Our Famous Five

Here's a video taken in 2007 when we only had 5 piggies and room for a dining table:

Home improvements

We dismantled, spring cleaned and redesigned our guinea pig cage yesterday.

Introducing: Flick

Felicity, aka Flick, is our youngest guinea pig. She's full of personality: very cheeky, very bossy and above all very, very loud. We've had many vocal guinea pigs over the years and noticed that skinny pig are more so than their hairy friends. Flick, however, is in a league of her own! And she's teaching the rest: Amy and even shy old Molly have found their voices.

Catch up and Good-bye's

In the months since I last updated this blog we have seen too many changes to our little herd...We lost two of our skinnies: gorgeous origi-skinny Angela and beloved horsey-face Amanda.

Angela

Amanda

In December, three more skinnies joined our herd: Felicity, Kate and her baby daughter Sookey. Unfortunately Sookey's stay with us was only ever so brief as she passed away this January.

We miss our three skinnies tremendously!

After all these changes, our herd now consists of 14 female guinea pigs ranging in age from a few months to over 5 years: Molly, Keleigh, Jenny, Betty, Bonnie (Bonsai), Zoe, Cassandra, Diane (Dianey), Fiona, Amy, Monica (Monka), Melissa (Melly), Felicity (Flick) and Kate.

Guinea Pig Weights

Today's weights are:

Molly: 1176g

Keleigh: 1020g

Betty: 1265g

Jenny: 1207g

Bonnie: 1271g

Fiona: 1375g

Zoe: 1046g

Cassandra: 1197g

Diane: 1224g

Amy: 966g

Angela: 909g

Monica: 909g

Melissa: 1035g

Amanda: 868g

Thanks, Keleigh, for listening and putting on some weight.

Photoshoot: Jenny

Next up on the catwalk - or rather cavywalk - is Jenny:

She is such a special piggy! The bravest and most strong minded guinea pig I've ever met! 

Guinea Pig Weights

I gave the Gorgeous Guinea Girls a manicure/pedicure today and took their weights:

Molly: 1170g

Keleigh: 993g

Betty: 1269g

Jenny: 1239g

Bonnie: 1286g

Fiona: 1359g

Zoe: 1042g

Cassandra: 1190g

Diane: 1227g

Amy: 955g

Angela: 909g

Monica: 910g

Melissa: 1044g

Amanda: 819g

(listed by age - from oldest to youngest)

Although Bonnie looks by far the largest, it's interesting that Fiona is actually quite a bit heavier. Amy is too light for my liking probably due to being on antibiotics for 3 weeks this summer.

I also would like Keleigh to be over one kilo again, but she has always been a slender piggy and her gradual weight loss is likely due to her age. In comparison Molly used to be around the 1300g mark so she's probably lost the same amount of weight as Keleigh as she turned from a woman into an older lady.

Angela and Amanda are about the same age as Melissa but about 130g lighter - I guess that's the difference between hairless and hairy!

Photoshoot: Betty

Here are some pictures of our lovely Betty:

I absolutely love black piggies and Betty's coat is so very shiny. She's a fantastic piggy!

Photoshoot: Keleigh

Here are some pictures of Keleigh after her recent bath:

I hope she wasn't questioning my talents as a photographer in this last picture!
She's our second oldest piggy, but doesn't show her age at all.

Photoshoot: Molly

Here are some pictures of beautiful Molly taken after she had a bath a couple of weeks ago:

Video: Guinea Pig Travel Journal

Here's another video I uploaded to You Tube a while ago:



I tried to tape them a few weeks prior to this on the same journey, but most of them decided to remain in the kitchen and I had to pick them up and carry them back to their home. You just can't count on cooperation from my beautiful girlies. They have a mind of their own and strong personalities. That's why I love them so much!

Relaxing in Style

The Guinea Girls certainly know how to live a life of leisure and luxury:

Princess Angela

Queen Amy

Empress Betty

I bought this jewellery box quite a while ago but the girls never liked it. Now it looks like it finally has come into fashion - guinea pig style.

Skinny Pigs

Our gorgeous skinny pigs enjoy the warmer weather. They are full of energy which they mostly spent on arguing with each other. They are proper teenager brats right now.

However they also have their peaceful moments:

Angela is sunbathing while Monica retired to a shadier area (and Amy hiding underneath the bed).

Another picture of "Put-A-Jumpa-On-Angela" in the sun, this time with Amanda in the background.

Close-up of stunning "Monca".

And last but not least a picture of wee Amanda better know as "Horsey-Face":

A few more things

I've made another couple of cosy things for the Guinea Girls today.

A new padded mattress for their bed:

A comfy pillow made out of old pyjamas and stuffed with off-cuts:

And to wash all these nice new things - 15 litres of home made laundry detergent:

Spoilt wee sausages!

Comfy cushion and blankets

I've made a few things for the Guinea Girls today.

A new cushion for their cage:

Three lap blankets:

Thanks Clarence, Marvin and Stephen for showcasing these.

I've spotted several of the Guinea Girls sleeping on and fighting over the cushion and Zoe has kindly christened one of the lap blankets already ;) So quite a success!