Bella here. On behalf of the herd of Piggyfriends, I would like to wish all of our readers a very Happy Christmas with stockings full of carrots, cucumbers, chicory, lettuce and whatever you like best.
Personally I like grass best of all and our Slave's son has come to stay and will be fulfilling that need.
Happy Holidays everyone and everypig. xxxx
Slave says Nollaig Shona, which she assures me means Happy Christmas but I only speak Pig.
"Look at these toy piggies!" says Cobweb. " They look very much like my best friend, Tamworth."
"Look at these toy piggies!" says Tamworth. " They look very much like me."
"Oh that is you this time," says Cobweb. " Let us ask the staff to hang the toys on the tree so that I don't get confused."
" That is better," says Cobweb, " now they won't be given our carrots by mistake."
The Piggyfriends are helping their Slave sort out the Christmas decorations. Fionn is being a good boy and is......
On the other hand, some pigs are being less than helpful...
.......aren't you Peaches? That celery is for you to eat. Not the decorations please!
"I don't mind wearing this hat", says Peaches," especially when I can have a piece of pepper."
Would you like to see an outtake? Here is Peaches behaving badly......
We hope that you are helping your Slaves get ready for Christmas.
The Piggyville Girls received an early Christmas visitor. Her name is Choco.
She is a You Tube and TV star from Japan. She stars in the Japanese Anime series "Pui Pui Molcar", which translates to Pui Pui CavyCar. She and her many cavy friends bring cheer to children, adults and guinea pigs around the world.
Shannon aka the "blonde bombshell and Ceilidh aka the "black blob" are starstruck. They do not know what to say to Choco.
I am sure that, after watching a few of her videos, they will realise that she speaks Guinea Pig, the universal language of love.
Happy Holidays from Piggyville in Swannanoa, North Carolina!!
Cheers from Shannon, Ceilidh and Choco.
Slave gave her son a 3D printer for Christmas last year and for her recent birthday, he made her this and painted him.
A guinea pig Samurai warrior. He said that there are other piggy patterns to make different models like a king, an army and a bard so more may be coming our way. The guy that uploads them calls himself Cavy Forge so if anyone has access to a 3D printer, piggies can be yours.
It has taken us a while to bring you up to date with our other new Piggyfriends. We need Slave's help to extract the camera card as it is too small and fiddly for our paws but she has been spending far too much time painting the outside of our house. Doesn't she realise that piggy announcements are far more important than painting?
Anyway....here they are...
When Slave and her son were at Pooh Piglets rescue, they were putting Cobweb and Tamworth into their carrier to come home when Pauline said that she had two more boars needing a home. Slave always has an extra carrier in the car "just in case" and it seldom comes home empty.
Pauline opened the hutch and they could see one piggy that Slave said looked just like our Caoimhe so out he came. He is the one on the right in the pigture. Then Pauline lifted out his brother, who is a Sheltie.
As we said in our previous post, once Slave has picked up a piggy, they never go back into the hutch. These little boys are older than our other newbies but are not quite full grown.
After lots of cuddles and a free haircut for the Sheltie, they all came home.
This little fellow is the Sheltie and he has a nice brown stripe down the middle of his nose. Neither of them had names so Slave has called this one Benedict.
And here is the Caoimhe lookalike, whom she has named Dominic.
Here they are together. Slave thinks that our US readers will have another name for the Sheltie breed but she cannot remember what it is. Too much painting we say! He is like a Peruvian but his long hair grows back from his face instead of having a fringe.
While we were typing this ( and it takes a long time with everypig trying to "help" ) she thought that the Shelties might be called Silkies in the US. Is that right? Maybe a reader will correct us.
As Pauline had several families waiting outside the piggy shed, she never got to hear their back story but they are safe now here at Piggyfriends and are eating everything in sight except for cucumber, which they ignore! More for the rest of the herd! Slave has lots of them growing in her greenhouse. Yum yum!
There are always a lot of wonderful piggies needing homes at Pooh Piglets Rescue in Haywards Heath, which is about a 45 minute drive from Piggyfriends.
Slave and her son went to see them last week and came home with these two little boars.
They are not related but Pauline, the lovely lady who runs this rescue, paired them up and when Slave and her son arrived, they were the first two that Pauline lifted out of their hutch and gave out one pig to each of them.
Having picked up a piggy, it is impossible to put him back ( according to Slave ) so these little guys came home with her.
Slave always takes a long time to choose names for us but she finally settled on Tamworth for the orange fellow on the left. Here he is again.
Slave told us that there is a breed of orange coloured farm pig called Tamworths. They are only babes but Tamworth is a couple of months older than......
.......Cobweb, the little white babe above. They are both what Slave calls "nearly Abbies" in that they have a few rosettes in their coats but not as many as a true Abby.
They are still a little nervous coming to a strange new home but Cobweb behaved better for our little photoshoot than Tamworth. See the outtake below......
If you would like to see two more additions to the Piggyfriend herd, watch this space!
And don't forget. If you live in the SE of England and have room for more piggies, give Pooh Piglets a call. You can read about the rescue on their Facebook page where you will find the phone number.
Hello Readers.
It is May Day today and I was supposed to be the Piggyfriends May Queen. Spring has been very late this year in England and Slave could not find any may flowers to make me a crown.
There are some tight buds on the may in our hedge but it will need a lot of sun to make them open. So she looked around the garden for some other flowers. There are many flowers out there like daffodils, hyacinths and bluebells but Slave told me that most flowers from bulbs are toxic so she picked these forget me nots for me just in case I decided to take a nibble.
Not quite what I was expecting but at least I had my photo taken. Perhaps I should say " Happy Forget Me Not Day" instead.
Hello Readers. Caoimhe Piggyfriend here. I am not going to eat that chocolate egg so Slave has given me this nice grass. I am not sure whether that is to keep me from running off or because I am a good girl and am sitting still for the photo.
We all want to wish everyone a Happy Easter.
Slave does not like bunnies in the garden as they sneak in and eat our veggies but these toy ones seem quite safe to me. They are not even stealing my grass.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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Hello Readers. Bella Piggyfriend here.
