An Agent Zeppelin Mystery

Agent Zeppelin is always improving his craft. He enjoys outsmarting the humans (huh.. like it's hard) and his cagemates by confusing them. Is he facing the food bowl or the hay rack? Which station should be guarded from the jaws of this ambitious LAPS pig?

See if you can find out. Get guessing!

Food bowl or hay ball?

Cardboard box or camera?

Your guinea pigs age in human years

I stumbled upon this nice article on guinea pig today:

http://www.guineapigtoday.com/2012/03/12/calculate-your-guinea-pigs-age-in-human-years/

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Top of the morning readers!

 

The Piggyfriends want to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day and I have been chosen as their representative.

 

Slave says that every pig here can be a secret agent. How exciting is that! Beats living in a cardboard box anyday.

 

She gave me an Irish name when I came here so I have chosen to be called Agent Shamrock. I live with my best friend Domino, who has shared my life through the hungry cardboard box years and the outdoor living and is now safely indoors with me here at Piggyfriends, where veggies are plentiful and there are pens of beautiful sows nearby.

 

We spent time recovering at our Rodentologists before moving here and our favourite food there was carrot but Slave forages for yummy leaves for us and we currently are enamoured of dandelion leaves.

 

Slave says that unless, like her, you are into Irish mythology or garden design, you are unlikely to guess my real name. If you read the GPDD, you might have seen me and my friend collecting trash aboard the Black Pearl in the current virtual story. The only clue that I can suggest is to think of an Irish name beginning with  D and don't worry about the spelling.

 

Have a great day. Glasses of carrot wine all round. Slonshal.

Adopt Rescued GPs Month

Agents Pirate and Magician want to show their support for Adopt Rescued Guinea Pigs month, as well as their favorite rescue organization.

The slogan they have come up with is:

Save some guineas, adopt rescued piggies!

We had a bath

We shouldn't have said that we'd never had a bath..

Miss Bo

Agent Chanel

Sjeuf

For those of you who are still wondering how J tells Coco and Sjeuf apart, here are some hints:

• Coco is actually white, with only two lilac spots around her eyes 
• Sjeuf is lilac all over 
• Coco is a coronet. This means that she has a crest on her head and long hair everywhere else. Or as she likes to say; I wear a crown, since I am a queen ;-) 
• Sjeuf is a sheltie, no crests
• And most of all, Coco is a girl and Sjeuf is a boy!! When in doubt (as if..) check underneath ;-)

Hat poll

Thank you to all our wonderful Agents who joined in with the hat competition now its time to chose who gets to be Agents of the Month for March.

Voting is open until the 10th March so get voting now!!

The Glynneath Guinea Pig Rescue

The Glynneath Guinea Pig Rescue

The rescue was set up in '03. Started because I felt guilty sitting on my backside watching animal rescue programmes feeling sorry for the animals and when I had the knowledge and experience to do something about it! So I got off the sofa and started organising. Had a shed built, constructed cages and runs, read and learnt as much as possible and let local rescues and vets know about me. The first guinea pigs arrived very soon and since then the rescue has grown every year. I now rescue over 150 guinea pigs a year, this year could be my busiest as I have already taken in 45 in the first 6 weeks of the year, with many on the waiting list for space.



Uncle JohnnyPig


JohnnyPig has poor dental health and requires trimming every month so is a lifelong resident at the rescue. He has earned his place at the rescue by becoming the resident Uncle Pig to all the baby boys that have to leave their mothers at 3 weeks old so no accidental pregnancies occur. He has a kind and gentle nature, is very sweet with the boys and teaches them guinea pig manners. Despite being the heaviest pig in the rescue at over 1.5kg he plays with the babies and popcorns as much as they do.

Vid of Johnny with his latest assignment


1000th pig and the Piggy Bank

In response to the need for more help for piggies across the country than a single rescue or individual can provide I founded the Piggy Bank, a collective of volunteers for guinea pig rescue support, made up mostly of members of The Guinea Pig Forum. There is a central database of all contact details of the members so that when a rescue situation occurs, we have a response team in any area that can be called upon. For the larger scale rescues we work as a network to locate rescue space and transport the pigs to the rescues. The Piggy Bank is still in it's infancy but has helped with small and large cale rescues already, very successfully.

Piggy Bank

Since the first rescue pig, Mr Binkie, arrived on 6th July 2003 The Glynneath Guinea Pig Rescue has now welcomed it's 1000th piggy. He arrived on 18th February 2012, one of the '285 rescue' - Thanks to the Piggy Bank for their part in this rescue, finding rescue space and transport for 120 boars.

https://www.facebook.com/piggybank.gpr



1000th Piggy



Thank you Suzy for this informative update about the rescue, we would like to raise our paws and clap for the wonderful job you are doing.