Pigtatoes

this is what dolores makes of christmas, or more precisely being asked to share christmas presents with her sisters

this is a Good Widdle Feets right here

it's this cute babb's first birthday today! we've had a broccoli brunch, a pamper session with her sisters using gorgeous guineas products, we're having a little cuddle and then I'm changing their fleeces so they can have a play in their cage before more broccoli.

vinny says hi! sorry I've been quiet, me and the piggies have moved house and we now have a super great, enormous shared piggy room and study which we love. we're still in the process of decorating/setting up but I'll have to take some pictures when it's all done.

I'm not even sure what guinea pigs are

momo is so cute it hurts! she likes to give me kisses and she makes the sweetest chirruping noises when I pet her

errrrrrm gussie, that does not look comfortable

It’s also worth looking on places like Craigslist/Gumtree etc. to see if there are any owners who are hoping to find new homes for the piggies they can no longer look after - however there are also a lot of breeders who use these sites so you’ve got to be careful. Also bear in mind that pets adopted from situations like this are more likely to be carrying diseases that can be passed on to your own piggies so they really need to be quarantined thoroughly before integration. 

this is doreen! she's six and a half years old (the vet didn't quite believe it because she's in such good health and looks great) and she enjoys naps, bossing around the younger pigs and having possession of the pig house. she doesn't much like being photographed which sucks because she is honestly so cute that I can't stop cuddling her.

so, dolores - despite being our youngest and only having been here for two days, she seems to be determined to be dominant pig - she's super confident with people! she's been really well socialised - she loves to get comfy and flops around in really odd positions haha. she also sleeps really deeply. the two combined can be a bit scary to be honest! - she's surprisingly tiny but you can't tell with all the fur - she's never met a food she didn't like - anyone who challenges her dominance can gtfo as far as she's concerned

there's something about dolores

meet dolores, the first of two piggies we're adopting this week! she's around 6 months old and she was one of a group who were given up for adoption after the breakdown of her owners' relationship. on tuesday we will be collecting another sow and I'll post about her then :D

little bear finds bank holiday weekends exhausting and is glad to be back to her normal routine of near constant naps

I hope I can post about them soon and have memorial posts for Tilly and Pickle but right now it’s not possible. I might post some pictures of my surviving lovelies - and we’re hoping to adopt some more, as we only have two sows in one very big cage right now, but sows are getting hard to find! 

Ultimately she was a total sweetie and we’re going to miss her and her piercing wheeks so much. We’ve lost six piggies since November (four in a little over a month), five of them from the same herd so it’s hit hard. We’re doing what we can to assure the health of the remaining piggies and I imagine in the coming months, once we are certain that everyone is healthy and strong and any infection has left, we will be bringing in new sows - and our solitary boar Vincent who lost his brother Theo a few weeks back will be having the snip and coming to be the new sow police!