Guinea Pig Fan Club

[Babyboonie]

I thought it was appropriate that as Blue Dragonfly started a Bunny fan club we should also have a Guinea Pig fan club as they are just as cute!!

So feel free to post pictures of your Squiggly Pigglies and chat about them in general.

Attached are my current two babies...Pooh (the mainly black one) and Piglet (the tan and black one). They are now 11 weeks old and are certainly developing their own little characters.....although the total opposite to their namesakes! Piglet is the curious, outgoing one and Pooh is the shy one...think I got their names round the wrong way!!

Mandy

[Whisk_Luva]

OK! Heres my Nut and Egg

Nut (black tan and white) is the outgoing one and she is always the boss!

Egg (brown, tan and white) is the shy one who gets bossed aroung by Nut!

They are sisters

How they got their names is a very long story so I wont go into that right now!

Together



Kiss!

Egg



Nut

[Pawsitive Thinking]

No longer have piggies of my own but looking forward to seeing them all here.

[Babyboonie]

aahhhhh Nut and Egg are sooooo cute!! You do realise Ellie that you are gonna have to tell us the story about how they got their names now that you've mentioned it!!

How old are they?

[animal_rescue]

I have two piggies of my own.

Squishy and Squirt. I'll see if I can find some pics of them.

[Whisk_Luva]

They are 4,

ok... So basically my mums friends parents have like a guinea pig farm, it was almost my birthday and my mums friends parents were coming to England from Scotland because my mums friends were getting married. So it was near my birthday and I wanted 2 guinea pigs, we didnt know if they would be boys or girls so naming was a bit hard. So my dad (the master of names! ) says what about Nut and Egg, I love it of course. Nut and Egg are the nicknames of my mums friends who are getting married and whose parents gave us the guinea pigs!

OK so on the practice of the wedding (I was a bridesmaid) the guinea pigs arrived and I picked them up one at a time. It was obvious Nut was the outgoing one and Egg was the quieter one. Nut (Catherine= the bride) made Egg (Greg= the groom) do a lot of the house work. So Nut (The guinea pig) was named after Catherine because shes the boss. Then Egg was named after Greg because she gets bossed around.

Ok the naming of the other guinea pigs! (Yes there are more! ) Ok so both Nut and Egg were pregnant when they came to us and we didnt know so my mum went out to see them in the day to find two big guinea pigs (Nut and Egg) and one little grey and white one (soon to be named Pepper). She was shocked and told me when I got home. There was only one baby, it was Eggs. That left Nut... we thought she was a boy! So my dad picked her up and realised she was pretty fat as well! We knew that she was also pregnant!

So time went by and I had a friend round (Lizzy) and we went to have our tea. We heard a very, very loud squeak! We both knew it was Nut. My mum said it was probs nothing but after tea we went outside to fine three little babies! Two of them grey and white and one a bit like Eggs colouring (although he was Nuts baby). You could tell the difference between the grey and white ones because one (later to be called salt) had a white stripe down her grey head, where as the other (later to be called Mustard) had an all grey head.

So we named them all foods just because Nut and Egg are both foods. So Eggs baby was called Pepper (looked like salt but bigger) , Nuts grey and white baby with a stripe was called salt, Nuts grey and white baby with no stripe was called Mustard and lastly Nuts brown, tan and white baby was called Vineagar.

My friend (Leila) had just lost her guinea pigs so she was going o take two babies. Her mum (an expert with guinea pigs) checked what gender the babies were. Pepper and Vineagr were boys and Saly and Mustard were girls. My friend took Salt and Mustard.

The other two were hard to find homes for but they went to my friends, sisters, boyfriends, stepmums, sister!

Salt and Mustard are both dead unfortantly (sp?) as one died on the hottest day of the year and the other the coldeset.

We do not know how Pepper and Vineagar are as we dont keep in touch with the owner.

Thats the story!