The new hideout

"What is that smell? FOOD!" -Honey

The hideout that everybody has been waiting for!

Feed me

Today was a great day, they got a nice 2 veggie course with celery and carrot: two of their favorites. 

Honey believes you must run away with your food. The fastest I've ever seen Honey run was to get away with a large piece of pepper that she didn't feel like sharing with Rocky. Honey has taken a whole stalk of celery and tried to take it into a pigloo, unfortunately, it didn't fit too well.

Slow Motion Chewing

Today just felt like it went by in slow motion, didn't it? While Honey wasn't too upset by that because, hey, the food lasts longer if you eat it slowly! This was the highlight of their day.

Home Wheek Home

We like Piggy Pouches, they mean treats!

      Whee Piggies are home from our stay with the lovely Claire. She is our favorite piggy friend! While we were gone, the cavy slaves had an idea!

The voyage!

Today we embarked on a journey without our cavy slaves to stay with one of our best friends, Claire. Whee get to stay in the same enclosure and she is one of our best friends. Claire's cavy slave is a vet tech for dogs but fell in love with a guinea pig, but we will tell that story another time. Claire shares a room with a bunny who smell weird. Anyway, here is our travel carrier! 

So long, 

Your Piggy friends!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well I decided better late than never! We peegs are thankful for abundant grass, arugula and Tuscan kale. We had a bountiful feast earlier in the day, but the cavy slaves were very busy with guests. Unfortunately we didn't get very much attention but oh the joy, we got lots of food and then took naps all afternoon. Have a good veggie day or in your case turkey day. Happy Thanksgiving!

The peegs,

Rocky and Honey

Got Vitamin C?

One of the most common things for guinea pig owners not to know is how important vitamin C really is. Guinea pigs require quite a lot of it, and there is no limit to how much they have. The first thing that passed into our minds was ORANGES! The problem with oranges is that they have too much sugar for it to be good for them. They can have 1-2 pieces of a mandarin oranges every 4 days. Otherwise, they can easily upset piggies stomach.  Options are everywhere for getting vitamin C for your guinea pigs. One thing out there is Daily C which are tablets that can be fed by crushing over wet greens, mixed with water and fed through a syringe, or apparently some guinea pigs will just eat the pill. Not our piggies! We cannot find a way to give it to our guinea pigs where they will eat it.

We gave them arugula (wetted) and sprinkled this over the top and they won't eat it. But apparently some pigs love the taste, maybe yours will? Another idea of how to give it to them is to put it in their water but there are 2 problems with that:

1. You don't know how much vitamin C each piggy is getting.

2. If a piggy really objects to the taste, they may stop drinking water which can lead to dehydration, or more severely, death.

Please make sure that your piggies are receiving vitamin C, here is a list of food for guinea pigs that are high in vitamin C.