Bathing songs

(in David Attenborough voice) "It is common amongst piggies to sing each other little songs whilst their mate is bathing."

New pictures

Further adventures of L & A



And another circus picture (although it seems that L has joined the show!)

Guineas in history

Line-rendering of a historiated capital (s. xiv 2/2) from "Legenda Cavia" (British Library MS Royal 78, fol. 39v)

Guinea Pigs LINE UP!

Why Japanese zoos are the coolest. Pavlovian Guinea pig exhibits!

Still more circusery

The Magnificent Sock!

Daredevil! Lover! Accountant!

Death-defying!
Long-Lasting!
Fully Bonded!

Guinea Pig Insanity!

I feel that I must pass this video along, in the interests of DRIVING THE WORLD INSANE WITH THE CUTENESS:



Don't say I didn't warn you...

More Circus Pigs

They eat a surprising amount of it, y'know...

For Lyra

To the person without whom this blog would not be possible:

Guinea Pig Circus

Further installments in the Circus Series:



Braving the fury of a stuffed alligator



Cavy acrobatics

Requesting Pigs

Here is a response to a request from John R.:

Adventures of Lyra-Pig

Lyra-pig has been keeping busy -- tending her trees today.

New Series -- Guinea Pig Pool

These are the first in another series of cartoons -- guinea pigs at the pool!



What else did you think they would make?



They don't like sunscreen.

New Cartoon!

The Disappointments of an Auto-Coif

Back to School

With the moving-in of this year's freshmen, we can no longer deny that school is definitely upon us. We'll both be teaching this semester, so enroll in the precept with the guinea pigs as leaders!



Back to the books!

The Secret Life, Arts section

Presenting the Lyra-pig, doing what she loves best:

New cartoon

They always pick that song...

The Family album

Here are some shots of the happy pig family:

Here is our oldest, Chumley -- we brought him home in February 2006:



Chumley, as the first, spent a lot of time only in the company of humans and so he is most affectionate of the three and least socially ept amongst guinea pigs. He's enormous (3 lbs last checkup!). He doesn't wheak much but loves to snuggle.

This is Sauce (brought home Nov. 2006):



Sauce is a little pepper pot. Rambunctious, athletic, curious to a fault and always making noise. He climbs like monkey and can get into almost anything. He was boss of the cage for a long time, but now that Wesley's bigger he's enduring a serious challenge to his hegemony.

And the baby, Wesley, who we got in March 2007:



(This pic was not considered cute enough to be on Cute Overload, but I'm pretty sure it was only because she has had a lot of pics of pouty rodents...)

Wesley is of course a whole lot bigger now. He is very deferential to Chumley, but doesn't let Sauce get away with anything. So there's a lot of chuttering in the cage nowadays. He's coming around to being affectionate, mostly with his mommy, but isn't so sure about me.