Just to let you know: we found Daisy had crossed the bridge early on last monday morning... I am devastated as she was doing so well on saturday after a bladder stone surgery on friday. \Her belly was really swollen,
we suspect her bowels were punctured when trying to get air out with a
needle... that caused fluids/air to leak in to her belly cavity and madeher belly make sloshing sounds...
The vet's assistant punctured her swollen belly when I took her body in on mondag, and said only blood was coming out. She suspects she had an internal bleeding.
She was pretty certain whatever it was that they could not have done much
about it, and she was impressed we got her through the weekend at all...
Hug all your piggies from me!
Mieke, Erwin and the remaining Woopy (almost 6,5!), Roos and Berke
P.S. I will post what happened in the upcoming days... (If you are on the GPDD you probably already read it...)
This is Daisy with her boyfriend Agent Zeppelin, they met when we drove south to get Bérke
As it is already October, it is time to start gathering photos again for the calendar of 2015.
As always I will collect photos of your guinea pigs. By sending me the pigtures you allow us to use it in the calendar, and on the blog for calendar related posts.
The proceedings will be donated to a guinea pig shelter somewhere in the world, which you can nominate and vote for.
This year I would like to try a slightly different format. Before, we let people send in pigtures of their piggies, and every (group of) piggie(s) would get their own month.
For the upcoming year I would like to give all months a piggy breed theme: so for example one month for short/smooth-haired, one for abyssinians, one for rexes, one for US/CH teddies, one for crested, longhaired piggies and so on. I am not sure we can actually find 12 different breeds but I think we can also fill 2 months for some breeds...
Every month we can have a different breed, that will be discussed on the blog. So describing what the traits of a breed are, and other interesting information about that breed. Maybe we could also have a look at the different colorings?
For both gathering pigtures and more information about the different breeds I will need you help!
So what do you think, are we up for this?
Up to now I have always used Vistaprint for the calendars, because they have offices on all continents it seems, which reduces the shipping costs. I have not really found a better candidate yet, but if you have good suggestions for a company like Vistaprint, let me know.
So assuming we will do the next calendar is a Piggy breeds format, I made a list of what breeds I could think of. Please add a comment if you have piggies in those or other breeds and you can provide pigtures of your current or late piggies.
Happy wheeking,
Mieke
Guinea Pig Breeds (I could think of)
- Short / Smooth -haired
- Abyssinian
- Peruvian
- Rex
- US / CH Teddies
- Texel
- Alpaca
- Coronet
- Crested
- Merino
- Hairless: Skinny and Baldwin
- Ridgeback
Sorry this is so late, but unfortunately I could not get into contact with Jan who owns these gorgeous piggies, but she did give me this info when sending me their pigtures.
Enjoy!
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Anya
Agent Name: Agent Demon Girl
Favorite Food: Carrots
Hobbies: Trying to take over the pen from Boomer
Boomer
Agent Name: Agent Athena
Favorite Food: Green Beans
Hobbies: playing in tunnels and trying to put down insurrections by Anya
Dargo
Agent Name: Agent Gentleman D
Favorite Food: Anything
Hobbies: Staying out of the way of Anya and Boomer
Gandalf says to Tyrion, " There has been a lot of noise outside today. When we have finished this snack, let's go and see what has been done."
" Ooh look, Gandalf!" exclaims Tyrion. " There are walls now and the windows have glass in them. " " It looks a lot more like a proper room now," replies Gandalf.
Just then a van pulls up and piles of mysterious
flat boxes begin to be unloaded so the boys run back to their temporary
accommodation before they are seen and tell the other piggies what they have
discovered.
The next day Dorian and Rafferty
take their turn exploring.
" Those boxes were full of tiles," says Dorian,
" and now they are on the floor."
" They are very grey and dusty," says Dorian, " but they make good camouflage for me! "
" They look black in Slave's catalogue." replies Rafferty. "I'll be able to hide amongst them when they are cleaned up."
The piggies hear another vehicle pull up outside and sneak around the garage to see what is happening. They hide behind Slave's car and see that a skip has been delivered. " Slave will be so pleased to see all the debris being taken away." they all think.
