Makeover

We had a haircut.

(Coco) I usually really enjoy getting my hair cut, but this time the stylist cut it too short. I'm seriously considering going to a different stylist. Seriously. Madonna wouldn't put up with this. Neither would lady Gaga.

Hey stylist! I'm ready for some pampering

I hate you!

(Sjeuf) I never liked getting a haircut. I do not get Coco with her silly talk about me-time and relaxing. I just bolt.

And don't try distracting me with veggies; I'm too clever for that!!

Scanning the perimeter. Coast is not clear

Okay.. I have a weak spot and the stylist somehow figured it out. I am a real sucker for cuddling. Now I'm almost bald, she looks like a Yeti

The eating does not imply forgiveness!

Friday Video: the Guinea Pig Way

This week we have a classic as our Friday Video. Since most of you probably know Bing and his Guinea Pig Way, we'd like to ask you to get off your furry behind and DANCE!!!

It's almost wheekend so a little exercise will help you to get through the rest of this friday. Feel free to insert popcorns ;-)



Have a nice Wheekend!

Suus and Dunya's citytrip: The Hague - Part 1

This is a little story me (Mieke) and my sister Janneke made a couple of years ago.
I thought it would be nice to share something from the 'days of Yore'...

Suus and Dunya visit the Hague in the Netherlands

Suus and Dunya were nibbling on some nice basil leaves.

'Hmm, it sure is sunny outside, shall we go sightseeing in The Hague?' asked Suus.

'That's a great idea!, I'm already wearing my sunglasses', replied Dunya.

So the girls went to the Tram Stop.

Suus was eagerly waiting for the tram to arrive

'Suus, hurry up the tram is coming!!'

They both climbed aboard, and travelled to the city centre of the beautiful city of The Hague.

When they got out at the city centre's train station, the two little pigs sat down on a bench.

'WOW!! Look at all those bikes!!!' Dunya yelled.

'Those Dutchies must be very environmentallerly friendly...;-)'

Look!!

They named a street after Princess Snowflake, I knew she was famous!

Friday Video: Undercover Kitten

This kitten has a very nice camouflage technique, and he mixes it up with some extreme snuggling. Bet the humans are racing towards the fridge when they see that.

Well done kitten, well done ;-)



Have a nice Wheekend!

Friday Video: to the Guinea Cycle!

Dr. Trouble has done it again! This time he has stolen the guinea mobile, so the girls head to the guinea cycle!



Have a nice wheekend!

Final call: vote for the Dutch Guinea Pig Foundation

Hi All,

The guinygirls wrote about the Dutch Guinea Pig Foundation and asked you to vote so that they would have a shot at winning a Camper (last day to vote, so if you haven't, please do! We voted on every computer we have). We asked the guinea pig herd from Almere to write something about the Dutch Guinea Pig foundation, since many among their ranks come from the stichting cavia shelters, and they've been to the cavy-village in Bakkeveen.

Caviabende Almere

We, that is CaviaBende Almere, would like to tell you something about the shelter we came from. Pom used to live in a big herd (about 60 piggies!) because somebody let his/her piggies breed without limits. Sofie, Melissa and Darwin were signed over to Stichting Cavia because their former owner didn’t want them any more :-( Our new owner found Pom in the shelter in Bakkeveen, the girls in the shelter in Haarlem… and we are very happy together! Since we hope more piggies wil find a good home this way… well, we like to tell you something more about Stichting Cavia!

Stichting Cavia (Guineapig Foundation) was founded in september 1997.

The goals of the foundation are:

• To offer a shelter for guinea pigs and attempt to find a suitable new owner for them
• To supply information about guinea pigs in order to increase their well being and pleasure in life.
  Stichting Cavia headquarters is located in Bakkeveen (Friesland, Netherlands), but has many smaller shelters throughout the Netherlands and even in Belgium.

If someone is no longer able to look after their guinea pig, looking for a temporary care solution (ecc holiday), or looking for a new piggy at your home they are welcome here! Stichting Cavia also provides people with information about piggie healthcare and daily care. Stichting Cavia offers a shelter for guinea pigs from people that can no longer take care of their them  (regardless of the reason). Stichting Cavia doesn't charge the previous owners, they only ask them to fill in a declaration stating that Stichting Cavia is the new owner of the guinea pig. 

If the guinea pig is healthy and not too old, the foundation will try to find a new owner.
If they don't succeed in finding one, the guinea pig will spend the rest of its life in the cavy-village (Caviadorp) in Bakkeveen.

Most of the time Stichting Cavia has a large number of piggies available, so if you are looking for a piggie: check Stichting Cavia first before you go to the petshop…!

Caviabende Almere enjoying their forever home

With getting a new piggie from Stichting Cavia you also become a contributor of the foundation for 1 year and you receive the newsmagazine “de CaviaKrant” (Guinea pig newspaper) twice a year.

Amongst the many guinea pigs that are brought to Stichting Cavia there are also old animals and animals with a weak health. In principle, these guinea pigs can still have a good life despite their shortcomings. However, due to the time and costs involved in their caretaking, they are not suitable for the average pet owner. These guinea pigs stay in the cavy-village for the rest of their lives.

You can support these guinea pigs by financially adopting them for the amount of 16 euro a year (you can deposit this amount on account 7741751 or bank account 50.16.28.460 of Stichting Cavia in Bakkeveen). You can choose the guinea pig on this page (in Dutch). 

Of the guinea pig(s) that you decide to adopt financially, you will receive an adoption certificate. If you extend the adoption with another year, you will receive a card with a short description of how the guinea pig is doing. Additionally, you will receive our newsmagazine "De Caviakrant" (Guinea Pig Newspaper, in Dutch, only delivered in the Netherlands) twice a year. Thanks to your help, the guinea pig can enjoy the rest of his or her life in the cavy-village.

If you are interested to support us by financially adopting one of the guinea pigs in Bakkeveen, you can send an e-mail to: informatie@stichtingcavia.com

Caviabende Almere

Vote for the Dutch Guinea pig foundation (stichting cavia)

Hi all,

We have a request for you, the dutch ebay, called 'marktplaats' is giving away a camper. Many groups and foundations have signed up to become the new owner of this camper.
We just heard from our friends of the Guinea pig gang Almere (@caviabendealmer on twitter) that the Dutch Guinea Pig foundation (stichting cavia) is competing.
They have guinea pig shelters in the netherlands, and a big guinea pig village where they take care of loads of unwanted guinea pigs. They pick up about 3000 guinea pigs a year, and their van unfortunately is old and broken at the moment...
Please take a minute to vote for them!!!
Vote here and click on the 'Steun mij' button, which means 'support me'

http://www.winjouwmarktplaatscamper.nl/mijn-camper/stichting-cavia/

Thanks from all the Dutch guinea pigs
and us,
The Guinygirlz (who luckily have a forever home):
Woopy, Lily, Daisy and Roos

P.S. you can vote until the 10th of May
p.s.2 Also don't forget to vote for the caption contest!

Friday Video: to the Guineamobile!

Dr. Trouble has stolen the lettuce from the fridge. Such evil cannot go unpunished so these two awesome guinea girls go 'to the guinea mobile' and rescue the poor lettuce



Have a nice Wheekend!

p.s. don't forget to vote for the caption contest

Caption Contest Vote

Vote for you favourite caption to chose Agents of the months for May.

Floortime!

As you can see from the video we love floor time especially Roos.

To make play time interesting for piggies we highly recommend toys our favourite toys are simple and cheap to make, empty boxes!!

You can make tunnels or hideys out of empty boxes, you can stuff them with hay or hide nibbles in them or just use them to make a chicane to run around.

Friday Videos: the Shelter Pet Project

We totally agree with the dogs and cats, humans are so weird!


Poop already! WOL WOL


Ours has the same deficiency *sigh*


The gathering of the toys.. yep. We don't get that either


Ow and we love the message that these videos are sending:

"A person is the best thing to happen to a shelter pet
Be that person!"

Have a nice wheekend!

Caption Contest

Whats in the Mail?



A Piggy Special Delivery!!




OK had Enough I'm Coming Out

Meet mystery Agent Blaze so called due to her Blaze of white. Agent Blaze lives in Illinois as part of a mixed herd and her real name in Hebrew means favourite of God and is a variation of the name Anne. For those in the UK who recall Eastenders from years ago her real name is the same as that of the actress who played Dirty Dens wife.

Get Guessing..............

An Agent Zeppelin Mystery

Our super spy is trying to improve his techniques (getting a smaller bottom doesn't seem an option), So this week he is using props.

Pigture 1. An easy one as a warmup

Pigture 2

Pigtures 3

Trying to confuse the humans by hiding in their favorite food (a wrap to hold beer bottles togethers), well done agent Zeppelin!

Get guessing

Caption Contest

Only One of us is the Real Deal but Which One?

Meet new Agent Triangle we will leave you to guess which pig is Triangle and why

Triangle lives in Illinois as part of a mixed herd her real name means Oak Tree in Hebrew and Halo of Light Around the Moon in Turkish. It is also the name of a medieval city on the Red Sea.

This is a tough one so get guessing.

Camera shy

J taught us not to be afraid of the camera, and she taught us well. Every time she comes up with the thing, we stop sleeping/snuggling/eating, run up to the bars, and strike a pose.

That silly human however, is not happy at all. Apparently she wants photos of sleeping/snuggling/eating instead of close ups of our nostrils.

Hrmpf..

Sjeuf

Bo

Coco says 'veggies, please?'

Pretty please?

a smile from Bo

Caption this pig!

We'd like to enter the last photo of Sjeuf for the Caption Contest. Our submission is:

I pity the fool who tries to deny me my carrots!

This is What Your Kind Donation Bought

Hi all have heard from Suzy of Glynneath Guinea Pig Rescue who won the vote for our calendar money and here is how the donation has been spent.

An update on the funds given to the rescue thanks to all your votes.

150kg (10 sacks) of guinea pig food has been delivered and paid for by the donation by Undercover Guinea Pigs. This feed makes up 50% of their daily dry feed and should last the rescue around 12 weeks.




JohnnyPig sends his love too - big blurry kisses for everybody!




A huge thank you from me too of course for the tremendous support given to the Glynneath Guinea Pig Rescue

Suzy xxx


We would like to say again thank you to everyone who voted, everyone who bought a calendar and most importantly thank you to the GuinyGirlz for making it happen.

New calendar for next year... watch this space

Caption Contest

Agent Oreo- Take That Mole!!

Caption contest

*Show me the veggies!*

Caption Contest

" YOU DIE,  MR. BOND"

 

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Last month, when the weather was warm, Slave took us out into the garden to take photos. It was not until we viewed them all later that we noticed this one of my friend, Elliot, looking disapproving, like those rabbits. He is normally a very jolly fellow but he could not have liked the sun in his eyes. Slave's son said that Elliot was auditioning to be the next Bond villain, so allow me to present " Dr. Evil Pig". All he needs is a fluffy white cat or maybe one of our fancy mice.

 

From Agent Storm.

Happy Easter Everyone

This is Agent Wizard, on behalf of the Piggyfriends, wishing everypig and every Slave a very Happy Easter.

Don't worry about us piggies eating unsuitable foods. - the chocolate is for our Slave and her human family to enjoy and the flowers are just for show. I could just have a munch of that tasty cardboard box though.....

Thank you for voting

Sally and Susie Piggyfriend want to thank everyone and everypig who voted for Palace Piggies, from where we were rescued. Palace Piggies did well to come second.

 

NB. Slave was very careful to watch that we did not eat the daffodils. We just wanted some flowers to make our pigture look pretty.

An Agent Zeppelin Mystery

Agent Zeppelin is always improving his craft. He enjoys outsmarting the humans (huh.. like it's hard) and his cagemates by confusing them. Is he facing the food bowl or the hay rack? Which station should be guarded from the jaws of this ambitious LAPS pig?

See if you can find out. Get guessing!

Food bowl or hay ball?

Cardboard box or camera?

Your guinea pigs age in human years

I stumbled upon this nice article on guinea pig today:

http://www.guineapigtoday.com/2012/03/12/calculate-your-guinea-pigs-age-in-human-years/

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Top of the morning readers!

 

The Piggyfriends want to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day and I have been chosen as their representative.

 

Slave says that every pig here can be a secret agent. How exciting is that! Beats living in a cardboard box anyday.

 

She gave me an Irish name when I came here so I have chosen to be called Agent Shamrock. I live with my best friend Domino, who has shared my life through the hungry cardboard box years and the outdoor living and is now safely indoors with me here at Piggyfriends, where veggies are plentiful and there are pens of beautiful sows nearby.

 

We spent time recovering at our Rodentologists before moving here and our favourite food there was carrot but Slave forages for yummy leaves for us and we currently are enamoured of dandelion leaves.

 

Slave says that unless, like her, you are into Irish mythology or garden design, you are unlikely to guess my real name. If you read the GPDD, you might have seen me and my friend collecting trash aboard the Black Pearl in the current virtual story. The only clue that I can suggest is to think of an Irish name beginning with  D and don't worry about the spelling.

 

Have a great day. Glasses of carrot wine all round. Slonshal.

Adopt Rescued GPs Month

Agents Pirate and Magician want to show their support for Adopt Rescued Guinea Pigs month, as well as their favorite rescue organization.

The slogan they have come up with is:

Save some guineas, adopt rescued piggies!

We had a bath

We shouldn't have said that we'd never had a bath..

Miss Bo

Agent Chanel

Sjeuf

For those of you who are still wondering how J tells Coco and Sjeuf apart, here are some hints:

• Coco is actually white, with only two lilac spots around her eyes 
• Sjeuf is lilac all over 
• Coco is a coronet. This means that she has a crest on her head and long hair everywhere else. Or as she likes to say; I wear a crown, since I am a queen ;-) 
• Sjeuf is a sheltie, no crests
• And most of all, Coco is a girl and Sjeuf is a boy!! When in doubt (as if..) check underneath ;-)

Hat poll

Thank you to all our wonderful Agents who joined in with the hat competition now its time to chose who gets to be Agents of the Month for March.

Voting is open until the 10th March so get voting now!!

The Glynneath Guinea Pig Rescue

The Glynneath Guinea Pig Rescue

The rescue was set up in '03. Started because I felt guilty sitting on my backside watching animal rescue programmes feeling sorry for the animals and when I had the knowledge and experience to do something about it! So I got off the sofa and started organising. Had a shed built, constructed cages and runs, read and learnt as much as possible and let local rescues and vets know about me. The first guinea pigs arrived very soon and since then the rescue has grown every year. I now rescue over 150 guinea pigs a year, this year could be my busiest as I have already taken in 45 in the first 6 weeks of the year, with many on the waiting list for space.



Uncle JohnnyPig


JohnnyPig has poor dental health and requires trimming every month so is a lifelong resident at the rescue. He has earned his place at the rescue by becoming the resident Uncle Pig to all the baby boys that have to leave their mothers at 3 weeks old so no accidental pregnancies occur. He has a kind and gentle nature, is very sweet with the boys and teaches them guinea pig manners. Despite being the heaviest pig in the rescue at over 1.5kg he plays with the babies and popcorns as much as they do.

Vid of Johnny with his latest assignment


1000th pig and the Piggy Bank

In response to the need for more help for piggies across the country than a single rescue or individual can provide I founded the Piggy Bank, a collective of volunteers for guinea pig rescue support, made up mostly of members of The Guinea Pig Forum. There is a central database of all contact details of the members so that when a rescue situation occurs, we have a response team in any area that can be called upon. For the larger scale rescues we work as a network to locate rescue space and transport the pigs to the rescues. The Piggy Bank is still in it's infancy but has helped with small and large cale rescues already, very successfully.

Piggy Bank

Since the first rescue pig, Mr Binkie, arrived on 6th July 2003 The Glynneath Guinea Pig Rescue has now welcomed it's 1000th piggy. He arrived on 18th February 2012, one of the '285 rescue' - Thanks to the Piggy Bank for their part in this rescue, finding rescue space and transport for 120 boars.

https://www.facebook.com/piggybank.gpr



1000th Piggy



Thank you Suzy for this informative update about the rescue, we would like to raise our paws and clap for the wonderful job you are doing.

Who should we donate the calendar proceeds to?

Many of you have pigticipated in the making and buying of the Undercover Guinea Pigs Calendar 2012.
Now we need your votes, who should we donate the profit to?
Read the motivations of the people who nominated their shelters, and why they should win here.











Voting is open until 30th March winner to be announced 31st March.

One a side note that are still a few calendars left, which you can still order. Click on the link in the right column to order yours...

Pigs with Hats

You would think that, with all the junk she has laying around here, our Slave would have been able to find us hats for this competition. Other than the Christmas hat which has already been featured, she could only come up with a tiara, which is not really a hat but I hope that this will count.

 

I was not keen on wearing these but, after being bribed with some chicory, this is the best that I could do.

 

You'll have to excuse my wet chin. These poses needed a lot of chicory. Yummy.

 

Agent Firenze.

New Agents: Peggy, Daisy, Mabel & Betty!

Hello fellow-agents! We’re 4 little piggies in the UK who would like to introduce ourselves to all the other agents on this page!

 

 

I am agent Peggy. I am the boss here and get all the best food for myself – which I why I’m currently a curvy 1.3kg . I had a rubbish year last year and got cysts on my ovaries. They made me very grumpy so my human slaves sent me for an operation.  I was so cross about this that I didn’t eat for ages and lost all my lovely curves. My slaves gave me lots of sloppy food in a syringe for weeks and weeks. In the end, I got totally fed up of it and decided it was just going to be easier all round if I started eating on my own again. Here’s a picture of me trying to catch up on my sleep while the other idiots I share a cage with generally mess around and disturb my beauty sleep.

 

 

This is my sister, Agent Daisy. She’s not too bad I suppose. She’s less stupid that the other two but she does eat a lot which gets on my nerves.

 

 

This hairy little monster turned up last year, her name is Agent Mabel. As soon as she saw me, she thought I was her mum and followed me everywhere. Daisy didn’t help at all with babysitting even though I offered to give her extra cucumber. However, Agent Betty turned up a few months later and since then, Agent Mabel is generally preoccupied playing stupid baby games with her so I get a bit more peace.

 

 

Here is Agent Betty. I do try and be nice to her because her old owners didn’t want her anymore and I felt really sorry for her. The human slaves picked her up from her old owners one dark, snowy evening with a rabbit friend! Both of them were very cold because they had been outside and didn’t have a proper roof. Well, I wasn’t going to share my house with a rabbit so he carried on his journey to a nice rescue centre to find a new rabbit friend. Betty couldn’t join us for a while because she was very scared and had lice! Everyone thought she was a baby because she was very small but after a few weeks, she came to live with us and put on weight so quickly, she’s now nearly as heavy as Agent Daisy and she’s 1.5 years old! She really got on my nerves at first because as soon as I went to say ‘hi’, she’s run a mile and sit there shaking. The human slaves thought I was being nasty to her but I wasn’t! I think she was scared after living with that big, old rabbit! Anyway, we were very nice to her and shared all our stuff and now she always gets the best spots to sleep, which isn’t fair really and we were here first. Oh well...

 

 

I’ll sign off for now. Thanks for listening to our stories. Much love, Agent Peggy xxxx

Message from Agent Ripple

http://www.jollygrub.com/

this is Agent "Ripple" reporting that I was looking on line to find out what a Ripple candy was and found this fun site that the "states" members can order fun stuff from Britan on it!! and the Ripple candy was in there as well!! enjoy !