Candle Lighting at Piggyville.

 

Dear Peter. The greatest gift that you have given us is the gift of knowledge. It is a gift that goes on giving forever. Your students continue to share your knowledge with people all over the world.

Happy Birthday!!! Cheers from Tilley and Squirly of Piggyville, Swannanoa, North Carolina, USA.

The Prairie Pigs Light a Candle

Hello there!  I am Eleanor from the Prairie Pigs, admiring the Peter Gurney Memorial Candle that we lit here in Saskatchewan.  Even if you have a pile of cilantro in front of you, it's nice to take a moment to contemplate and remember..

This year, we are particularly thinking about our piggy paterfamilias Sundance, who departed for the Rainbow Bridge not long ago.  He was a wonderful guinea pig, sweet and kind, but also stern when he needed to be.  Our slave will always carry a memento of him in a rather impressive scar on her index finger, from the time she decided to avert an impending battle between Sundance and Edvard Munch  (due to a faulty catch on a cage door) by putting her hand between them.  Sundance did apologize immediately and she forgave him long ago but she still has that little reminder.

Candle Lighting at Piggyfriends

Hello Readers.

Peaches drew the short hay and was chosen to light our candle this year.

Peaches: Don't think that you are going to bribe me with that lettuce Slave. I need you to light the candle for me. That device looks dangerous to me.

Peaches: Thank you Slave. That was much safer and I did not get my whiskers singed.

All the Piggyfriends are remembering many Piggyfriends past and a whole host of pets that have gone to the Rainbow Bridge down the years but especially Daddy Slave, who is looking after them all until we can meet up again.

The Peter Gurney Memorial Is Coming Up Soon --- March 9th!

This is Scottie, and I am with a friend who is helping me get ready for the Peter Gurney Candle Light Memorial. (Don't you think there is a resemblance?)
 
The Peter Gurney Memorial is an annual event to celebrate the late Mr. Gurney, who wrote books about guinea pigs and contributed greatly to the knowledge about them. He is a hero to us guinea pigs, as well as to our humans.
 
We hope you'll join us in our celebration. All you have to do is light a candle at 8 p.m. in your time zone on March 9th, Mr. Gurney's birthday, and leave it lit for an hour if possible. At 9 p.m. your time, candles in the next time zone will be lit, and in this way our lights will travel around the world.
 
This event has been observed since 2006 and serves not only as a remembrance of Mr. Gurney but also as a remembrance of our other friends who have passed on, be they furred, finned, or feathered.
 
Afterwards, we hope you'll send the location where you lit a candle to PG_Memorial@gpdd.org (mailto:PG_Memorial@gpdd.org). Locations, but no names, are compiled and later posted on the Guinea Pigs' Daily Digest homepage at gpdd.org. Please visit there to see photos and locations of past participants.
 
If you take a photo of the event, such as your guinea pig beside a candle, please also send it to PG_Memorial@gpdd.org (mailto:PG_Memorial@gpdd.org). Note: There is an underscore between PG and Memorial; the entire address is not underscored.
 
I have two new brothers, Coke and Fitzgerald, who were a bit too fidgety to be in the photo with me, but we are all excited about the big day and hope you can join us!
 
 

Happy Valentine's Day

 The Piggyfriends wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day.

"Will you be my Valentine?" asks Orla.

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Fearghal is growing!

Slave managed to get a photo of Fearghal and Fionn together. He is not afraid of the camera anymore and he is getting bigger by the day.

He has a long way to go to catch up with his big friend Fionn.

Introducing Fearghal.

We have a new tiny friend here at Piggyfriends.

 

Our local rescue had several baby boars needing a home. Slave called them only to find that they had all been rehomed except for this little boy who had been left behind. He is a tricolour Abyssinian.

He is five weeks old in this photo. He has a slight head tilt caused, according to the lovely lady who runs the rescue, by being in an awkward position in his mother's womb. As soon as she heard about this, Slave was on her way to the rescue to bring him home. Our late lamented Otto had a head tilt and it never bothered him one bit so it upset Slave to think that this was a reason for him to be ignored at the rescue.

Slave took Fionn with her to see if they would make good friends and he sat in the rescue's introduction pen whilst the little boar raced laps around him leaving Fionn bemused. They came home together in one of our carriers and, by the time she got here, they had eaten all the veggies and were fast asleep.

It takes Slave a while to think of names for us all and she has decided to call him Fearghal, which means strong and courageous and we think that is a good name for a brave little boar. Say his name as Fergal as that is the nearest in English. Slave calls him "little sweetheart" most of the time anyway.

Here he is enjoying some fresh grass. Slave has tried to get some photos of him with Fionn but they were not very good so she will try again for another post. He is so tiny compared to Fionn, who is all black and does not show up very well.

This was meant to be a pigture of them both but Fearghal made a run for it before the camera flashed. 

Welcome baby Fearghal. Keep munching and you will grow as big as Fionn. Well, maybe not quite as big as Abbies do tend to be smaller than the average piggy.