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.

Meet the Piggies: Poof

Name: Poof (because she is like a poofball with her fur sticking out in all directions, and because she likes to vanish underneath the fleece in her cage)
Age: estimated 1 year, 2 months
Weight: 1006 grams/ 2lbs, 3.5 oz
Description: tricolored Abyssinian with patches of white, cream, and lemon agouti
Favorite foods: grass, dandelion greens, corn husks, corn silks, fresh hay
Favorite activities: chowing on grass, diving in and out of tubs of hay, having her chin petted, bossing around the younger pigs

Lounging about after a meal

Story: Poof moved in with us and the slaves in October 2010. Currently the newest addition to our Collective, the first thing she did was tell us how spoiled we were. As a baby cavy, she had been abandoned in a box on the side of a freeway, then subsequently spent several months living in a rescue alongside some bunnies and a chinchilla. She didn't mind the bunnies, but you should hear her on the subject of chinchillas... the first time she went to the vet for a checkup, her ears were so full of chinchilla dust, the q-tip swab came out pitch black! Our slaves sometimes cut up empty cardboard boxes for her because her favorite toy is a tub filled with fresh hay. As soon as they put it down she immediately leaps in and begins rustling around finding choice pieces to gobble up. Sometimes she gets territorial and won't allow any of us in with her though, so whee have to wait until she has finished to have our turns. It is difficult because whee are very impatient, but thankfully the slaves give us plenty to go around!

Enjoying some hammock time while Peaches is preoccupied

Meet the Piggies: Peaches

Name: Peaches
Age: 10 months old
Weight: 1066 grams/ 2lbs, 5.6oz
Description: blonde and white Dutch with four white socks
Favorite foods: grass, wheatgrass, romaine lettuce... loves practically EVERYTHING
Favorite activities: inhaling grass outside, eating like a madpig, lounging in the soft comfy hammock, competing for food, squealing for food

Peaches favorite activity (eating) and favorite food (romaine lettuce)

Story: Peaches came to live with the slaves in September 2010. Our human slaves quickly discovered her favorite pastime - eating! Peaches can often be found still chowing away upstairs long after the rest of us have finished eating our fill and retreated back into our hideaways to sleep. Out of the younger cavies, Peaches is the most friendly and sociable to the slaves. We theorize this is because she knows that the nicer she is to them, the more likely they are to pet her and spoil her with treats! When she is not eating, she can typically be found engaging in her other favorite activity, snoozing in the hammock. This does get frustrating for us sometimes.. after all, only one pig can fit in there at a time, and since she has a tendency to hog it for hours, the rest of us rarely ever get a turn! Our slaves named her Peaches because she was tan and white colored, like peaches and cream.

Resting in her favorite toy - the hammock!

Meet the Piggies: Truffle

Name: Truffle
Age: 9 months old
Weight: 953 grams/ 2lbs, 1.6 oz
Description: tricolored English Crested with patches of golden agouti, brown, and white. Also has a white ring that goes only halfway around her middle
Favorite foods: grass, wheatgrass, blueberries, radicchio, frisee, cilantro, baby lettuce salad mix
Favorite activities: eating grass outdoors, running sideways at sharp angles, galloping around in random directions, chasing and annoying Peaches, sleeping in corners on soft surfaces

Learning how to use office supplies

Story: Truffle came along with her sister Belka to live with the slaves in September 2010. The slaves immediately liked her multicolored crest and the white ribbon that went halfway around her middle. Since she was already cocoa and caramel colored, they thought it looked like she was being decorated, much like a chocolate truffle. Truffle was at first very nervous and shy, but after getting used to the slaves she became a more sociable piggy (not that whee can blame her, those slaves can be rather odd at times). During out of cage time, she enjoys galloping about the floor, but unlike her sister Belka, she likes to run at random angles in random directions (she won't tell us why, but whee speculate she might be trying to compute complex mathematical food equations in her head).

Lounging amidst the folds of fleece

Meet the Piggies: Belka

Name: Belka (dubbed Nutmeg, then Kiwi, then finally named Belka (белка) which is Russian for "squirrel")
Age: 9 months old
Weight: 1000 grams/ 2lbs, 3.3 oz
Description: golden agouti with two brown patches and a brown tummy

Favorite foods: grass, wheatgrass, pellets, cucumber, dandelion greens, oranges, corn husks
Favorite activities: devouring grass in the great outdoors, doing laps, scampering behind the blinds, hurtling through tunnels, jumping onto higher surfaces, climbing, standing on her hind legs, being active, being mischievous and trying to get into out-of-bounds places, popcorning  

"But I wasn't ready yet!"

"What a piggy's gotta do to get some toys around here..."

Story: Along with Truffle, Belka came to live with the slaves in September 2010. They decided to name her Belka because her agouti coat, lighter colored tummy, ability to stand on her hind legs, and natural affinity for jumping and climbing were characteristics that strongly reminded them of a squirrel. Out of all of us, whee have to agree that she is the most athletic. Even though we all do a bit of jogging during out of cage time, her penchant for running laps makes her faster than the rest of us. The rest of us always snicker when we see Poof scurrying along trying to catch up to Belka - that is, until she comes barreling around a corner or tunnel and crashes straight into us. It doesn't hurt, but still... a pig has to set boundaries, you know. Belka greatly enjoys engaging in non-slave-approved clandestine operations, such as exploring the forbidden area behind the couch and trying her best to dislodge the blinds.

Comfortable in the cuddle cup

Meet the Piggies: Morry

Name: Morry (Derived from S'more, because of his long brown and white fur)
Age: He won't tell us!
Weight: 2lbs, 11-14 oz.
Description: brown and white longhaired Peruvian

Favorite foods: grass, wheatgrass, carrot, carrot tops, pellets, herb salad mix, frisee, corn silks, parsley, celery leaves, oranges, fresh hay
Favorite activities: grazing on grass outside, sleeping with his face in the food bowl, rumblestrutting, following Coppy around, playing with the slaves , bouncing all over the cage

Getting in some post dinner exercise exploring

Morry with his lion mane haircut

Story: Morry came to live with the slaves in June 2006. He has the important distinction of being their first, and so far only boar. They just had to take him home with them after, upon seeing them for the first time, he happily bounced up to them and started sniffing at them inquisitively. He was the first of us to learn that our slaves can be trained; he would wheek loudly and insistently at dinnertime until he was given a bit of his favorite food. Whee have to say, he is the friendliest and most sociable out of all of us as he is always trying to make friends with other piggies or talking to the slaves. Although other pigs didn't necessarily take to him at first, he eventually made good friends with them - like Coppy, whom he became best friends with. They were always sleeping together on opposite sides of the cage divider, stealing each others food, or exploring together. Because his hair grew pretty quickly, he got to spend a lot of time getting styled with our slave.. whee are rather jealous, none of the rest of us have long fur!

Meet the Piggies: Sharky

Name: Sharky (Her original name was Charcoal.. again we have no idea where the crazy slaves get these ideas from)
Age: Declined to answer
Weight: whee think from 2lbs, 10-14 oz.
Description: solid black Standard Self

Favorite foods: grass, wheatgrass, corn husk/green leaves, green beans, spinach, fennel, carrot tops, frisee, radicchio, red lettuce
Favorite activities: mowing the grass, eating all the surrounding food, climbing upwards, snoozing in patches of sunlight, napping on Cinnamon's rear, being spoiled

Curious Piggy

Sitting next to a mini watermelon

Story: Sharky came to the slaves in April 2005 along with her cagemate Coppy for the purpose of becoming Cinnamon's friend. They took to each other very quickly and from then on, wherever Cinnamon went, Sharky was never far behind. One of her favorite things to do was cuddle up to Cinnamon, lean against her side, and sleep. She was always a very relaxed and trusting girl, from the start she was always willing to be hugged and cuddled. Our slaves used to say that she looks like a chubby little black bear, which whee thought was silly as we piggies are far cuter than any prickly hulking bear. Sharky loved her wooden hiding house where she could monitor the slaves without being seen - since she was all black, she could blend into the shadows without being seen. She and her close friend Coppy did quite enjoy terrorizing Morry when he was young, although they all became good friends as they grew older.

Meet the Piggies: Coppy

Hello all, for our Meet the Piggies profiles, our first feature shall be our beloved boss and editor-in-chief, *drumroll please* Coppy!
- CaliCavies

Editor-in-chief Coppy

Name: Coppy (somehow the crazy slaves got this nickname from her original name, Coffee)
Age: turned 6 a month ago in February
Weight: ranges from 2lbs, 9-13 oz.
Description: tricolored Abyssinian with patches of white, brown, and golden agouti fur

Favorite foods: grass, clovers, dried corn husks/green leaves, corn silks, green beans, broccoli leaves, baby dill, watermelon, grapes, corn, carrot tops. Also beet leaves and alfalfa hay, but our slaves don't give us these very frequently at all 
Favorite activities: munching on grass outdoors, snoozing in cuddle cups, using other piggies as pillows, lazing in fresh hay under her favorite red castle, being hugged and spoiled by our slaves

Coppy in her 6th birthday present - a new cuddle cup!

Story: Coppy first came to the slaves back in April 2005 after the first of their two piggies went to the Rainbow Bridge. As a youngster, she was an alert, energetic little ball of popcorning Abyssinian fluff. Since then, she has grown into an assertive but affectionate piggy - which is why she is our boss! Occasionally she can be quite the demanding little tyrant, but our slaves say that's just because she has such a big personality. Coppy's best friend is a piggy named Morry (whom we shall meet later), they spend hours munching, talking, and napping together. Sharky (another one of our Collective) is also a close friend, as they were cagemates together when they first came to live with our slaves. Out of all the piggies in our Collective, whee agree that Coppy is the bravest and smartest - she is constantly finding new and unique ways to outsmart our slaves.