Monday, August 6, 2018

A Piggy A - Z. G is for Guinea Pigs!

After that one wet day, the heatwave returned and it goes on and on although the weatherman has just said that we might be getting some rain in a few days time. We cannot go outside as it is so hot but we thought that it was about time we made a post and decided to move on to G in our alphabet.

What else could we possibly start with other than the most important G of all - GUINEA PIGS of course.

It being too hot to do anything that required exercise, we had a look through the Piggyfriend archives and found these photos, which were for a little friendly competition about who could make the longest line of piggies.

Our senior piggy Otto, on the right, remembers this photoshoot from his younger days. He says that Slave made a line of celery both to keep all the piggies in order and also to stop them from falling off the sofa whilst she took the photos.

Then she took the celery away and, very quickly, took this photo. Otto says that he was replaced by Fennel for this pigture.

This was the longest line of piggies that Slave was able to make as they filled up the sofa.

Otto remembers that were a lot of outtakes during this photoshoot. Here is one....


Not all of the piggies would stay in line.....


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The above pigture shows some of the Piggyfriends waiting to be lined up. As you can see, we come in many different shapes, sizes, hairstyles and colours.

Now we are waiting in earnest for that rain to come so that we can show you some photos of G for Grass.

Sunday, July 29, 2018

Rain!!

"What is that noise on the roof?" asks Niamh Piggyfriend.





" Hey, look guys! It is raining! Does this mean that our grass will grow again?"

" Yes," replies Slave," but it will take a few days before I am able to pick any for you."

The Piggyfriends are relieved that they will soon be able to enjoy their daily ration of grass and will put up with veggies in the meantime. They are also delighted that it is not so hot today.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Hard Times

The dreadful heatwave continues here at Piggyfriends. We cannot go outside to forage as there is nothing there to eat and even the humans have been advised to stay out of the sun between 11 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon. Not that our Slave needs any such advice.

She did come home with this box of pseudo grass yesterday. It looked quite like grass so we were willing to give it a try.

Unfortunately it was very coarse and the dandelions were not up to our normal juicy standard but, in the circumstances, we were willing to forgive our Slave, who had made the effort to find us something that was nearly grass.

Cosmo Piggyfriend thinks that this is more like a doormat than grass but he is giving it his best shot ."This is better than no grass at all", he says between mouthfuls, "but it takes a lot of chewing."

Carter, Aoife and Saoirse will have a go at anything that looks like grass and every Piggyfriend tried some although it was not quite so relished as the usual lush supply.

There has never been a day when no grass has been served at Piggyfriends, even when Slave has to brush off the snow to find it so we have been very disappointed in the weather that has ruined our favourite food.

We have all been moved into Slave's dining room, which is the coolest room in the house and we have lots of fans to keep away the worst of the heat. Some of us are in smaller pens than usual to fit us all in but who wants to run around when it is hot? We wish that it would rain!

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Grass, or what used to be grass...

We just wanted to share what our grass looks like... It's been rather warm outside, inside has been okay so far, and it hasn't rained for quite a time... Dull brownish 'grass' is all we see what looking out the window.




Wheekz,
Guinygirlz Raani and Cookie and boar Binky

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

A message from our newest Pigpenpal, Noodle.

Hello Piggyfriends,

My new Slave has taken some more photos and I thought that you would like to see them. First of all, here is another one of me. When I was taken to the shelter, my nails were about an inch long and my new Slave immediately trimmed them so I am able to run around properly and have fun.

Can you see my nice neat nails?

Here I am at home, being weighed.
I am going to get fat with all this good food.
Our Slave grows veggies in the garden and we all got to share the first of the carrot crop.

We all ate the leaves first and then we finished off the carrots.

It was all very yummy and we cannot wait for more carrots to be ready to pick.

Love and oinks from your PigPenPal, Noodle.

Saturday, July 7, 2018

Praying For Grass!!!

Hey Mum said Squirly! Did I hear you say that there are piggys that do
not have any grass to eat? Yes some piggys live where there are heat
waves and droughts. Their slaves can not collect grass for them. Well
Honeydew and I are going to pray for all of our Piggyfriends around the
world. May Mother Nature Bless them with grass.

Friday, July 6, 2018

Look what they've done to our grass!

This is a photo of a field where Slave often collects lovely fresh grass for us. It sometimes contains dandelions too.
This heatwave just goes on and on and we have had enough of it ( so has Slave ). She just managed to find a little bit of rather dried grass around the edge where there is a bit of shade from the horrible sun. It was not up to our usual standard but needs must.....


Saturday, June 30, 2018

We have a new PigPenPal.

We have just had an email from our one time Junior Slave, who has adopted another piggy to be a friend for Rin, Maki and Nico so we have a new PigPenPal.

She is called Noodle. She was bought as a present for a little girl, who dearly wanted a piggy but she proved to be allergic so Noodle was surrendered to the Humane Society where Junior Slave works.

Noodle
Noodle comes home.
Our new PigPenPal.
Inquisitive Piggy.

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

It is TOO hot!

We are having a heatwave here in SE England. It is far too hot to do anything. We cannot go out on the grass and Slave has fans all around us indoors but it is still too hot for our liking.

Magnus Piggyfriend thinks that it is far too hot to sit in the haybox so maybe it will be cooler to have a nap in this tube.

Slave is having difficulty cutting fresh grass for us. Her friend, Roly, is mowing all the grass in his fields for hay and what is left has all gone to seed. Plenty of stalks but no nice, green blades of grass.

Just as well that our supermarket has lots of lovely fresh veggies instead but Magnus is too hot to finish his carrot.

What is the weather like where you live, readers?

Friday, June 22, 2018

Friday video: Hungry piggies!

It's Friday again, so time for another little video. Does this look familiar to slaves out there?
Happy wheekend

Sunday, June 17, 2018

A Piggy A - Z. F is for Friend

We have not been able to take any pigtures for the blog until today as Slave has been out and about and she took her camera with her but today she is at work again so we have pigtures to share.

Us piggies are social animals and, much as we appreciate the love of a kind Slave, nothing beats the friendship of another piggy.

Someone with whom to share a pile of grass.





Fernando and Martin on the left.









And after eating, a post prandial nap with our best friend.





Here, on the right, are Otto and Niamh fast asleep.









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Friday, June 15, 2018

We Love Carrots!

Hey Honeydew do you think our slave can take a video of us eating
carrots? No way says Squirly. Our slave is not as smart as her smart
phone. Oh well maybe you can convince her to post a picture of us eating
carrots from the Piggyville garden. Ok says Squirly. Honeydew thinks to
herself...I am such a smart piggy. I have all the carrots for myself.
Squirly returns and says "What happened to the carrots"? I left the tops
for you they are the best part replies Honeydew.

Friday video: More veggies for dinner!

Slaves ran out of veggies (the horror!) so we got these carrot strips. What are your favorite veggies?

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

New Bedding for the Big Boys

Last week we showed you Ted's new bedding and explained why he is in a new house this week we will show you our new bedding.

As we are big boys we decided we would like DINOSAUR bedding!! How cool is this??


Wednesday, May 30, 2018

A New Bed for Ted

Regular readers may remember a few months ago a new addition joined the Piggypals a little ginger teddy guinea pig called Ted.

At first everything went well Ted was put in quarantine for 2 weeks and then after 2 weeks had passed and he was not ill he was allowed to join us big boys. Things were OK for a couple of weeks and then Ted decided he did not like Hugo in fact he really didn't like Hugo and some serious fighting broke out.

This meant that the humans had to seperate Ted us from us which also meant that Mummy had to make Ted some new bedding as he is only a baby she decided he would like Ladybirds you can see how his fleece looks below.

Ted now lives in a seperate cage next to us where he can see, smell and talk to us but not get at Hugo.

We do spend time in the same run in the garden as the grass provides a distraction for everyone but this is under strict human supervision and if it looks like problems may start Mummy or Daddy will remove either Ted or Hugo.

Me I get on with everypig!!


Friday, May 25, 2018

Yeah White Clover Flowers!!!!!

Honeydew and Squirly reporting from Piggyville. Our slave tried to trick
us into eating purple clover flowers. Honeydew would not even look at
the purple flowers. Hey Mom you can't fool us. We have sophisticated
tastes. You can see by the look on our faces and the white flowers in
our mouths that we love white clover flowers. Ah!! springtime in
Swannanoa North Carolina. Munch, Munch, Munch......

Guinea Pig Crop Circle

Us Piggies have been very busy now that the nice weather has finally arrived in the UK can you guess what we have been up to?


Saturday, May 12, 2018

Do you think......

...........that if I sit on my food bowl, Slave will think that it is empty and put more in it?





"Do not worry about my eyes," says Magnus Piggyfriend." I was born with small eyes but I can see very well and this does not prevent me getting around."

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Imitation is the sincerest form of ...

Love. Nugget here. My older brother, Eddie (on the left) hasn't been
feeling so well lately, and my mom has been taking him to the vet a lot.
The other day I wanted to show him support, so I rested with him, and,
well, I thought if I looked just like him, he would feel better. He is
an amazing brother and friend.

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Happy First Birthday to Piggyville Girls

Squirly and Honeydew celebrated their first birthday at Piggyville in
North Carolina by romping and chomping away in a clover patch. "Where
are all the clover flowers?" asked Squirly the silver agouti. Honeydew
replied, "Remember our slave did not sew the clover until October".
"This means we will not have any yummy flowers until late May." Oh well
at least we have plenty of clover, lots of love and a forever home.

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

May Day

Slave went out into the garden to pick some May flowers so that one of the Piggyfriend girls could be May Queen for the day. This is what she found.





We have a very long hedge in our garden, which contains many hawthorns but, because of the very long winter and miserable cold spring, there was not a single blossom to be found. Eeek!

"Sorry girls, " said Slave. " No May Queen this year but maybe you might like a substitute? I have lots of dandelion flowers."

" I would not mind being Dandelion Queen instead," says Mimi.

" I can eat these but I am not sure that May is edible. These are yummy!"

Slave tells us that humans can eat the leaves of hawthorn. When she was little, they were called bread and cheese trees. We much prefer dandelions. More please. We all want to be Dandelion Queens and Kings.


Saturday, April 28, 2018

Today is Otto's 7 1/2th. birthday

After we get to be 5 years old, henceforth our Slave celebrates our "Half Birthdays" as well as our real ones. I was born on October 28th. 2010 so today is my 7 1/2th. birthday.

Here is a pigture of me enjoying my birthday breakfast with my best friend, Niamh. I am too old for toys like chubes but I do love my grass and my friend.
That is me on the left.

"Happy Half Birthday Otto" say the Piggyfriends. "Happy Half Birthday sweetie" says Slave.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Happy First Birthday to our Pigpenpals

Our Pigpenpals, Maki and Niko, in Connecticut have just celebrated their first brithday.
Here they are, all in a heap with their mama, Rin. Can you tell where one pig ends and the other begins? No, we cannot either! Rin is nearly 3lbs. in weight. She could have been a LAPS piggy with a few more carrots.

Anyone remember the LAPS? Large and Ample Pig Society. Our late Daisy was one time President.

Happy Birthday little ones with many more to come.

Friday, April 20, 2018

Nugget is 3!

Hello, I am Nugget and I am 3 today, April 20. I have never been 3
before, so it will be a new adventure for me. I live with my older
brother, Eddie, who is a wonderful brother, and cucumber is one of my
favorite foods. In fact, my mom had to give me a cucumber piece as my
modeling fee. I hope you enjoy my pigture.

Friday, April 13, 2018

Where are you Martin?

"Where are you Martin?" asks Fernando. " I cannot see you!"
" I cannot find you Fernando!" says Martin. " Why are you hiding from me?"

"There you are!" say both Piggyfriends to each other. " Someone had knocked over our tunnel and I could not see you behind it." says Martin. " Slave has stood it up again and given us this lovely grass. Let's eat." replies Fernando. " When we were piglets we used to sit beside each other in our tunnel to eat. It must have shrunk." says Martin.


Monday, April 2, 2018

Alternative Easter 'egg' hunt

We had an alternative Easter egg hunt, we hunted for Parsley, and also for little tomatoes, slices of carrot and pieces of endive (but not in this video)

Did you get to hunt veggies?
Wheeks,
The guinygirlz and boar Binky

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Happy Easter Everyone

Look what the Easter Bunny has brought.






"I am not sure that I want to eat those" says Carter Piggyfriend. " Shall I give them to our Slave? She loves chocolate."





" I think that I would prefer that lettuce."





" On behalf of the Piggyfriends and our Slave, Penny, I would like to wish you all a very Happy Easter. I hope that your Slaves get lots of Easter Eggs."

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Happy St.Patrick's Day.

On behalf of all the Piggyfriends, Agent Diva 1 aka Lulu wishes everyone a happy St. Patrick's Day.
I do not mind wearing Slave's shamrock necklace but I do not think that I want to try the earrings. I am sorry that I have left some bits of my coat on your jumper but it is a small price to pay for me posing so nicely. You did not think that I would do that did you Slave? You thought that I would rush off and hide under the table!

Sunday, March 11, 2018

We also lit a candle

We also lit a candle for the Peter Gurney memorial!
What is that smell? Cookie says while sniffing the air

Raani also comes to have a look and investigate.
Oh it's a candle to remember our late friends
Like Bérke, Peaches and Tijger

Binky! Come have a look, you never seen this either
because you were the last to join us

Saturday, March 10, 2018

Candle Post

Hello This is the first time I have tried to post to the blog. I hope
this works out. Cheers, Ann of Piggyville




March 9th 2018: The Peter Gurney Light That Went Around the World

Honeydew and Squirly of Piggyville in Swannanoa, North Carolina USA lit
a candle in memory of their Hero Peter Gurney. Our slave reads to us at
bedtime. Peter Gurney's book "The Last of Their Kind" is our favourite
bedtime story. His guinea pigs actually wrote the book. We never get
tired of hearing Sarah, Iggy, Ruby, Dusty, Dennis and Free Range Jake
give their views of what life was like living with Peter. We are sure
that many slaves would enjoy a book written by Peter's piggys too.