Peter Gurney Memorial: this Sunday 9 March

From the GPDD:

"Everyone is invited to participate in our Annual Candle-Lighting Memorial, on March 9th, at 8:00 pm, in your particular time zone.  This is our annual candle-light memorial to officially remember Peter Gurney and all of our dear friends, both 2 and 4 legged, who are no longer with us, but are together at the Rainbow Bridge.  This has been our annual tradition for the past 8 years, and all you have to do is light a candle on March 9th, at around 8:00 pm, in memory of the piggies, and others that we want to remember.

For those who want to read more about this wonderful tradition of the GPDD, see the GPDD homepage, (www.gpdd.org), and the wonderful map and list of all the places where candles were lit last year.

Please mark your calendars for March 9th, 8:00 pm, and be a part of this wonderful memorial.  After March 9th, I'll ask you to post on the GPDD and let me know where you lit your candle - city, state, and country.

As candles are lit in each time zone, the light will move around the world, and all those at the Rainbow Bridge will see our lights, and know that we are thinking of them.

Audrey
(Remembering Gordon and Reese, at the Rainbow Bridge)"

Piggie dating: Guinygirlz update

So here is a small update, as could partly be read in the comments of our previous post.

We are pretty sure that the people that came to see Chip liked him, as he is no longer on the kuufke website. We are glad he found a new home but a bit sad we did not get to date this pretty silver boy.  Our mom's colleague already named him shadow.

There is now a picture of Gaia's daughter Gemma and her 2 sons on the website. See the boys Gijs and Goofy here

Isn't she the cutest?

In other good news (for us) Arjen and Willem are still there, though unfortunately (for us again) Willem is still intact so he cannot join us...

And the winner is....

Dutch shelter: 't Kuufke!!!

We would like to thank everyone who voted for them, and the other shelters.
We will have to do the precise maths, but we think 150 euros were raised by selling calendars, plus some extra donations.  You know who you are, thanks!

As the Guinygirlz wrote in their post, we will visit the shelter in April, hopefully we can them let you know what they did with our donation.

A very big thank you again to everyone who contributed pigtures, bought calendars, nominated shelters, voted for them and told others to vote!!

The blogging trinity
Mieke, M and Janneke

Friday Video: Shopping Penguin

Guinea Pig! Pig Pig Pig, Guinea Pig!
*picture happy dancing pigs in the Winky team cage*
Hat tip for the Guinygirls ;-)


Have a Piggy Wheekend!

Piggy dating: Guinygirlz pre-dating

Hi all,

As you probably all read our lovely friend and even niece Lily (Daisy was Lily's aunt eventhough Daisy was a day younger: Daisy's dad was Lily's grandpa ;)) left us for the bridge due to an inoperable mass in her tummy.
Eventhough we are all very sad about this, this also offers us the opportunity to find a new friend. And thus help another piggy in need of a forever home.
The plan is to go to the nominated shelter t Kuufke on April 12th.

To prepare ourselves we had a look at their website and their available piggies at the moment.

Our slaves said they liked (click on their pigtures to enlarge):

The Candidates

• sow Gaia, born november 2013 (still pregnant in the pigtures, gave birth to 3 babies on 16 February)

 

But unfortunately for our slaves she is already reserved. Slaves are hoping a bit that (one of) her babies will be old enough to date us.

• boar Arjen, born January 2012(?)

The texts say: "what does it smell like?" and "I think... like... sows!"

• boar Chip, born May 2013

Some days ago both Chip and Arjen got neutered, so they can join us in April if we like them!!

More up to date pigture of Arjen

• boar Willem, born 23 November 2012

Willem is still intact, so we are afraid we cannot date him. Our cousins Bo and Coco (or at least their slave) also like Willem, but it seems like we will not be fighting over him soon..

We will keep you up to date, as there can be added new favorites to our (slaves) list, and they could be reserved to go and live with other people and their guinea pigs...

The Guinygirlz: Woopy (almost 6!), Daisy and Roos
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Friday Video: Catmom

Even though this video leaves us slightly icky (if you've ever tried to sleep in a room with kittens you'll know why) but it is an interesting video.


Have a Caring Wheekend!

Vote for the shelter who will recieve the 2014 Calendar proceeds

You nominated the following shelters:

•  Excellent adventure sanctuary, Northampton, UK
  Read about them here!
• 't Kuufke, Limbricht, South Netherlands
  Why vote for t Kuufke?
• CT Guinea Pig Rescue, USA (or check out http://guineapigconnection.typepad.com/pig_notes/)
  Does the CT rescue get your vote?

You can vote on your favorite shelter until the end of the month!