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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!

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THEN SCROLL DOWN BELOW COSMO CAT AND PRESS PLAY-BUTTON! then wait...and wait...we have waited years...YEARS!

Yes, we HAVE
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NORTH OF SEATTLE, we wanted to share memories of...our NOT-SUMMERs?

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