Thursday, January 2, 2020

New guinygirl: Linn

Hi everyone,
My name is Linn! I am a little over a year old.

My previous owners brought me to an animal shelter after my friends went over the rainbow bridge.
The animal shelter I came from is the 'dierenbescherming' slave thinks this is like the english RSPCA (=Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). There was one lone piggy in the shelter, the others already had friends, that was me, I am glad Cookie and Binky liked me enough to take me home with them.
You probably already know my new friends, Cookie and Binky. Unfortunately they had to say goodbye to their friend Raani just before halloween, she had a saddle back and quite some bladder stones in the 3,5 years of her life.
I really like my new boar friend Binky, we love to lie next to each other in the cage. He is very big compared to me... Here we are sharing a leaf of endive (just before I ran of with his leaf again ;)


Though big, he and Cookie did loose weight since they meet me, I think all that running after me has made them more active.

I am a very vocal piggy, which slave Mikey likes a lot. Raani was also a little chatterbox at times, so she is happy I am a chatterbox as well.

At first I was rather afraid of taking veggies from the slaves. But the others always run up to the front of their cage, so I had to see what they were doing. I came here on 7 December 2019, and I now come to get my piece of veg, though occasionally I will steal a piece from the others. Slaves are sure I know my name, because when they call it out they can see me reacting. So after a week or so I learned when they are calling my name it means they have a piece of vegetable waiting for me. By now I have also learned that pills are okay, they others were so enthusiastic so I just had to try that. Slaves are glad I take the pills now, they say it will come in handy when I actually need pills, not sure what they mean by that...

I am not the best of friends with Cookie (yet), but she tolerates me most of the time. I do know she is safer then whatever is outside the cage and I tend to hide behind her or Binky whenever we get spooked by anything.

By now slave Mikey is pretty confident we get along well enough, ever since she found the three of us in and under our new hammock like this...


This was taken half an hour after the one above, we were still in the hammock. Cookie is with her back to us in the first pigture, if you can browse (press >) to the second pigture, you can see she was enjoying a bit of sunshine. Mom thinks Cookie might think she is a cat...


Anyway, now you know a bit about me,
wheeking new year, Linn
and the others Guinygirl Cookie, boar Binky
and slave Mikey

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Happy New Year 2020!





Here is Bonny Piggyfriend to wish you all a very Happy New Year.

" There won't be fireworks, will there?" asks Bonny.

"Not if I can help it, " replies Slave. " I do not like them either. If there are any nearby, I will put on a CD to drown the noise."

" I do not mind the pretty ones," says Bonny, " but not the ones that go BANG!".

"Me neither," replies Slave. " Luckily not many people live near us so we should all be OK."

The Piggyfriends all say HAPPY NEW YEAR READERS! If you have a New Year photo of your piggies, please share it with us.

Friday, December 27, 2019

Happy Boxing Day from the Prairie Pigs !


Hi everyone, it's me, Pavarotti from the Prairie Pigs!  We all want to wish everyone a wonderful peaceful and happy holiday season.  It's Boxing Day here in Canada and the silly humans are all out shopping, but we guinea pigs know how to really celebrate --- by eating cilantro out of boxes!

We received two piggy-themed Christmas cards this year (behind me in this photo).  The lovely card on the right came from Auntie Penny, all the way from England, and when you open the one on the left, the guinea pig sings Jingle Bells.  I`m known for my singing voice too, but I'm more of a tenor while the guinea pig who sings on the card sounds like a soprano (or maybe a chipmunk!).


Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Happy Christmas Readers!

Carter Piggyfriend here. On behalf of the Piggyfriend herd, I would like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas.




I hope that you all received lovely presents from your Slaves and that you are full of carrots and other good things. Now all of you be good piggies and let your Slaves have the rest of the day off after preparing Christmas feasts for the humans.

Slave Penny says Happy Christmas to all the readers too.

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Happy Holidays!

Nugget here. I've never been in a holiday photo without my brother Eddie
or my brother Stuart Little, but this year (not for long, my mom tells
me) I am a lone pig. Therefore I am here with my buddies Tommy the Elk
and, of course, Snoopy. We had fun posing together. I hope my mom and
dad put lots of goodies in my stocking, and I hope you get lots of
wonderful treats, too!

Monday, December 23, 2019

Sometimes posing for a pigture is a little bit scary.

Martin Piggyfriend here. Slave is taking lots of Christmas pigtures ( there is no stopping her once she gets out her camera ) and she wanted me to pose with this huge reindeer.





How come Bonbon and Magnus got to pose with the pretty things from the boxes? This was a step too far so I ran and hid underneath it.

Slave's son is home for Christmas so he picked me up to show me that the reindeer was not really scary just BIG compared to a little piggy like me. Actually, up close, he looks rather friendly so.....



.....I agreed to sit next to him and this is the result.




After all that excitement, I flaked out for a nice nap. I was too tired even to tackle that chicory leaf  ( but I did eat it later ).

Saturday, December 21, 2019

We have received a Christmas card!

"Look piggies! We have received a Christmas card," says Miss Marple Piggyfriend.





" And it has lovely piggies on the front. I will prop it up so that you can all see it."




Miss Marple shrewdly suspects that she has seen these piggies before and she is right.

She opens the card and detects that it has been sent by our friends the Surrey Squeakers.

" Thank you Squeakers," say all the Piggyfriends in unison " and thank you to Slave Stefanie too."

The Piggyfriends cannot help but notice that the Squeakers are eating grass, which is in short supply here at the moment as Slave's friend's farm is flooded due to the endless rain.