Happy First Birthday to our Pigpenpals

Our Pigpenpals, Maki and Niko, in Connecticut have just celebrated their first brithday.

Here they are, all in a heap with their mama, Rin. Can you tell where one pig ends and the other begins? No, we cannot either! Rin is nearly 3lbs. in weight. She could have been a LAPS piggy with a few more carrots.

Anyone remember the LAPS? Large and Ample Pig Society. Our late Daisy was one time President.

Happy Birthday little ones with many more to come.

Nugget is 3!

Hello, I am Nugget and I am 3 today, April 20. I have never been 3
before, so it will be a new adventure for me. I live with my older
brother, Eddie, who is a wonderful brother, and cucumber is one of my
favorite foods. In fact, my mom had to give me a cucumber piece as my
modeling fee. I hope you enjoy my pigture.

Where are you Martin?

"Where are you Martin?" asks Fernando. " I cannot see you!"

" I cannot find you Fernando!" says Martin. " Why are you hiding from me?"

"There you are!" say both Piggyfriends to each other. " Someone had knocked over our tunnel and I could not see you behind it." says Martin. " Slave has stood it up again and given us this lovely grass. Let's eat." replies Fernando. " When we were piglets we used to sit beside each other in our tunnel to eat. It must have shrunk." says Martin.

Alternative Easter 'egg' hunt

We had an alternative Easter egg hunt, we hunted for Parsley, and also for little tomatoes, slices of carrot and pieces of endive (but not in this video)

Did you get to hunt veggies?
Wheeks,
The guinygirlz and boar Binky

Happy Easter Everyone

Look what the Easter Bunny has brought.

"I am not sure that I want to eat those" says Carter Piggyfriend. " Shall I give them to our Slave? She loves chocolate."

" I think that I would prefer that lettuce."

" On behalf of the Piggyfriends and our Slave, Penny, I would like to wish you all a very Happy Easter. I hope that your Slaves get lots of Easter Eggs."

Friday video: New life, just in time for Easter

Five babies, born this morning. Axelle gave birth to two daughters and Yana put a daughter and two sons into this world. We're enjoying their clumsy movements.

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This was posted by the shelter where me and my sister Janneke usually get our boars

Happy St.Patrick's Day.

On behalf of all the Piggyfriends, Agent Diva 1 aka Lulu wishes everyone a happy St. Patrick's Day.

I do not mind wearing Slave's shamrock necklace but I do not think that I want to try the earrings. I am sorry that I have left some bits of my coat on your jumper but it is a small price to pay for me posing so nicely. You did not think that I would do that did you Slave? You thought that I would rush off and hide under the table!

Esk washing her slave part two

OMG he didn’t shave 🌵

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We also lit a candle

We also lit a candle for the Peter Gurney memorial!

What is that smell? Cookie says while sniffing the air

Raani also comes to have a look and investigate.
Oh it's a candle to remember our late friends
Like Bérke, Peaches and Tijger

Binky! Come have a look, you never seen this either
because you were the last to join us

Candle Post

Hello This is the first time I have tried to post to the blog. I hope
this works out. Cheers, Ann of Piggyville




March 9th 2018: The Peter Gurney Light That Went Around the World

Honeydew and Squirly of Piggyville in Swannanoa, North Carolina USA lit
a candle in memory of their Hero Peter Gurney. Our slave reads to us at
bedtime. Peter Gurney's book "The Last of Their Kind" is our favourite
bedtime story. His guinea pigs actually wrote the book. We never get
tired of hearing Sarah, Iggy, Ruby, Dusty, Dennis and Free Range Jake
give their views of what life was like living with Peter. We are sure
that many slaves would enjoy a book written by Peter's piggys too.

Candle Lighting 2018

On the 9th. March at 8 pm. members of the GPDD light candles in memory of the piggies who are at the Rainbow Bridge as well as other pets and humans who are, sadly, no longer with us.

We usually ask our eldest Piggyfriend to light our candles so here is our beloved Otto doing the honours.

Below is another photo in which you can see him with his best friend Niamh. She was our candle lighter last year as our Slave was away on holiday so it was down to our pigsitter to be our photographer and he picked Niamh as he knew that she would sit still and not set fire to her whiskers.

Finally here is a better view of our candles, which were rather obscured by our candle lighters.

If any of our readers lit candles and would like us to post their pigtures, please get in touch at the usual address ( see Contribute ).

Friday video: piggy washing her slave

My sister's piggy likes to wash her slaves hands...

Esk likes washing her staff 😅

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A Piggy A-Z. F is for Fans

We hate the winter, when the grass struggles to grow and we have to be indoors all the time because it is too wet and cold so we are reminiscing today.

It does not get hot very often in England but we do have a few days when it is too warm for us ( and for Slave ) so we have lots of fans around the house to keep us all cool.

In the pig room ( Slave calls it her conservatory but there are nearly as many piggies in it as plants ) we have a ceiling fan as the roof is glass and it lets in too much heat. Here it is.

It is nice and quiet and is also our light at night.

We also have several floor fans and you can see one of them below.

The towels stop us being in a draught but the cool air can circulate. That is me, Louis Piggyfriend, eating from my bowl. Otto and Niamh live next door to me but they are behind the towel and you cannot see them.

Slave tells us that, on milder days, the grass is beginning to grow but that it is very muddy in the garden after the snow has melted and we have had a lot rain today but we all look forward to going out to pick our own grass in the summer.

A Piggy A-Z. F is for Frozen!

"Come and look out of the window," calls Niamh Piggyfriend. "Everything is frozen!"

"Where has our grass gone?" ask the rest of the Piggyfriends. " We cannot see it at all."

"Don't worry," replies Otto.  "That white stuff is called snow. It is just frozen rain. It does not happen very often here but I can remember seeing it when I was a piglet."

" When it gets warmer, it will all melt and we will be able to see our garden again. In the meantime, Slave has bought us bags of veggies to eat."


We expect that lots of readers are used to snow in winter but it is a novelty to us in SE England. We know that Aunty Pat's Prairie Piggies have loads of snow in winter.

A Piggy A-Z. F is for Freaking out in the bath.

Slave decided that it was time for me, Carter Piggyfriend and my friends, Saoirse and Aoife to have a shampoo. Some of us enjoy this and some do not as you will see from the following photos.

This is me ( above ). I love a shampoo and you can see me relaxing in the bath whilst the lather from the shampoo does its stuff.

On the other hand, some pigs "F for Freak out" when it is bath time and above you can see my friends who, after several laps of the bath that Slave calls the "Wall of Death" have tried to hide in a rolled up rubber bath mat. You might think that sows would take a pride in their appearance and appreciate a spa treatment but not these two.

Afterwards we were all bundled up in soft towels to dry off. You can only just see me but my girls have buried themselves in the towels and you will have to take my word for it that they are there. Instead of them, here is a plug for our F for Favourite shampoo. Wonderful for piggies and all pets.

And here I am, back in my pen, nice and clean and F for Fluffy. I think that I will tear a bit more from my box. I do enjoy some F for Fun.

Here is Saoirse recovering from the shock of that bath.

And here is Aoife. They enjoy tearing up the boxes too as you can see.Luckily there seems to be an infinite supply of new ones. I wonder where they come from?

Willie and Mr. P.S. Beasley.

We have had an email from our dear GPDD friend, Mary Ann. Her piggy, Willie, lost his companion, Tate, a while ago and was very lonely as was Mary Ann so she has found them a new friend whose name is Mr.P.S. Beasley.

Below is a photo of Willie. If you have our Undercover Piggy playing cards, he and Tate were in the Indiana short haired group.

Below are two photos of his new friend, Mr.P.S.Beasley.

He is only a babe and has cheered them both up with his fun and popcorning.

Thank you very much for sharing these photos, Mary Ann. We love to see photos of our friends' piggies so if you have any to share, you know where to write.

The postman brought us a parcel!

The postman delivered a parcel for us today.

"Let us see what is inside." says Aoife Piggyfriend. " I can rip this paper open with my sharp teeth." " Where is it from?" asks Carter in between mouthfuls of grass. "The document says that it is from Canada so it must be from Aunty Pat."

The piggies carefully unwrap the goodies inside the box and find this lovely china eggcup. "Fancy this little piggy surviving such a long journey. Aunty Pat wrapped him very well." says Carter.

" Oooh! Look at these piggies," says Saoirse. " The little Dutch piggy is made of porcelain and has a chain attached so that he can be worn or hung up. Let us ask Slave to hang him up in the pig room where we can all see him. I think that Slave would like to put the frilly pig on her shelf with all the other little piggies that we wrote about last week."

Next the piggies find a lovely fabric bag with a pigture of piggies printed on it. Here it is....

Slave says that this will be ideal for holding her needlework. We are not sure if you can read the words so here they are below.

We all agree with that sentiment. Wasn't it kind of Aunty Pat to send us this parcel? It has been travelling the high seas for a very long time and we all thought that it had been lost.

Thank you Aunty Pat!! Hugs from the Piggyfriends.

Happy Valentine's Day!

What does a Slave give the pigs that she loves on Valentine's Day? Do they want flowers? Only if they are edible and there are not many of those around in the winter. Do they eat chocolates? No, those are only for Slaves. How does one make a pig happy on a special day?

Give them grass of course!

Here are Otto and Niamh tucking in. Enjoy sweeties.

The Piggyfriends are lucky to be able to have grass most days in winter but there can never be too much of it and the way to a piggy's heart is through his/her tum.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone and everypig.

Our slave's piggy earrings!

Our slave Mieke also has some decorative piggy pieces. Her latest additions are definitely the coolest. She was looking for some earrings and obviously they had to be guinea pig shaped. Browsing around on Etsy, she found this shop called jewelleryfurkeeps and among her super cute animal earrings, necklaces and bracelets she found a set of piggy earrings. She read in the description they are made to order, so she wondered if this designer would be okay with making a slightly different design. She send a message to the designer and she replied she would be more than happy to make an adjusted design for her. Slave said she'd like one of the earrings like in the original design and one with a piggy standing on hind legs. We think this designer lady had no piggies of her own so slave send her some pigtures of us standing on hind legs for veggies.
Eventually she made one set especially for our slave with one original piggy design and one on hindlegs. Our Cookie was the model for that one.

Look at these awesome earring studs @jewelleryfurkeeps made! I saw the ones in the first picture on Etsy. I read they were made to order, so I wondered if she could make them slightly different. Together we designed the piggy standing on hind legs on the second photo. I send anne, the designer and maker, some pigtures of my guinea pigs on their hind legs begging for treats. Pigture 3 is of Binky on hind legs or even on his toes, stretching out. Anne also made a version of Binky, and they are for sale in her Etsy shop! #earrings #guineapigs

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 And she made some extra based on Binky modeling for them:

I, Binky, was the model for these guinea-pig-standing-on-hind-legs earring studs. Aren't they super cool? Slave thinks they are adorable... And they are for sale in @jewelleryfurkeeps Etsy shop, how cool is that? Any one wants my image in their ears? *Proud boar* Did you see me? @mfug22 @blogparty @surreysqueakers @lobsanglei @paulinehovers

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Slave got a set of the Binkies as well, because then she could mix and match the with the other two earrings, and they weren't that expensive for handmade silver earrings. And how many slaves can say they have eating modeled after her piggies, or other pets for that matter?
She made 8 pairs of Binkies, slave bought one set, right now there are 5 sets left, so there must have been two others buying the 'Binkies'! Which also means there are still 5 pairs of Binkies left to buy for your slave!!!

Our Slave's Tiny Piggy Ornaments

Our dear friends, Eddie and Nugget asked on the GPDD if we could show them some photos of our Slave's collection of tiny piggy ornaments so here goes.

First of all there are these four fat piggies.

They are only one inch high and they came from a wonderful online store called the Winking Cavy. Piggies of all colours and breeds could be ordered and the man who made these could even make a model of one's own piggy from a photo. Sadly this store no longer exists.

Here is another trio of little porkers. The middle one was a gift from our pigsitter and the outer ones came from the Winking Cavy. It was hard to get a good photo of those two as they are made of glass, which reflected too much, They are both the same design but one is opaque and one is clear. The middle one is a little bit bigger than the first four and the glass ones are smaller.

Here are some more. The outer pair are Wade whimsies ( people in England might know of these ) and the one in the middle is from a German zoo set. Slave found him in a garden centre one Christmas.

We love these next ones. They are made of wood and are really tiny. Slave found them at the South of England show, where there were many stalls selling all kinds of goodies. There was a man who made Noah's Arks and hordes of different animals to go with them. Slave was amazed to find these piggies amongst the other animals and bought them all. We know that they should go two by two but she could not leave  any behind.

These are fridge magnets courtesy of the Winking Cavy. The white one does not show up very well but we could not reach the fridge to take them down.

These last ones are not really ornaments but we thought that Eddie and Nugget would like to see them anyway. Our Slave has a doll's house, for which she makes furniture and other items. This house has a garden full of flowers made from paper and Fimo, which is a modelling clay. The garden had to have piggies in it so Slave made this family and their veggies. They have a little pen and a hutch, of which you can just see a bit of the doors.

We hope that you enjoyed seeing these photos Eddie and Nugget. Does any other pig's Slave have little piggies that we could see. Please send us a photo if you can.

Slave does have a tiny silver piggy, which hangs from a chain and she never, ever takes it off so you will have to imagine it.