Sun? Did Ingrid mention the SUN? Who has the SUN?

 

Thank you so much, Ingrid, for sending us
this beautiful portrait of Sammy, your
he-cat basking cozily in the sun's luscious
glow! We have a she-cat named Sami and
know how much she misses lying in the sun,
too...it still feels like winter here so you have
really cheered us up and given us HOPE!
Love,
Piggies Deluxe Edition

WHERE TO SLEEP TONIGHT?

 

 

 

 

Dear Mom, your bed doesn't look so inviting after
all that "organizing" you halfway did today, so why not 
sleep with me, your VinnyGuinea? You can have 
my personal, little sleep-box or pretty green sleep
tunnel, I am very generous and it would be a privilege 
to have you sleep with me, Mom, really!


Thank you so much, VinnyGuinea, you and YumYum have
both been soooo sweet inviting me, but Bhindi here is already
getting tucked in for the night on his new zebra-striped tunnel
so I think we're going to spend the night in that as long as he 
stops mistaking my short hair for whEEkgrass.
Which could keep me...awAKE! ACK!
Sweet Dreams, World, from the
Organized Piggeries of the Americas
(P.S. As a reward for being "organized" Mom did receive a commission today to make a Mother's Day bookmark for of her artist friends' mom and she's real excited! It was originally just a scribble she had done on scratch paper...)
Nighty-night...we love you.

A WINTER'S STORM ON A SPRING DAY

VINNI-Guinea has Top Secret Information! 

 

Yes, it's TRUE: WINTER HATH RETURNED!

 

But this is not the news.

 

Even Bhindi weighs in and he is usually multi-lateral in his political diplomacy, but this

is SHLOCK & AWE!

Vinny explains: See, Mom got sick of us having the whole house and her having nothing, not really, what she really said is how hard it is to get her art "organized" while half is taking up her ENTIRE bedroom and the other half is in here where (FINDER'S KEEPERS, PIGGIE-EATERS!) SO...

Seeing as how it was supposed to be sunny

and pretty but now we're getting a winter

storm she decided to single-handedly move

ALL THE ART STUFF THAT HAS BEEN

in her bedroom in here with us (where we can

find it and eat it easier: SNAP! SNAP!)

SHE PUT ON Happy-Dance MUSIC,

THE SOUNDTRACK FROM "SHREK"

(which ought to tell you right off that this

ain't gonna turn out good...) then tied on

one of those back brace things for people who

lift heavy things...and you know how on that

T.V. Show "Extreme Home Makeover"

they say "MOVE THAT BUS!"

Well, she got tired in the middle of 

MOVIN' DAT BUS: oopsie-doodle,

did NOT see THAT COMING!

(Ha-WAAAAaaaaaHaHaHahhhhhh!)

 She got her bedroom back. Can't find her bed. 

Real organized for Art Friday, too!

(hee-hee, we can't stop laughing!!! and

we still have the same amount of room

IF YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT!)

MOM SAYS THE LAWS OF

PHYSICS have not befriended her

SHE TAKES THIS PERSONALLY!

And no photographers were allowed.

(Compliments of Rupert Murdoch, Bad Guys, Inc.)

Yup, looks cozy-comfy if we do say so ourselves! 

PLEASE LOOK OVER TO "SARCASTIC GRANNY'S" BLOG POST

 

PLEASE look to the top of "Blogs We Follow"
because "Sarcastic Granny" is wonderful always
but tonight she took our breath away and we 
piggies normally don't get along, but after meeting
Leontien we all wanted to be together...well, next
to YumYum's cage because what Ms. A wrote
it is so touching and poignant, courageous and...
would someone please hand us a tissue?
(Not for me, it's for Vinny. I have my Cuddle Tunnel...)
~

Dem Crazy Pigs!

 

Dem Crazy Pigs! Now all of us can actually
reach up on our tippy toes all the way to the
very tops of our habitat cage tops 'cept they
don't HAVE TOPS so whaddya think happened
tonight? Bhindi never had organic, sweet mini-
watermelon before and grabbed it outta mom's 
hand so fast it actually fell down OUTSIDE HIS
CAGE! Even lil'Vinny's a long stretch on a Sunday
afternoon! Or Saturday, you know we don't care...
Anyway, WE GOT WATERMELON and
unless mom thinks we're at risk for dropping ourselves
into someone else's cage she's not ordering cage-tops
and we love it that way cuz she can always reach down
and scritchy-scratch us even wid a migraine!
Cuz then we is her THERAPY PIGz!
LOVE YOU, EVERYBODY...
see ya's goons soon enough, y'all behave now.
Cuz we ain't gonna!

MISSING YUM-YUM...

 

Vinny has grown up into a fine little baby piggie.
What we mean is, he hasn't. Grown up, that is.
Even on Runabout, he misses living with YumYum.
And he will just lie on his thick, fleecy-soft green leaf
staring at YumYum through the bars wishing YumYum
would take him back again.
Which, of course, he won't.
Because when Vinny is not being this endearing,
he is either stealing hay that pokes out of the bars
of YumYum's habitat, but more often juts his wee
pointy nose into Yummy's cage until Yum comes
to snap it off, teeth chattering, lunging, until at
the very last second, Vinny pulls his nose out, 
taunts YumYum with "I'm the one out and 
YOU'RE THE ONE STILL IN!" before
running away giggling, popcorning, and 
jumping over cuddle cups, scrunched up
fleece, and everything the piggies have 
done to make their Runabout more
FUNABOUT!
Vinny, YumYum is just not that into you!
~
P.S. We are entertaining jolly Mr. Migraine
this week, so you may not hear from
us due to excessive whining from the Peanut Gallery 
but we will return your emails eventually & 
you also know we can't post comments even on HERE
since Mr. Migraine Medicine (clearly working 
wonders!) makes us look at everyone's Comments Box
IN WONDER!
Tra-La-La-Da-Dee-Da!
~

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY! (in our dreams...tra-la-la!)

 

Not so long ago, three little piggies lived
happily not only side by side but EVEN
ALL TOGETHER IN ONE HABITAT:
eating, sleeping, playing, and going off
on RUNABOUT Adventures (mischievously!)
to the faraway LAND OF WHEEKGRASS.
They were little and didn't know about
"growing up" when you don't all get along for one 
reason or another, which we will mercifully leave to your imagination...
BoyPigs grew into ManPigs (except lil'Vinni-Guinea who 
actually didn't ever grow longer, just fuller, yet can speed 
across the floor jumping over this & that soft toy faster 
than a a bolt of lightning, his lil' Dumbo ears a-bouncing!)

 ^^^^CHECK THIS OUT!

SQUEEEEEEEEEE!^^^
Just when you think there's no hope for a garden
thick, green and luscious enough to bring the boysies
back together again, HERE COMES HELP FROM
OUR ALLIES ACROSS THE POND!
OH MY>>>Is that really Fairy's Dad, Ian, with his
bright red Wheatgrass Tractor coming to our rescue?
We do believe he/it is/are!
WELL, cheers upon cheers, Fairy, for you and your
sister Marigold and your mum and dad for helping us
plant the biggest, bestest, greenest, whEEkgrass garden
just in time for spring with Hope, that magical ingredient
that even boys who run with bowling balls attached to
their arses can all get together again and go 'round
the WhEEkgrass being best o'pals!
THANK YOU FAMILY OF FAIRY
FOR SPRING MAGIC 
AND BRIGHT
RED
TRACTORS
WITH 
DAPPER HATS
A NOD
AND A WAVE,
THEN OFF HE GOES, 
IAN DOES,
TO FARM A PEACE GARDEN
IN THE LOVELY LAND
OF APPLEBY!

ABOUT COMMENTS ON THE BLOG...

 

Dear Friends and Loved Ones, 
See me just staring into my hay bin?
I am looking for a way to tell you 
that as much as we adore the comments
you leave on our blog and as much as we
desperately want to leave comments on
yours mom is at a loss how to do it.
She blames the new GOOGLE.
Of course.
THAT'S WHAT IT IS.
So, Please do not think we don't
appreciate hearing from you.
WE DO!
And don't think we don't want
 leave comments in your blog boxes.
WE DO!
It's just.
Well, you know!
Right now mom's got a pretty 
righteous migraine going so please
leave as many emails and comments
as you want, knowing it just may take
a bit for us to get back to you.
THANK YOU!!!

LUCKY BOY!

 

Dandy's brother from the shelter, adorable
Lucky, has found himself one lucky home!
Ingrid picked him up yesterday and he is
now soothing hearts of grieving meeris 
(guinea pigs) along with Ingrid and Helmut
and we think Lucky is as lucky to have
7 girls and such a great mom and dad
as they are to have him! 

WE JUST LOST OUR PRECIOUS DANDY of BAVARIA...

 

Dandy had only just come into the Bavarian herd
to cheer the 7 grieving girls who were inconsolable
following the loss of Meeri-Boy and Ingrid, Helmut,
and the herd adored him.
He passed away last night in Ingrid's arms.
We are speechless, having so recently experienced
the Heavy Weight Almighty of loss upon loss...at the
moment are in shock for you, grieving for you...
And only wish we could be there in person to hold you all.
Please know how much all of us love you...
Dandy is with Meeri-Boy now.
Our Love Belongs to You, Ingrid, Helmut, and the Girls,
All Herds, All Hearts, All With You Now
~~~~~~

Guinea pigs carrying off and eating cucumber - YouTube

Guinea pigs carrying off and eating cucumber - YouTube

YUP! Don't wanna be the littlest pig when the
cukes come out, fo'sho!

THE "SCURRY"

 

BHINDI loves, loves, loves being scritch-scratched
right here, with his head in his bright orange tunnel!
He'll popcorn so hard that he rolls over, grabs mom's
finger with that back foot, and inch his way until she's
got just the right spot! They play this game all day
if she's Horizontal and not gaining Altitude because
well, ain't much else to do but make a big, swirly,
shark-tail the happiest pig he can be!
It's a good life, a good world, especially if you're
Bhindi, like me!

"Hallelujah" by Rufus Wainwright (Irish performance) - YouTube

"Hallelujah" by Rufus Wainwright (Irish performance) - YouTube

Just because we love him, this song, and this is his Irish version.
Soulful. Just a break in the clouds that came back. Spring for us
inside. We know you'll understand.

"Bhindi, Can We Talk?"

 

Bhindi, I know you think I'm just a snitty little
upstart who jumps by on Runabout to stick my
runty long nose into your cage to brag about me
being on Runabout and you NOT being on
Runabout and that you really wanna just snap my
nose cuz you start chattering your teeth and I start
chattering MY little teeth and we lunge at each
other between the bars and...WAIT!
THAT'S NOT WHY I'M HERE...off topic! off topic!
It's YumYum, Bhindi, he has gotten SO FULL o'himself
with the Pashmina that the next few posts are all of
HIM just because he's still the editor, but we're going
to lose readers, I'm deeply concerned about our
circulation going down, you know how the business
is these days, for journalism and social networking
media and now he has gone and decreed himself
- oh, I'm not EVEN going to repeat it because HE
says it a-plenty himself - BUT Bhindi, can we put
aside our differences long enough to regroup and
figure out how to save our blog from YumYum's
GREAT BIG SPLAT o'the EGO?
Bhindi: "Boy, I gonna snap that nose off, you come
round shovin' it in between the bars o'my cage like
this one more time! GOT THAT, RUNT?"


And, with that, VinniValliGuinea was off running and
jumping over his cuddle cups and all things fun and
frolic-full that he loves so about his Runabouts leaving
the fate of our blog to...well...just fast forward.
It's easier.
~

I AM NOTHING IF NOT EFFUSIVELY HUMBLE!

 

Guess that about sez it all, huh!

Dandy Brings New Hope to Spring in Bavaria!

 

Oh DANDY, you beautiful meeri, you!
Make us just want to pet you and hear you
purrrrrr and watch you popcorn amidst 
the harem seven!
Now we know how you bring so much
happiness to them and us: you are DandyLicious!
~~~
Darling boy, how you could ever have ended
up in a shelter...We guess it was just a stop
along the way to your FOREVER HOME.
love you all, dears,
the Pirates of Pashmina!

KING OF THE PASH-PIGS!

 

Oooooh...even King o' the PashPigs 
needs to make a tinkle while sunning 
himself, knowing mom won't mind
if it dries before she -
(UH-OH!)

YUM-YUM'S NEW DISCOVERY: SILK PASHMINA

 

Silk Pashmina, mom's meditation shawl.
How could I not have known about this?

 

Oooh, baby, BABY! Gimme that Sun
and Bring On Your Very-Best LOVE!

 

This is PERFECT: I'm a PashPig now!

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY!

 

HOW CAN WE THANK YOU, INGRID,
HELMUT, AND DANDY FOR YOUR
FRIENDSHIP?
TOTALLY UNEXPECTED...
HOW DO WE TELL YUM-YUM THAT
SQUEALING "YUM-YUM!
BAVARIAN TRUFFLES ARE NOT FOR YOU?!"
It's not that easy...
then again...
not THAT HARD, either, after the first bite!
Today a package came,
full of spring,
full of hope from a herd recently bereaved,
Now blessed with Dandy and Dandy has
such a BIG HEART...
and we have something on the wall to
remind us of friendship long after the 
Bavarian truffles are gone...
(don't ask HOW LONG...
let's just say, not very!)


Friendship...
~
Thank you: we are so deeply touched...
after all you have been through, losing
Meeri-Boy, discovering Dandy,
you still thought of us...
You never lost your sweetness -
We are at a loss for words,
how about Thank You with
hugs, lots of hugs
and scritchy-scratches for
Dandy, so adorable,
so dear!
And now so near...
~

'TIS SPRING & DANDELIONS ARE SPRINGING UP EVERYWHERE!

Meet "Dandelion!"

 

"King of his very own Harem" in beautiful,
budding, spring in Bavaria, Germany!
 

~SQUEEEEEEEE! HAPPY PIGS!~

 

Dandelion, WELCOME TO THE
INTERNATIONAL HERD of
Guinea Pigs of the Americas
Cavies of the British Isles
and Meeris of the Bavarian Alps!
(And Fiona of America!)
We LOVE your "HOME set-up"
and can tell you right now that with
your "harem" and Auntie Ingrid and 
Uncle Helmut (what with being from
the Shelter and who knows what before
that?) you are finally Home and...ya know...
HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS!
GUESS WHO LOVES YOU?
ALL OF US!!!!!!

FIONA! OMG, WE ARE SOOOOO IN LOVE!

 

Remember a few posts back we featured all our
cuddle cups, huts, tunnels, and cool stuff? 
They are all made by Jen of Jen's Custom Crafts, who also has a little habit of stuffing wonderful
piggie surprises in the orders for our Sanctuary 
and many of you have asked about our colorful
assortment of lovelies...so meet Jen's daughter!
Holding FIONA, their baby pot-bellied pig just
adopted from a rescue, and she is so in love with
their daughter and looks mutual and Fiona follows
them around making soft snuffling sounds...
But guess what else is special? "Shrek" is one of
mom's favorite movies and she has the CD for her
HAPPY-DANCE-MUSIC and when people give
her a hard time she confesses that she can't help it
because...(long pause)..."I'm an ogre," she says!


SO, IF JEN AND HER DAUGHTER AND FIONA
HAVE NO OBJECTIONS, WE WOULD LIKE TO WARMLY WELCOME THEM INTO OUR
HERD AS FIONA IS A PIGGIE, AFTER ALL,
and mom wants one now, too, really bad, so we
invite Jen to please keep the pictures coming so
we can post them for all to enjoy Fiona growing up
with her new, loving family!


FIONA, WELCOME TO THE HERD!


love,
(and I think we speak on behalf of all of us)
~
PandasPigSanctuary, Washington, U.S.A.
~
Fairy & Marigold cavies in lovely 
Appleby, U.K.
~
Dandy and his harem of 7 meeris in Bavaria,
Germany with respect and love to Meeri-boy having just passed days ago...the girls got too sad
and needed a friend to help them grieve just as
we did here...and Dandy comes from a Rescue...
~
The herd of two girls who live here in our apartment complex with two precious children
~
Everyone who loves animals and people
EVERYWHERE!


FIONA, YOU ARE ONE ROCKIN' PIGLET!