Today is love your pet day!
Our J just told us that we make the whole house livelier with our antics and that is why she loves us. So spill the beans, why do you love your pet?
We hope you all have a Lovely day, and Wheekend ofcourse ;-)
Friday, February 20, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Meet the new girls!
Winky team has new additions! Meet Esk and Aagje!
Despite her qualifications as an escape artist, Esk is short for Eskarina the first female wizard on the Discworld. Aagje is our Curious Georgina, or as we say in dutch: Nieuwsgierig Aagje, constanly investigating, licking and biting things. She's also quite the commentator, muttering to herself when she's scurrying around the cage.
Aagje and Esk come from the Knaaghof. A very nice animal shelter in The Hague. Someone dumped Esk and Aagje together with four other pigs at a play farm and the shelter took them in and nursed them back to health. The pigtures that you see in this post, come from the facebook page of the knaaghof. They graciously allowed us to use them here. We can really tell that they were treated well in the shelter. They are such sweet girls, and it is obvious that they are used to being handled. They behave so well when their nails and hair are cut, or when their ears are cleaned
We are so happy with our herd of four (Ties, Bo, Esk and Aagje) we cannot imagine that we ever lived with only three pigs in our household (okay.. Coco had enough pigsonality for two. But still)
Despite her qualifications as an escape artist, Esk is short for Eskarina the first female wizard on the Discworld. Aagje is our Curious Georgina, or as we say in dutch: Nieuwsgierig Aagje, constanly investigating, licking and biting things. She's also quite the commentator, muttering to herself when she's scurrying around the cage.
Aagje and Esk come from the Knaaghof. A very nice animal shelter in The Hague. Someone dumped Esk and Aagje together with four other pigs at a play farm and the shelter took them in and nursed them back to health. The pigtures that you see in this post, come from the facebook page of the knaaghof. They graciously allowed us to use them here. We can really tell that they were treated well in the shelter. They are such sweet girls, and it is obvious that they are used to being handled. They behave so well when their nails and hair are cut, or when their ears are cleaned
Friday, February 13, 2015
Friday Video: Tiny Hamster's Tiny Date
We know, we're a day early. But Happy Valentine's day everyone! We love you all! *smooches the internet*. May your weekend be filled with lots of of rumblestruts and sexy purring. Ow yes, and food. Because you all know the way to a guinea's hart is through our stomach.
Have a romantic Wheekend!
Have a romantic Wheekend!
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Friday Video: Homemade Guinea Pig Toys
We loved last wheeks friday video so much, we decided to find another one for you this wheek. We tried out several of the toys and it was great fun trying to get all the food out. Which ones did you try? Or which ones do you plan to try? Let us know in the comments!
Have a fun Wheek!
Have a fun Wheek!
Friday, January 30, 2015
Friday Video: DIY Guinea Pig Toys
There are some really great ideas in this video! Don't forget to supervise your pigs while they play with the toys
Have a nice Wheekend!
Have a nice Wheekend!
Friday, January 23, 2015
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
New Guinygirl: Peaches
We got a new friend, named Peaches, end of october...
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| This is what she looked like at the shelter. She was observing everything curiously from her house |
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| Slaves tried to bond us three with her. She was curious, but very fierce, teeth chattering and even snorting at us |
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| As this led to a lot of agitation, we were separated. Peaches turned out to be very scared, also for our slaves. We had to find out who our new boss was after Daisy died. |
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| Peaches got used to slaves, but also got really bored. Bonding attempts failed... |
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| At the end of the Christmas holidays, slaves tried to bond us again |
Their plan was as follows:
1. Put all of us in a big run on neutral ground, with a fence in the middle. Peaches on one side, us three on the other side. They kept us in the run the whole afternoon, after about an hour it settled down a bit.
Having hay near the middle fence really helped there (Food = distraction and eating = social activity)!
2. The next day we switched sides. Again we were distracted with food.
3. Later that day the fence was opened, both the middle and the surrounding fence. This way we were given a bigger area to explore and to get to know each other. This way we could get away from each other if we wanted to. Berke did a great job protecting his ladies Woopy and Roos.
4. The fenced of area was closed again, making the area with all four of us smaller again. Again Berke kept doing a good job, and at some point Peaches accepted that. Victory!
5. We were put together in a thoroughly cleaned cage.
2. The next day we switched sides. Again we were distracted with food.
3. Later that day the fence was opened, both the middle and the surrounding fence. This way we were given a bigger area to explore and to get to know each other. This way we could get away from each other if we wanted to. Berke did a great job protecting his ladies Woopy and Roos.
4. The fenced of area was closed again, making the area with all four of us smaller again. Again Berke kept doing a good job, and at some point Peaches accepted that. Victory!
5. We were put together in a thoroughly cleaned cage.
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| All four of us together in our cage! Sorry for the bad picture quality. Roos is in stealth mode. Her red brown color and the red brown cage wall make her practically invisible. |
Slaves had a hard time putting us together, and they want to say keep trying as long as nobody gets really hurt (blood drawn). Also don't try to separate us too quick, Mikey found it really hard to not separate us once we started chattering and nipping at each other.
Greetings from our cage!
The guinygirlz
Woopy, Roos, new girl Peaches and boar Berke
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