Piggy Pics of the Day: Piggies Rule

Like Murphy's law, its just another indisputable fact of life that piggies rule! Here whee are posing with the decorative wooden block our humans brought back from the Pignic. As you can see, whee don't always wish to cooperate with the photographer... well, piggy modeling is hard work you know!

Poof somehow managed to get her nose dirty - even though everything around her is clean

Peaches decides to rebel

"Okay we're done for today, I hear a fridge full of veggies calling my name!"

Piggy Pics of the Day: Guarding the food

Guarding my food

Revy demonstrates one way to keep your food secure from other poaching piggies. Here is her three step process:


Step 1 - Select VIV (sort of like VIP, except it stands for Very Important Veggie) to protect. Try to limit yourself to one, because sleeping on more than one food item becomes lumpy and uncomfortable. Also, it becomes difficult to defend more than one VIV.

Step 2 - Stretch out and arrange self over VIV, making sure to cover as much as possible

Step 3 - Proceed to sleep.* Enjoy warm snack upon awakening!

*Optional: sleep with eyes open to ward off potential poachers.

"This is MY snack!"

Post-snack nap retreat in my pigloo.
Observe how I have dangled my cute paws outside as bait for treat-wielding humans.

Herd Film Strips

Whee heard our humans talking about something called 35mm film, and decided to investigate for ourselves. Nowadays everything is digitalized, but vintage has its charm too... click on the film strips for closeups!

Cinnamon and Caramel

Sharky, Morry and Coppy take turns at the food bowl

...while Truffle, Revy, Poof and Peaches squabble over corn husks!
Truffle takes an unorthodox approach in the last frame.

Piggy Pics of the Day: Poker for Parsley

Poof deciding which cards to keep

While our humans were away, whee guinea pigs decided to have a few games of piggy poker using our new deck of piggy playing cards. Instead of poker chips and money, whee played using more important currency - FOOD! Here are a few pigtures of our Poker for Parsley night.

Peaches the dealer prepares the deck - she shuffles by sitting on the cards and  popcorning

Truffle was the Purveyor of Parsley, protecting the loot

Belka puts on her thinking cap

Revy decides to raise

Belka's bluffing face - cute, no?

Poof opts to leave the table while she's ahead

Truffle takes her cut of the winnings

Whee are not sure who really won, but for some reason, whee think it was Truffle...

Guinea Pig Playing Cards!

Peaches strikes a pose next to one of her playing cards

For today, whee are presenting our very own, special, personalized guinea pig playing cards featuring yours truly, the piggies of the Cali Cavy Collective!

How did this come about, you may ask? Well, as the story goes, a few weeks ago our humans were playing cards next to us while whee were going about our lawn mowing duties. Coppy happened to wander by them and took a look at what they were playing with, which was a boring standard deck of cards. So whee decided to personalize our own deck of cards, featuring pictures of our herd. That way, our slaves can think of us whenever they play cards, even if whee are happily sleeping in another room!

Whee were also hoping that when playing, they would see our pigtures and admire our cuteness, which would hopefully have the desired effect of making them want to feed us veggie treats. But that is something for another day. Enlarge the pigtures to see everything up close! Personally, whee think our cards turned out pretty well (although the same cannot necessarily be said for these pigtures, so give us a wheek if you want better closeups!).

One of Morry's kings next to the back of our deck. Can you guess who is featured on the back?

Sharky's aces

King Morry-mor

Queen Coppy

Jacks, featuring the king and queen, truly best friends forever

Poof pokes her head around to see her likenesses 

Revy tries to mimic her modeling poses

An uncharacteristically shy Peaches wonders why she is on all the "Wanted" posters

Belka admires all the pretty peegs

Truffle waits expectantly for a treat

Peaches' Army

A selection of colorful group closeups

Herd lineups

The triumphant trio

Cinnamon and Caramel, our humans first two peegs

Meet the Piggies: Revy

Name: Revy, short for Revy the Pirate. Nicknamed "Panda"

Age: estimated 1 year

Weight: 1153 grams/ 2lbs, 8.7 oz

Description: black and white Abyssinian with a white eyepatch, white patches along her left side, and white-socked paws

Favorite foods: grass, red lettuce, romaine lettuce, carrots, tomato, dark green corn leaves, radicchio, celery leaves, dandelion greens 

Favorite activities: exploring uncharted territory, rearranging the furniture in her home, testing everything with her teeth, flipping her hay tub, moving her pigloo, running laps, making magical bean sculptures. 

Story: Like Poof, Revy's origins are unknown - she was found wandering in an alley near Venice Beach, California. She was taken in by Orange County Cavy Haven, our favorite rescue organization, until our humans adopted her several weeks ago (they drove eight hours each way to pick her up!). She was given the name "Revy the Pirate" by her kind and caring foster mom, who thought the name fit because of her white eyepatch and spunky personality.

After living near Revy for the past few weeks, whee all have to agree that she is definitely an Abyssinian With Attitude - she has quite a strong personality and a very loud wheek! (Seriously, whee were scared poop-less the first few times.) You can see this by the way she rearranges the furniture in her home - she redecorates every day after the slaves clean our cage by flipping her hay tub, pushing her food bowl around, and relocating her pigloo to exactly where she wants it. For example, if she is feeling lazy, she will position her pigloo right next to the hay so less walking is involved. Revy also decorates by making poop sculptures - just yesterday she made an entire poop pyramid! She's quite the artist and whee were very impressed!

And that concludes our Meet the Piggies profile for Revy! If you want to get to know the rest of us, read the rest of our Meet the Piggies profiles here.

Piggy Pics of the Day: Peaches' Army

Peaches' Army readies to conquer

A short comic strip featuring Peaches' piggy army! General Peaches assembled a small unit to conquer a neighboring patch of grass, but couldn't quite manage to keep her overeager troops in line...

Squabbling breaks out amongst the troops

"Settle down now, back in formation!"

"Left paw, right paw, left!"

But Revy breaks rank to claim more of the communal corn husk rations -

A tug-of-war tussle ensues among the troops

General Peaches finally surrenders to insubordination

Piggy Pics of the Day: Being blow dried at the spa

A very disgruntled Truffle

Of course, since we piggies are not self-drying creatures, after every bath comes something equally as trying - blow drying! Our slaves try to fool us by telling us that whee are getting a complimentary blow drying after our shampoo fur treatment at the "piggy spa", but we know better. The phrase "Piggy Spa" is to be dreaded, such as in the case of "manicures" and "pedicures", which is really just their code word for nail trimming. WhEEK!


What they are actually trying to do is ensure that whee end up with soft, shiny, pettable fur. Or style us so we end up looking ridiculous, like long-haired Morry the Peruvian. He always ends up looking like he has a lion's mane around his head. He insists it is not as funny as it sounds.

While some piggies may not mind baths, so far absolutely none of us has ever enjoyed being blow dried. That  hair dryer is the devil! *DURR durr durr

Bleary-eyed Cinnamon

Squinting Caramel

Slighty damp Sharky: "I've been abused!"

Morry, pre lion mane

Coppy being toweled off: "How could you do this to me?!"

Poof bracing herself against the offensive onslaught of the dryer

An extremely offended, spiky, porcupine-like Belka

Peaches wrapped up like a burrito = Peachrrito?

Revy plotting an escape route from the dreaded dryer