Vote for the Critter connection (CT) shelter(s)

http://guineapigconnection.typepad.com/pig_notes/2014/01/new-year-same-fight-new-focus.html

http://www.ctguineapigrescue.org/

Above are the CT Guinea Pig Rescue's new year mission statement followed by a link to their website. I would strongly encourage any so inclined to at least read Whitney Potsus' mission statement, and better yet visit the main website as well. I don't think I can improve upon Whitney's mission statement in my own words.

I would like to highly recommend once again the CT Guinea Pig Rescue in Durham, CT, a non-profit group dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of abandoned and neglected guinea pigs. Both Joanne and I have adopted many piggies from Cindy in years past. Since its founding in 2004 by Cindy Kuester, they have placed more than 1000 guinea pigs in good homes, not to mention provided the best of veterinary care for all the piggies in need who have come into the rescue. Some special needs and senior pigs stay on for their entire lives as sanctuary piggies.

I sincerely hope that folks would consider giving the CT Guinea Pig Rescue your vote. They have survived through a roof collapse, tough economic times, and their president's health issues. As Whitney details in her new year mission statement, because of Cindy's health issues this past year, they have reorganized, with a renewed dedication to their mission. They are smaller than they were at the beginning, but they are truly passionate about helping piggies in need despite discouragement at times.

I sent the text of this nomination to Whitney to review before I submitted it. Here are some of her words: "We are grateful for whatever help we can get. Financially, things just aren't getting better." Would you consider helping this rescue with your vote?

Sincerely,

Ann & Purdy Piggy in CT, USA

Happy Valentine's Day everyone

On behalf of the all Piggyfriends, our Agent in Training, Tyrion, would like to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day. He's a little Peruvian and has just had his first haircut so that he can look out for lovely sows.

 

We are sending our post a day early as we are expecting another huge storm tomorrow, which will probably knock out our power yet again.

 

We hope that everyone gets lots of flowers, cards and chocs ( Slave says particularly chocs ). We'd rather have a chicory leaf.

Friday Video: If it Fits, I Sits

There ought to be a guinea pig version of this video ;-)



Have a nice Wheekend!

An Agent Zeppelin Mystery Underneath the Hay ball

Hurray, we've got another agent Zeppelin mystery from our friends the Gekke Flappies! So, which way is he facing?

Get guessing..

Team Cheer!

Agents Peanut and Schilling here - we are cheering on our favorite football team, the Denver Broncos, in tomorrow's Super Bowl!  We also have our new sidekick Astrid, she still needs a secret agent name but The Piggy Slaves have been so busy just trying to contain all of her youthful excitement and get to know her that they haven't picked one yet.  

Friday Video: SPCA of Wake County Lip Dub Video

You know what is more fun than a lip dub video? A pet shelter lip dub video!

Have a nice Wheekend!

Calendar Piggies of January: Puff and Hershey

Baby Puff

Puff came at a very difficult time. Hershey was dying of misdiagnosed E cuniculi, and my husband, Gary, knew I'd be needing another piggie to bring me cheer. So, at work, he shopped around by phone all day until he found just the right piggie. I was coming out of a doctor's appointment in Sacramento, and the pet shop was on the way home. It was love at first sight, and you can see why when you look at her pigture!  

Hershey

Three days later, Hershey passed over the Bridge, and there was this cute little soul in an adjacent cage to ease my pain with her cute antics and sweet face. A few days later, my sister, Annie, a prize-winning photographer, dropped by with a camera for Puff's first photo shoot. It was then that we discovered she is (Puff, not Annie) a jumper--not a good candidate as a lap piggie, as she'll deliberately hurl herself off of every surface, not for fear, but just to find out what's down there. I even have to block her cage door when it's open during feeding time! You'd think she'd outgrow it.

 Oh well, my son does sky diving, and I guess this is her version of it. Anyway, I was holding little Puff to my chest for a close up of us together, and up she went, over my shoulder, to the floor, and she scrambled for a spot under my dresser. We caught her, unharmed, in the nick of time.

 She's a sweet little girl, very cooperative with her grooming sessions, as long as there's yummies involved. Even fully trimmed, you can't see her short little leggies, so it looks like she's floating as she bounces along. She's also a chirper and has done more of it than any piggie I've ever known. Of course, she won't reveal the meaning of those birdlike chirps, which remain a mystery to us all.