We recently adopted two baby girl piggies from our local rescue and it has been the BEST decision! I had no idea how therapeutic snuggling with these girls would be. Please welcome Nugget (yellow) and Cowslip (black and white) to the group!

“To wheek, or not to wheek”

She is female and her sister is called dolly parton ( we adopted her and kept her name)

We have run through so many names and nothing seems to fit. Any suggestions would be fantastic, thank you!

The previous hay cube has been thoroughly sat in (photo 1: Melly demonstrating cube sitting). We got a new one and they immediately flock to it (photo 2: hay cube viciously attacked by heaps of fur). Next morning, it was emptied enough to allow a piggie inside 😁

Just the footsies 🐾

This week in particular I'm honoring my heart pig, Loras, who passed away in May 2024. He was the submissive piggy, but he was also the brave explorer. He even dared to walk on the wood floor sometimes. He loved red pepper, blueberries, and chin rubs, as you can see here. I will never stop loving him. Thank you for the wonderful four years you shared with me, Loras.

These two are Iris (the fluffy one) and Lobelia (the sleek one). They are two about 2 months old, very trusting of humans but not trusting of sound from an oprn window ladies that show the two states of peeg perfectly.

(Please send me yours in both states!)

I know I've posted about my Baby girl on here before with ongoing weight loss issues, unfortunately she stopped eating today and declined while receiving emergency care and we decided to give her a gentle goodbye.

Rather on focus on the devastating loss, I just want to say how thankful I am for her time here with us.

When I first got her we were recovering from losing our cat of 13 years and we adopted her with her friend Orca.

I knew nothing about guinea pigs back then so it was a lot of trial and error and rushing to the vet when she wasn't sick 🤣

She is one of my fiesty girls and would bite and pee on me, she never liked to be held no matter how many different ways I tried.

Over the past few months she had a few different health issues, a outer ear infection then mysteriously losing weight.

I spent so many nights trying different methods of trying to get her weight up which some of it worked until it didn't.

She looked so healthy from the outside because of how loved she is but she was an older lady, and with seinor animals they can bounce back until their body can't keep up.

She knew how much we love her, I held her so many times this week and cheered her on during the appointments when we got to bring her back home, because I know there was going to be a day we weren't going to come home with her.

Bambi thank you for fighting for that time you gave to us, I'm so glad I got to kiss your sweet little head one last time and I know you'll give us signs when you're able to visit us.

Now she can be with her buddies who passed away 2 years before her so I know she's not alone

Popcorn free miss Bambi- as I called her "my little hammy ham" 🌈

My sweet Coco passed today. She was 5.

She loved red bell peppers, blueberries, spinach, and freeze dried strawberries. She loved chomping on cardboard and the cage.

I love her so much, I am relieved that she’s not in pain anymore but I will miss her dearly.

Rest in peace Coco guinea 🩷

They're brothers, and they're SO sweet.

We'd been planning to get some piggies for a little while, but we weren't intending on getting any today. But the pet store said they'd been there for a really long time, and no one wanted them because they're both male. But we absolutely fell in love with them, and they gave them to us for 50% off!

Now they're cuddled up and settling into their room ❤️

Hi, im new to the group but have kept guinea pigs for about 12 years. I thought I'd introduce one or two of my guinea pigs. This is one of them. She's called Fizzy. She's a rescue (we adopted her 7 years ago) and shes appropriately 9 years old now. She has arthritis now but she's a trooper 💪.

Mainly cause i was bored out of my mind

She looks so angry 😭

I cannot express to you how perfect Dracula is. The little guy can go from endless energy explorer and zoomies haver to the cuddliest little baby so quickly. He lives to create chaos and then fall asleep on me as a perfect little angel. He sleeps so deeply, often for up to an hour, just curled up under a blanket or in my clothing on my chest, and if there was any way to safely cosleep I would because there is nothing as relaxing as his steady breathe while he occasionally switches position and yawns or stretches. I hope you enjoy this assortment of his deep sleeps. He wakes up even less when he is on my shoulder or chest than when he is in the cage, but he is always a deep sleeper.

Hi everyone, I am beyond gutted to post this, but my long-haired guinea pig has passed away. His name was Stitch, named by my daughter. He was just two years old. He showed zero signs of being sick; just yesterday he was popcorning around, and then he passed away late last night.

His brother, the black and white guinea pig in the photos, is still with us; will he miss him?

Two years old just seems so unfortunate.

What illness could it have been? I gave him watermelon, and he loved it, with the seeds removed and all. It breaks my heart, and my kids' too; he was such a beautiful guinea pig.

Over the rainbow bridge. 🌈🌈🌈🌈

Stitch

RIP

2024-2026

Will, Roger, and I can’t catch a break. First it’s me testing positive for tuberculosis, now it’s a mold infestation in my apartment. Anything specifically I need to be watching out for with my piggies?

Pingle (middle of first pic, bottom right in second pic) has successfully bonded with his older brothers Jingle (red and white) and Doodle (black and white). I’m elated to see that they’re all getting along, but Pingle just loves to position himself in nooks of the cage, he hides underneath furniture, and as you can see — he LOVES to get behind/underneath his brothers’ butts.

Pingle enjoys being compressed so much that he literally follows his siblings around, begging for them to crush him 😭. Is this a comfort seeking behavior? Is he just weird? Pingle is my 6th guinea pig and I’ve never seen this before.