Guinea Pig Christmas Cards from Far Away

This year, the Prairie Pigs received two Christmas cards that had to travel a very long way to get to us, and both of them have guinea pigs on them!

Here are Eleanor and Lovely Rita showing off our beautiful cards, and also a lovely ornament that came from Auntie Penny in England. (it has guinea pigs on it, too!)    The card on the left is also from Auntie Penny while the one on the right came from Auntie Ann in North Carolina.  We want to send guinea pig Christmas cards, too, and we have already had a word with our Slave about finding some for us to send before next Christmas.  We didn't know that there were guinea pig Christmas cards --- what a wonderful idea!  

If you look very carefully, you might be able to see that Auntie Ann's card has a capybara tobogganing with a tiny little black and white guinea pig.  We have not met any capybaras in Saskatchewan yet, but we would like to!  They are just like guinea pigs except much larger.

Happy New Year and happy new pig.

 

All of the Piggyfriends would like to wish our readers a Happy New Year. Slave says that she hopes that it is better than 2021.

We would also like to introduce our new friend, Peaches. She was part of a huge rescue involving Pooh Piglets at Haywards Heath in England. Many of the sows were pregnant and Peaches' babes have been rehomed so she needed a new family too and Slave brought her home to live with us.

She needs fattening up after living in a place where she was not cared for and she is making up for lost time by eating everything that Slave puts in her pen. She is in quarantine for now so all the veggies are just for her. Please welcome little Peaches. We love her.

Christmas was fun and we learned lots of new things

 "Mama Bonbon was right," says Ambrose." "Lots of good things happened," replied Oscar.

Slave's son came to stay for a few days so she was very happy and so were all the Piggyfriends as he always brings lots of treats. He brought his new guitar and played Slave's favourite Christmas carol but we can't show a pigture of that. The humans ate some strange food that we had not seen before. We learned that we should always be kind to everypig and to share our treats.

We made some new friends. This jolly fellow is a mince pie ( but not for eating ). He is fat and cuddly like us.

And we met Slave's Nutcracker Soldier. When does Christmas come again Mama Bonbon? Not until next year? That is a long time to wait but Mama says that there is New Year to celebrate soon.

We hope that all piggies and their Slaves had a lovely time at Christmas.

It's a White Christmas in Saskatchewan!

 

It's a very frosty Christmas here in Saskatchewan, about the same temperature as Santa's place at the North Pole, but we Prairie Pigs have hearts full of the warmth of Christmas cheer!  Hello there; I am Lovely Rita, one of the newest Prairie Pigs, here to wish everyone and everypig out there a safe, happy and healthy Christmas!  Give your piggies some extra cuddles and munchies and raise a glass of rum egg nog to the hope of a post-Covid world in 2022!

Merry Christmas from the Piggyville Girls!

 

 

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Santa Claus Piggy climbed quietly down the tree to leave presents for good piggies...

"Look, Tilley!" said Squirly.  "Santa left us a Christmas pudding and a Christmas ornament, too.  We must have been very good piggies!"

We wish all guinea pigs and the humans who love them a happy and healthy Merry Christmas!

If this is Christmas, we approve!

 Mama Bonbon said that Christmas would be a surprise and.....

.....we agree with her. We have a pretty stocking full of our favourite veggies. 

The boys make a start on a carrot. This one is big enough to share.

"Ambrose! That is a whole pepper you have there! Slave always cuts them into pieces for us. Let me have some." says Oscar. 

" Shall we share it with some other piggies?" says Ambrose. " We do eat a lot but I think that even big piggies like us cannot eat all of this unless we have some hay and a nap first."

Oscar and Ambrose shared out their veggies with the other Piggyfriends and here are Picchu and Fionn having some pepper. 

"Christmas is all about giving, " says Picchu, who has seen many Christmases here.

We hope that all of our readers had a Merry Pigmas and the slaves too.

Is this Christmas?

" Hey Ambrose, there is a great big tree in the conservatory. It is covered with sparkly things and there are two toy gingerbread piggies hanging on it." says Oscar.

"Is this something to do with Christmas? I do not understand humans."