. The lovely Piggyville Girls, the girls here at Piggyfriends, Lovely Rita of the Prairie Piggies and any other beautiful sows who happen to be reading this message not forgetting the crowd of gorgeous girlies at Surrey Squeakers.

 

 

 

 

Bella Piggyfriend wants to send Valentine Greetings to all those lovely boars out there, especially her friends from the Prairie Piggies and Scottie and his friends. Bella says that she will have news of two new handsome boars very soon. Watch this space.

OUR NEW FURNITURE

Hello all from Fitz, Coke, and Scottie!

We would like to show you some wonderful presents we received from friends for Christmas.

In the first photo, I, Fitz, am enjoying a very plush sofa decorated with reindeer. Two pads came with it, so if I want it even more plush, I can ask my mom to add a pad.

I, Coke, am in the second (but just as important) photo. My mom calls this our muffler, as it is open at both ends and is very warm. It also has reindeer on it. Oh, you might notice lots of shredded newspaper around. That is some of our bedding, but who needs bedding when they have a cozy muffler?

Last but not least it is I, Scottie, also enjoying the sofa. It is roomy, as I think you can see! This was the first time I sat in it, so you might be able to tell I am testing it out.

We all immediately explored our new furniture, and we use it each day. Yes, sometimes we even compete a bit for it.

It came just in time, because winter is definitely here!

Happy New Year 2023

 

All of the Piggyfriends want to wish their friends a very happy New Year 2023

We do not have fireworks as Slave doesn't like them ( and we would not like the noise either) but Bella has a few stars around her. Unfortunately the photoshoot had to be cut short as she decided that they might be edible.

Lots of love to you all from the Piggyfriends. xxx

Pavarotti at the Airport

Although Pavarotti and the Prairie Piggies are marooned at the airport, he managed to send us a Christmas photo on his phone. This is his friend, Lovely Rita. He apologises for the quality of the pigture but thought you would like to see it anyway. They are about to travel back home and better pigtures will be forthcoming in the future.

The Prairie Piggies say Happy Christmas to you all and hope that everyone and everypig is safe from the terrible snow and cold.

A message from the Prairie Piggies

 "Hey guys," says Peaches Piggyfriend," I have a message from the Prairie Piggies."

"Pavarotti says that they are all stuck at the airport due to the dreadful weather. The Pig Air pilot has told them that it is not safe to take off as the runway is covered in snow and they will not be able to make it to our party."

" That is so disappointing but maybe we can invite them all to a New Year Party instead."

Merry Christmas from the Piggyville Girls

 

"Hey Ceilidh! Wake up!" says Shannon. " Mother Christmas has brought us stockings full of gifts!" 

"What are stockings?" asks Ceilidh. " They are those fuzzy things that Mum wears around the house," replies Shannon. " She even has warm stockings that she puts on her feet when she goes to bed. But these are special stockings full of gifts for good guinea pigs."

"Ooh! Look at all the goodies that Mother Christmas gave us." exclaims Shannon.  "We must have been very good piggies this year. We are going to share some of our goodies with all the piggies and the people who love them, who have travelled far from foreign lands to find peace and safety here is Swannanoa, North Carolina."

Merry Christmas everyone! Dear readers please note that we did not eat the Christmas Pudding! It is only there as a decoration. Our Humans are going to eat it after their dinner.

Happy Holidays!

Scottie, Fitz, and Coke here!

We are very excited to be invited to a Christmas party and are busy preparing for our trip. I, Scottie, wanted to bring my snowman mug along with me, hoping there will be, um, libations, and I also packed some food in my Santa lunchbox. I mean, I packed food for all of us in our lunchbox. (You will see a pigture of Coke with it, too.)

Fitz said he wasn't going anywhere unless he could take Santa with him. He promises he has been a good boy this year, and he wants to make sure Santa knows where he is when presents are being delivered.

Coke said he's a bit behind in sending his cards out, so he's bringing some with him, and he hopes everyone will notice the lovely guinea pig on the towel we are using to keep our feet warm.

We hope everyone and everypig will have a wonderful holiday season!

Christmas Party!

 Hello Readers. Oscar Piggyfriend here. I am trying to organise a Christmas Party for our friends.

"Bella? Do you think that I have ordered enough food for our guests?"

" I am not sure that there can ever be enough food," replies Bella, "especially as I saw you eating the last corn cob earlier."

"Not to worry," says Oscar (eyeing that nice, juicy red pepper in the box ) "Slave's son is shopping this evening and he will bring more when he comes on Christmas Eve tomorrow."

"Slave has cut some lovely fresh grass and we can always send her out for more."

Oscar has sent invitations to Fitz, Scottie and Coke and they have replied but he has not been able to contact the Prairie Piggies. Pavarotti has bought a special costume for Christmas and the Piggyfriends are longing to see it. Their Slave has had problems with her computer for a long time so, maybe, they cannot send us a message.

Slave was watching the news and she says that there is terrible weather in the US and Canada so it may be that Pig Air will not be able to take off. 

We are all keeping our paws crossed that they are able to come but, if not, we will organise a New Year Party too.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Piggyville Girls.

 We do not celebrate Thanksgiving in England so the Piggyfriends have asked our US friends to help us out. This post comes from the Piggyville Girls in North Carolina.

" Oh no Ceilidh!" squeaks Shannon. "Mom has that silver thing that flashes lights in our eyes. She has also bribed us with lettuce so she must be up to something."

"It is a camera Shannon," replies Ceilidh, " and no matter how many pictures she takes of me, I will always look like a black blob but who cares, let us enjoy the lettuce."

"Wow! Mom has given us a pecan pie! What is the special occasion?" asks Shannon.

"It is because on Thanksgiving our humans celebrate all the good things in their lives and we are the best things that ever happened to them." replies Ceilidh. " However, I think that I will stick to lettuce and let Mom and Dad have the pie."

We both want to wish all the piggies and humans a Happy Thanksgiving. We all have so much for which to be grateful.

Happy Thanksgiving

Coke here, wanting to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.

At the beginning of my photo shoot, my mom set out some small pieces of carrot and squash to make the photo look more festive, and, yes, to keep me occupied. Those photos didn't come out as well as she had hoped, so she tried again, without the food.

Can you believe it? But I decided to pose for her politely (having already eaten by then), and she decided the second set of pigtures was better.

I hope you will like this pigture. It was fun to sit with the pumpkin "sculpture," even though it was inedible. (It was actually so obviously inedible that I didn't even try to smell it. LOL.)

There is a lot of orange, which is now making me hungry, so I am dreaming of carrots, raw sweet potato slices, pumpkin pie ... Oh, my mom says I can't eat pumpkin pie. Hey, two out of three isn't bad.

Don't worry, I promise to share my holiday goodies with Scottie and Fitz!