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!

The Little Town of Fairhaven (or, ONE PLACE TO Go When The SUN COMES OUT!)

TODAY, A HARMONIC 
CONVERGENCE OCCURRED:
THE SUN CAME OUT
AND SO DID MOM...
THIS IS PART ONE OF THE
WEE TOWN OF FAIRHAVEN,
JUST SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN
BUT MUCH MORE QUAINT.
AND TOURISTY.
AND EXPENSIVE.
BUT WHO CARES?
DID WE MENTION THE SUN
CAME OUT?


 

 

High Tea, Anyone?
(WHAT IS TEA?)


 

OR: "SELF-PORTRAIT IN TEA HOUSE WINDOW"

 

 

 

 

Little boy chasing balloon on Village Green.

 

My other car is a car.
~

WHERE'S MOM, YUM-YUM?

 

Psssssst...YumYum, where's mom?

 

SUN OUT! SUN OUT! SUN OUT!
EARTH DAY! EARTH DAY! EARTH DAY!
(Love the little girl in the picture, what a sweetie!)

 

Yeah, JUST DO IT^^^

 

BUT FIRST VISIT THE CAFE WITH GREAT
DOGGIE ART TO "LOCK & LOAD!"


 

 

 

^AND DON'T GET CAUGHT^

 

^DRIVING MY CAR^

 

FISH & CHIPS SUNNYSIDE UP!

 

GET A HAIRCUT!
WELCOME TO FAIRHAVEN.
You will never find your way around
our town because B'ham is actually
THREE small towns incorporated
into one with none of them ceding their
street names or directions so...
you know when it's fall because you see
all the new students and their parents
driving the wrong way down one way
streets. But you also see our resident 
"funny people" walk (drunk or otherwise) 
the wrong way down the middle of one way streets...and the fact that we stop & wait for them (or are them) is what makes our home so unique!
~

HAPPY, HAPPY VINNI-VALLI-GUINEA-WILLI

 

Hey y'all...see all my cool stuff? Remember
beautiful Fiona a few posts up?
(WE WANTS HER!)
Her mom made this stuff and we loves it!
Thank you, Jen, for everything you do on
behalf of spoiled (deservedly so) piggies
EVERYWHERE, but 'specially me.
Us, I meant us.
Thank you.
"MOM! CAN WE GET A FIONA, TOO?"
(UH-OH)
Sweetheart, check Jen's Custom Crafts online because 
I don't think Fionas are for sale on her site,
sweetheart, how about a nice scrunchy-snuggle?
WITH FIONA?
(UH-OH)
~~~~~~~~~~

BHINDI'S SECRET BALANCE BEAM YOGA STRETCHES!

 

EXHALE and sssttttrrrreeeeetttttccccchhhh!


 

Mom, am I stretched enough yet?


 

NOW INHALE, DEEPLY.
AAAAaaaaahhhhh....mmmm.
I loves me my HayOga OlympiG Training.
Mom, are you standing on your head again?
DON'T BREAK IT!
#$%&*!
(oooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................!)

ALL TUCKED IN FOR THE NIGHT...RIGHT?

 

All the babies tucked in?

 

I'm tucked in, Ma, just a midnight snack.

 

I'm tucked in, too, Ma, just a midnight snack
and I'm even stretched out if you feel like
scritchy-scratching my long Mohawk?


 

See, ma, even my eyes are closing while
I finish this one fine piece of hay...mmmm.


HI EVERYBODY!
WHATCHA DOIN?
 

OH BLOODY HORK,
YUM-YUM,
WE HAVE A "SITUATION!"
GUESS WHO AIN'T TUCKED?


Let's keep our cool, Bhindi, leave
this to mom, she'll sweet-talk 
him into tuckin' just watch!



 

Waita minute! How I tucked?
Whadda? Whadda? Whadda?
Good night,
love,
Vinni the Tucked

FAIRY

 

Sometimes we fall in love and don't know how it happens.
We meet a special someone and before we know it, we can't
forget that special someone. That's how we felt about Fairy.
She's just special. Fell in love, still in love.
As you know, she is a "lethal white" and we hope you
have read her blog (to right, under "My Blog List") and
know she is both deaf and blind on the outside but has
no limitations of love on the inside.


Today is a birthday.


It is also a week in which we grieve for our precious Meeri-Boy
and we cannot forget him in the celebration as he remains part
of our growing herd...in life and in passing, for we have really
lost no one, we do not believe we can lose anyone we love.
Meeri, we love you.
Please give our love to our loved ones too numerous to name
through our tears. Yes, cupcakes and tears,
that is the nature of life and we embrace it fully, which is
what we fell in love with about Fairy: she embraces life
fully, knowing that most "lethal whites" never even have
a chance at life at all. It is people like Anita and Ian who
give so much for her to have this magic life which she
is soooo generous with, and Ingrid and Helmut to care
for eight meeris, rabbits, dogs, we forgot how many others,
and now there are seven meeris, and here there are three
but actually, in a way, I can give them more; as my own
energy diminishes these three have a higher quality of life...


For my birthday cupcakes I would like to award one to each and every one of you who sacrifices so that a little brother or sister or a loved one of any species may enjoy a higher quality of life, whether you are nursing an elderly parent, caring for a dying companion animal, sending money to a shelter because although you work too many hours you can enable them to buy things they need (hint, hint, we love BEST FRIENDS in Utah.) 
This birthday party's table
has a place setting for each and every one of you, come with smiles, come with tears, just come, please, for you are among the truly blessed ones humble enough to hold out a hand to another and we're HAPPY-DANCING  cuz YOU'RE OUR FRIENDS:  HAPPY-DANCE & HAPPY SONG!


In India, they say "many pranams" 
and think (and HOPE!) 
it means: many gracious thanks,
a sign of profound respect to another.


MANY PRANAMS, YOU!
love,
YumYum, Bhindi, and Vinni-Valli
(who secretly crawled and hid - AGAIN! - in YumYum's
cage while he was on Runabout so YumYum is in Vinny's
cage and Vinny is in YumYum's cage...at least he didn't
shark-surprise us this time!)

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

 

BOOM! OUTTA the locker room into
OLYMPIG STADIUM to show his prowess 
on the Balance Beam is Bhindi-Boy from
the 
United States of America!
(actually it is rumored cupcakes are in Olympig Village
if ya know the right piggies!)