VinnyGuinea and Raj Mahal

Please press collage for enlargement! Mom in hospital again this week and Vinny, Raj, and the Gang all joining me at Parker's place where he has a big herd of piggies and we get our very own bunny rabbit until mom is able to go home! Mom asked me to tell you all she loves receiving emails if you don't mind that she isn't able to write back until she is stronger. We are all happy with our bunny and love you all, and Raj insisted on showing off him and Vinny hangin' out on their new, Big Plushy Carrot that our very own Fairy sent us!

Fairy, can you tell we love it?!

We love you each and every one! Mom is so grateful for your kind wishes and we'll do our best to keep you

up to date on our new lives for the right-now-unusual moment!!!

Love,
YumYum and my Rowdy Band of PiratePigs (and our little bunny rabbit!)

My Happy Life by VinnyGuineaPig

Welcome to my Happy New Life! This is my sleep
sack, also my Clubhouse, also where Raj told me I have to snatch & scoot to keep Taj from stealing back the food he already stole from Raj...I don't understand but I am so little I don't have to, and maybe I never will! Ha-Ha-Ha, a merry boy am I!

Check out Taj giving me "the eye" HA-HA! Raj said
it's because he hasn't figured out what I am yet! And he also told me that when Taj gives me "that look" I need to shout: "GO GIANTS!" since he won't admit it
publicly, but we think Raj might be a closet Patriots fan. OH! AND TODAY MUM NOTICED FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT I HAVE WHITE FUR,TOO, JUST LIKE RAJ!

I know I told you all this before, but sometimes I just like to be quiet and meditate in my WhEEkGrass on things like "Will I grow up to be a race horse?"

Raj is teaching me GuineaPigYoga! See how his tail feathers and his entire body bend with such grace?
Look how flexible he is! What does "Namaste" mean?

So, now you know everything about me.
I wake up in my sleep sack.
Or Taj's sleep sack.
Or Raj's sleep sack.
Then once everybody hears mom wake up,
We all rush to the bars of our Habitats and
stand on our hind legs WHEEKING! 
like we have never been fed, EVER!
Mom always says, "Let me make my coffee,
you squeaker-wheekers, c'mon! Please?"
But we don't.
Cuz that's just how we roll.
Right now mom is pretty weak so we gave her
a break but not before we had her feed
us breakfast, refill all our fabric hay-troughs,
refill all our food bowls (since I take up
all the room in the Mahals, they have to
eat out of my weensy-bowl!) Ha-Ha!
Then we nap.
Today mom had enough energy to
share my life with you and she is SO EXCITED
she told us I am already receiving fan-mail!
When her migraine goes away she is going
to bring me into her bed all soft and cozy
and read it to me. I feel so special!
(Cuz I am, hee-hee, little me.)


Taj: "Raj, are you going to include your latest
adventure with "mini-you?"


Raj: "No."


Taj: "Guess you don't want anyone to know that  mini-you tried to hump you but he was so little he couldn't even reach his front paws..."


SQUEEEE! SQUEEEEEEEE! SQUEEEEE!

WHAT?

WHAT? Like YOU  don't eat hay?
Oh, Puh-LEASE!

See Vinny Eat

I love sitting in Raj and Taj's food bowl to eat. 

Sometimes Taj wheeks: "Whadda-Whadda-Whadda?"
and it makes me laugh as we stumble and tumble
all over ourselves in a 3-Pig-Feeding Frenzy! Raj
adored me at first sight and is teaching me every-thing he knows while Taj still doesn't know what I am. Our HABITAT is really MUCH BIGGER than it looks in the picture plus we STILL get to go on runabouts and I race like a speeding bullet, turning corners like a short-track Olympic speedskater. I love being me and I love living in my Forever Home with Raj, Taj, and mom. It makes me happier than I ever felt possible!

But sometimes I just like quiet.
To eat out of their bowl, not mine.
My bowl is little, like me.
But theirs has more food to make
me BIG! I'm just a baby boar now,
but watch how fast I grow!
I love you.


(for close-ups, just press my photos, but I am still
going to be little...for now...and the best pics are yet to come!)

SMILE!

Really cute animals! - YouTube

^^^There's even guinea pigs!

Concealed in Darkness, Raj Hatches a PLAN!

My beloved Fairy has been emailing more about Taj being on the magazine cover than about my beautiful, bi-colored lower lip, the stunning coronet atop my head that I wear like a Royal Crown when mom combs it, and my beautiful long, flowing tail-feathers...What would it take to win Fairy back 100% I wonder?

OH! I know, I'll consult with Herd Chieftain YumYum, the Elder! He knows EVERYTHING.

We'll get Taj, and I'll win my Fairy's heart back 200%! Yes, sounds like a plan! Now, to emerge from the shadows into broad daylight whistling like a cavy in a ripe, resplendant, organic vegetable garden...appearing as if nothing is wrong. Yeah, sounds like a plan!

VinnyGuinea: The Littlest PiratePigPrankster There Ever Was!

That Taj! Feeling so hot since he been on the cover
of Guinea Pig Magazine...now that Raj had brought it to my attention that Taj is squeezing in on his romance with Fairy, I must take ACTION! And everybody knows that YumYum is NOTHING if not ACTION!
(heh-heh! and mayhem, and trickery...)
PIRATE PIG EXTRAORDINAIRE, THAT'S ME! 
Action, Chaos, Frightful pranks on uppity herdmates...all with love, mind you, 
all with - mu-AH-ha-HAAAAAH: love! (honest)

Er...what's this in my food bowl? Anybody?
Hello? Uh, it's moving...my food bowl's moving and...


I am not happy!
My Breakfast is ALIVE! WHEEK-WHEEK!
HELP! 

I know my assignment is important...just too small to remember exactly what...I...am supposed to do...
Right-O! To blend into the camoflage of Taj's sleeping tunnel so he never suspects I am here.

Can you see me? No? Perfect! It's easy when you're a wee scamp like me, colored with soft, velvety fur like my Best Friend Raj who looks just like me...I AM SO HAPpy....shhhhh.......can't see me, right? Right? Can't see me, right? Right? This is lonely, though. I need my Raj. Baby-Vinny-Guinea lonely...

Although that was so much fun eating and playing in Taj's food bowl.
Hope my next assignment is even better! I like it here very, very, very much! 
(Cuz these is some CrAzY *** PigZ!) You didn't hear that. You don't even
see me. Crazy *** PigZ, hee-hee...

Raj takes me, VinnyGuinea, to the herd Chief, Commander of our Pirate Ship "MAYHEM" to receive my first real orders, so Raj comes along since 
I am his Mini-Raj and this was His and YumYum's Idea to begin with...we convene a "Joint Session of NONSENSE" guaranteed not to serve EVEN ONE
of our constituents. SQUEEEEE! I so love politics!

WHAT HAPPENED? One minute all fame and
fortune and even - kinda - had Fairy's attention.
Now things are different & I don't understand.
Something keep'n me awake at night, racing through my tunnel here, hoppin' & poppin' with glee

as I try getting my beauty sleep... And what on EARTH is that thing I found this morning moving about, munching & crunching in my breakfast FOOD BOWL!? Holy Owl-Hork!

i miss fame.
fleeting, fickle, fame.


(Raj, YumYum, & VinnyGuinea giggle together...
Quietly. Very, very quietly.)


p.s. TO SEE PICTURES FULL SIZE SIMPLY CLICK ONE! VINNY IS TOO CUTE TO BE LEGAL! (as if any of us are legal...hee-hee)

RAJ'S "MINI-ME" CRASHES SUPERBOWL TAILGATE PARTY!

We've been getting the place ready...
GO GIANTS! GO LITTLE PIG!

Super-Bowl just over a WHEEK! away...
AND MOM BROKE THE COMPUTER SO WE ARE KEEPING HER IN BED...WAS LUCKY TO GET IN THIS POST OF...
MINI-ME!!!! (Who conveniently fits quite
nicely in the palm of her hand, snuggles her to sleep, puts his front feet on top of her hand to sniff the wind, and lets her pet him until they are both so calm you can here a Baby-Wheek snoring.)
YOU DID NOT SEE THIS. GOOD NIGHT.
(his name is VinnyGuinea but you didn't see that either, or the part about him looking like me, following me everywhere, imitating everything I do, playing hide and seek, popcorning, and scooting like a streak of lightning through our tunnels whilst we nap: he driving Taj crazy wanting to cuddle with the famous Cover Boy...ALL THE TIME! (hee-hee, got ya Taj, got ya GOOD, DIDN'T I?)
love,
Raj
WE WERE NOT HERE.
YOU DID NOT SEE THIS.

SEE YA IN MINNEAPOLIS! oops - meant INDIANAPOLIS!

PRESS COLLAGE ^^^ FOR UP-CLOSE-AND-PERSONAL RIVALRY OF THE PIGULAS!
WHEEK! WHEEK! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE GIANTS!

Guinea Pigs Cause Massive Solar Flare

Solar flare could briefly disrupt communications

Oops, think we rowed in the wrong direction...

If your computers go down tomorrow, at least

take a look of this spectacular picture of WHY

before your jaw drops in awe at our Cosmic Powers!

THIS IS SOME SERIOUSLY COOL STUFF!

And "YES WE DID!" but it's a secret only

we can share...let the scientists argue all they

want, once we learned to "row" and generate

power, we began to recognize the massive

potential for MAYHEM and so...

Let the Games Begin and:

GO GIANTS! WHEEEK!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

WHY MOM GOES TO INDIA

We realize you can't really see the faces or names of some of our new friends (mom in orange cap second from bottom row) in India, but when mom is stuck (and we really mean STUCK-STUCK in bed) and needs to remember that instead of falling into a depressive state of hopeless despair (i.e. needing hugs and lap time and affection from every single one of us > NOT A LOW MAINTENANCE MOM, SEE?) we encourage her to visit a site, called The Speaking Tree, where other, like-minded seeking souls are asking questions like:

*Why am I here?
*What is the purpose of life?
*Why do good people suffer? (laughing: that's her BIG favorite...oh, HELP US, we're gonna pee! Why mom suffer > She so good? OH NOW WE IS REALLY GONNA PEE, WAAAAH, CAN'T STOP GIGGLING! SOMEBODY help us!)
*Why is Oprah in India? (huh? apparently she is, as someone - oh, right, Deepak Chopra, wrote a blog interviewing her)
*Why am I on the same site as Oprah (now we are all getting lost) "MOM, TAKE YOUR MEDICINE, EAT, ST!AY HYDRATED, IS YOUR HEART MONITOR TURNED ON? HEY, GO TO BED! IT'S WAY  PAST BEDTIME!

Anyway, here are some of her friends, we don't know everyone here, but those we do know we enjoy very, very much... and have actually learned much from!
Some are serious.
Some are fun and funny.
All seem quite sensitive.
Some are young, modern, and challenging cultural traditions.
Some are traditional but understand the questions and even offer answers.
Some are quite mischievous - but you always know that once they switch from English to Hindi, mom's in BIG TROUBLE! QUITE A LOT OF TEASING GOES ON IN SEARCH FOR LIFE'S BIG ANSWERS! ELSE A SEEKER COULD GO QUITE MAD! (not anyone we know or live with, of course, just anonymous people could go mad, anonymous people we don't know and never will meet.)

No one believes mom's a girl. No make-up. No sari. Not noticeably "fem."

Many have offered a dizzying, dazzling array of "what Chana means in Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Sanskrit, and in cooking and military language"...(seriously, WHO KNEW?) but at least this past week while we enjoyed having "company" dismantle the apartment and life as we once knew it, mom had a place to go and friends to be with whom to discuss the T.V. Show "Lost" so she announced the new show by J.J. Abrams called "Alcatraz" which promises to be less confusing...please don't make us pee because we laugh too hard, it's not dignified.
Indeed, mom has contributed profound wisdom here...dispensing "knowledge of the ages" selflessly, such as what night "Alcatraz" debuts, info on the cast (one was on "Lost") and things that  answer THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS...
Do you readers know what the expression "Epic FAIL" means? You need to!

Mom, we know you  really, really miss Calvin and so do we... but MUST we spend THIS MUCH TIME comforting you when we all know LIFE IS REALLY ALL ABOUT US, WHAT YOU NEED TO GO TO INDIA FOR? WHEEK and DOUBLE - SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE (what say ye NOW Oprah?)
MOM, WOULD YOU LIKE A NEW, BABY GUINEA PIG TO CUDDLE?

Uh-Oh! See, now THAT question: even THINKING IT > EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF A DESPERATE GUINEA PIG'S

EPIC FAIL!
RUN! YOU NEVER SAW THIS, WE WERE NEVER HERE AND IF YOU TELL ON US WE MAY NEVER BE BACK! LOVE YOU, GOOD BYE, BEHAVE, WOMBAT, WE'RE IN FOR IT NOW!

TAJ UNPHASED BY INTERNATIONAL STARDOM!

Thanks to his humble, quiet nature (epic description FAIL!) our very own Taj Mahal demonstrates that he remains the same now as he always was...unphased and unchanged by his sudden rise to International SuperStardom, content to steal his brother Raj's fresh treats, stash 'em, and do it all over again. We love you, Taj, congratulations!

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE RICK PERRY DROPS OUT OF RACE FOLLOWING PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF HIS DISLIKE FOR GUINEA PIGS

Rick Perry drops out of

Republican bid for

Presidential Nomination

following reports

he loves all

animals except

guinea pigs.

Rick, can't say we didn't

warn you...just that you

Texans only listen

to Big things...

And now, YOU DROPPING OUT

IS THE BIG THING.

Tsk. Tsk. Maybe next time

before you go trying to

throw us off the Noah's ARK

of your love...you think

twice about it, eh, cowpie?

"The downfall is in

the details."

REPUBLICANS: WATCH YOUR BACK!

Read on to see how Republicans REALLY FEEL ABOUT GUINEA PIGS and why they must be defeated in the Super Bowl, preferably by the New York Giants!
CONFOOZLED? READ ON, my friends, read on!

Primary Collars: Pets Get Political: Pet News

Texas Governor Rick Perry states FOR THE RECORD

that although he "loves all animals" he has conceded that he

is "not so partial to guinea pigs." (Paragraph #4, can't miss it!)

Excuse YOU?! We are voting for someone who IS not only
partial to us, but will make us the first FIRST GUINEA PIGS
in PRESIDENTIAL White House pet history, so take that,
Texas Governor Rick Perry, how dare you single us out like that?

We are deeply VEXED!

Our votes now hang on chads, Rick, so mind yourself!

For INGRID...To Summer...in Seattle

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^^^FOR INGRID, with love...memories of Summer^^^tap above, please...
THEN SCROLL DOWN BELOW COSMO CAT AND PRESS PLAY-BUTTON! then wait...and wait...we have waited years...YEARS!

Yes, we HAVE
posted this before...but while enjoying our Arctic-Snow-Freeze
NORTH OF SEATTLE, we wanted to share memories of...our NOT-SUMMERs?

FOR INGRID: Gratitude for the "Snow Poem" you gifted our Comments Section...

Just nuts? A painting squirrel

Just nuts? A painting squirrel

EVERYBODY's an artist! Winkleheimer!

SPEAKING TREE picks mom today

(IF you find it, her blog where blue arrow is, above-left,
and good luck with that!)

Introducing SPEAKING TREE, the place we send mom when
she "wants to talk" and we want to eat, play, popcorn,
chew our cardboard boxes, play chase, steal one another's
food, toss hay-bales, and have FUN!

We send her to a place far, far away so while
she thinks she is here with us,
(OH STOP IT, YOU WOULD, TOO,
ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIVED WITH HER)
in reality we hath banished her half-way
across the world for them to deal with!

SANCTIMONIOUS REBUKES ADDRESSED TO US
WILL NOT BE OPENED, READ, OR ANSWERED.
WE HAVE A NEW CAVIARY AND ARE WAITING
FOR OUR NEW COPY OF GUINEA PIG MAGAZINE
AND CocoNutPie said (with no small amount
of uncharacteristic sarcasm...)

"Just tell them we're waiting
for our tails to grow in!"

OH NO SHE IS-N'T!

WHEEEK! SNOW! LOTS & LOTS & LOTS & LOTS...NOT TO MENTION impending windstorm with gusts from 60 - 80 mph and windchill ALREADY 5 degrees BELOW ZERO, AIN'T NOTHIN' mom loves MORE than an exciting POST-OP SNOWSHOEING
ADVENTURE! SQUEEEEEEEEEEE! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! Who let her out?!

On the flip side, may as well get used to the cold in case arctic windstorm knocks out our power >

GO MAMA!

(not really. photograph by John Lok of The Seattle Times...mom in bed where she belongs.)

BUT EDWIN MADE US A NEW CAVIARY IN LIVING ROOM, WAY COOL cuz even he can't get back go Seattle: too much snow, wind, ice and he would become stranded at Seattle train station downtown unable to get back home. Our 2 Kitties cozy as kittens at their favorite vet, boarding down the street from Edwin's apartment where they get lots and lots of love as vet tech who spoils them lives only 2 blocks away so can walk there. Chai and Sami actually safer there than anywhere during this epic storm...sooooo,  Edwin is still here...goin' with mom to cardiologist to make sure she don't pull off her heart monitor and "accidentally" flush it down the toilet since it's a pain-in-the-# to wear for a month...
But waaaaay TOO COLD to leave apartment today, just gaze longingly out the window dreaming of Urban Arctic Adventures in and around the Downtown Corridors of Mt. Bellingham...
There was one Michelin Man siting: walking his dog outside...brrrrrr......EVEN THE CAFES ARE CLOSED! THE TOWN IS CLOSED!

IF YOU REALLY LOVE US SEND COFFEE! WE GOT OUR FRESH FOOD, HAY, AND SUPPLIES BUT MUM AND EDWIN, WELL...
WE SAY: PLAY-TIME, WAKE UP AND LET US OUT AND WATCH US PLAY AND FEED US AND LET'S GET THIS PIGGIE PARTAY STARTED AS WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED OUR MAGAZINE BUT ONCE WE DO TAJ GONNA GO AFTER THE FICKLE LITTLE FAIRY PIGGIE...SO THIS MAY BE OUR LAST CHANCE FOR FRATERNAL FESTIVITIES BEFORE THE WOOING GETS...WELL...
(to be continued after magazine arrives...and it may not be pretty, not pretty.)

UH-OH! EPISODE 1 of "As The Cavy Sleeps"

Raj sleeps with his eyes open, dreaming of his Fairy Princess, while before his sleeping eyes...

Taj is comparing the pinkness of his tongue with the pinkness of Fairy's tongue...
What will happen when Raj wakes up?
TO BE CONTINUED...STAY TUNED!

{Photo of Fairy by Fairy's mum, used with(out) permission, as usual...}

Fairy, Is There Room For...

Dear Fairy,

It's your very own true love, Raj, here...tonight we have a poorly mum and a blizzard, too, and it's cold and we were wondering, Fairy...Oh, and we have our Mr. Mouse, too...but, would you maybe have room for one more, that would be mum...and then room for one more, that would be me, of course...then maybe have room for CocoNutPie (you could trade beauty secrets!) and MacNutPie...and, oh well, TAJ MAHAL, of course, he of international Guinea Pig Magazine Cover Pin-Up fame...and, YumYum...hmmm, we might need to put him with your miceys...have I forgotten anybody? Well, see, they told mum when she got out of the hospital to "take it easy" and we are POSITIVE she was! Seriously, quiet as Mr. Mouse and in bed resting...most of the time, Honest!

Now, maybeeeeeee, well,  not QUITE ENOUGH...so, what I am trying to ask is, is...Fairy, could we ALL CRAWL IN THERE WITH YOU TONIGHT? We're cold and still miss Calvin and Mariella, you know how it is to have "one of those days" well, it's turning into "many of those days - and nights, too!" so, um, would you have room for...us...ALL in there with you and your miceys? Thank you for your kind, gracious consideration, Fairy.

We would bring our own snickety-snackety baskets to share!?

{Sweet Beautiful Photo of Fairy courtesy of her mum or dad? Not sure since we swiped it...oopsie!}

MOM HOME? WHERE SHE?

Dear Friends,

From every one of us at Panda Pig's Peace Sanctuary, thank you for your love, prayers, kind wishes, and wrapping us up in the nooks and crannies of your generous hearts to comfort us through one heck of a New Year! Mom is now home and Edwin is helping us make her behave and we have only hearts full of gratitude for so many wonderful, amazing, crazy-awesome friends willing to be the Wind Beneath our Ear-Flaps...thank you: We love you, each and every one... for although we have lost our precious Calvin, we still have our Mom. And it took miracles and we received miracles. We love living and we love loving and we love YOU!

YOURS,

MacNutPie, CocoNutPie, YumYum, Raj and the infamous, internationally famous Taj Mahal

WHO'S YOUR DADDY?

Taj Mahal strikes it BIG on the cover of the next international Guinea Pig Magazine! Demands more food, scritchy-scratches,

and to be praised continually for his amazing tongue...has already retained an agent in Hollywood to tell his life story in indie film biopic showing him eat, sleep, play chase with Raj, popcorn, wheek, and shamelessly snitch food from his brother, EVEN moving his Extra-Large Pigloo

(with its heavy, ceramic food bowl, wooden chew toy, mini-hay-bale, and other accoutrements) over to his bright, new orange fabric hay trough, so instead of eating out of the holes at the bottom like the commoners, he leaps atop his tall pigloo, shoving front paws and snout into the open top,  pigging out head-first! Guess that qualifies him for Cover Pig: He outsmarted Jen, the trough designer, passing on her well-planned design to HAVE IT HIS WAY... Imagine that swirly-chocolate head and bright pink tongue plunging into as much hay as he can eat and you have this month's dashingly handsome, humble Cover Pig!

(Houston, we may have a problem.)

A wonderful problem that brings much needed joy at this time.

Not to rain on his parade...but we discovered that THREE OTHER GIRL PIGGIES, ONE FROM EACH SISTER SANCTUARY passed away last week after Calvin, a total of four piggies the first week of the year. Apparently, Calvin now has his own harem to teach him how to popcorn and run and do all the things he never could do in his boneless body...We extend our deepest sympathy and condolences to Fairy, Ingrid, and Jen of Jen's Custom Crafts. We have never experienced so much loss in such a short time and each from a sanctuary or family with whom we feel dearly close.

So we shall rejoice with Taj as we also give thanks to all the girls who are watching over Calvin in heaven and teaching him how much fun a piggie can have once free of suffering.

We also wish to thank each and every one of our friends from America, England, and India for the support and love we have received during this difficult time...

Taj is now on the phone with his "agent" - oops, apparently he now has an iPAD and is ordering custom Robin Hood apparel for himself and the herd, having pulled a credit card out of nowhere...this is definitely gonna get interesting!

P.S. Although the magazine contents are not available online, he is also featured with his very own interview inside while MacNutPie sports his personal collection of products through the magazine store...dem pigs done gone HOG WILD!