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!

HOW WE ALL FEEL

MAC-NUT-PIE: GRIEF IS PERSONAL.
NOT READY TO COME OUT YET.
WE ARE TAKING A TIME OUT.
WE ARE GOING OFFLINE
TO SPEND TIME
TOGETHER
WITH ONE ANOTHER.
WE LOVE YOU ALL.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL US.
WE NEED SOME TIME...KNOW YOU UNDERSTAND.

MARIELLA & CALVIN

FAREWELL, MARIELLA...JANUARY 6, 2012

Meet Mariella, one of Fairy's 2 big sisters, having fun in a snuggly turtle!

Fairy brought so much love and light into Mariella's life...and Mariella
loved Fairy and brought so much love and light into Fairy's life...just
look at her under her terrapin, all warm and cozy!

Mariella made her mum and dad laugh, too!


Today we received word she had a problem with her jaw...
that she had gone to their vet in England.
Calvin's visit to the vet was for a problem with his jaw...
He went to our vet here in Bellingham.


Tonight we noticed a tiny email...
We hadn't seen it, it was so tiny, to be kind to us in our grief.


You see, Mariella passed away - unexpectedly- today.


We hope she and Calvin are happy together
making everyone in Heaven as happy as they both made all of us.


Our deepest sympathy...for Fairy, Marigold, and especially
Fairy's mum and dad.
Please include us all as One in your kind prayers for Calvin.
As we are all one Family who have just
lost two of our precious babies suddenly
within days of one another.

Our heads are bowed in prayer and shock.
Words fail us.

And The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

                                       Farewell, our Beloved, Calvin the small,

                                                         January 2, 2011.

 You will be forever loved, forever missed, forever cherished,  forever kissed.                                                                                                                                                                                  

 For all you endured we never once heard a complaint, nor were we aware of the pain and suffering you silently endured while smiling at us through those shiny, yearning-to-love-and-be-loved eyes...How blessed were we by your love! Fly free, little dove, without the weight  and heaviness of a disintegrating body, fly free, little dove.  For, one day, we shall all fly together to that Timeless, Eternal Place where only Love dwells. You were already There before you left this world...so fly, little dove, and smile down at us, comforting us in our grief.
Who will tuck mom in now?

Tale of Broken Hearts

It was the best of days...(no, scratch that.)

It was the worst of days...it was...a Windstorm Unexpected that broke too many hearts.

Calvin's bones have decalcified to the point he actually has no jaw bone whatsoever, the long bones are barely existent...and - as extremely rare as this is in guinea pigs, and extremely rare it is indeed, he has been given enough pain medication to last for three days...apparently the condition is excruciatingly painful but we never knew for he never once complained...it wasn't until he stopped eating...even then, he never complained. He is home to say good bye until mom's friend comes up to be with them.

Her cardiologist is still celebrating New Year so she'll be packing nitro and aspirin and hopefully get worked up tomorrow, but it's all a blur now, the 80 mph wind gusts are blowing bits and pieces of all our hearts, sweeping them into nooks and crannies of stars and the Rainbow Bridge below them for the only difference between night and day now is that there has ceased to be a difference, only

heartache no nitro can cure.

OH MY WHAT A NEW YEAR'S DAY!

Hey Everybody, it's me, Calvin the small...and tomorrow mom wants to start off our New Year by taking me to the vet because the past few days I seem to have trouble chewing...they might take a Dremel and trim my teeth or something
and I got scared and hid in the back of my cage because I really, really don't want to go. And now I may not have to! Mom had what we are supposed to call a "minor cardiac event" but what really happened is -

"Calvin dear, you wouldn't happen to be on the laptop would you, Sweetheart? I need me some snuggles..."

"O.K. MOM! RIGHT AWAY!"

Well, after the ambulance and the hospital and she didn't want to spend the night cuz she wanted to come home and feed us and be with us so now SHE HAS to go to the cardiologist first thing and can't even have COFFEE first, so I think I got saved from the Dremel tool by mom's swell heart. Thanks, mom's heart, cuz I was really scared. Although it really is hard to eat so I know I gonna end up there soon...real soon probably...what mom thinks she got is just she got something
called Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and if that all it is then the surgery is quick and easy they just shove a laser up in there and electrocute a fifth electrical pathway, see, that's it, right, that's it...so that's probably what they gonna do
but maybe I gotta go to the vet first but anyway, we'll see.

We aren't certain, but feel that it is definitely POSSIBLE that the sun came out today. We will know more tomorrow.

Love you all and keep rooting for my teeth, please, because I get squirmy around Dremels and I don't have real bones so I really am scared. Mom will be fine, it was just her way of Drama, Drama, Drama...but really funny cuz her friend
Connie sent her a knit owlie pullover hat with owlie ears and she wore it in the ambulance cuz the nitroglycerin didn't blow anything up BUT it did give her a headache after she just got over having one for a WEEK so she pulled her owlie hat down over her face and everybody thought she was funny but she didn't care...she loves her owlie hat! Thank you, Aunt Connie!

And to all our precious friends who have sent us so many love-filled emails for a Happy New Year because of The Headache we haven't opened them yet but mom was SOOOOOooooo happy to see all your names in her INbox cuz we has a real
big feeling she ain't going OUT anytime soon!

Love you all...please Have a Wonderful New Year because you mean the
world to every one of us, especially me,
Calvin the getting smaller, cuz i can't chew...why? seriously...why?