50 shades of red (and more)

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As we have had a bit of a negative about the lovely red eyed beauties, and I know we have had a thread last year for them, how about we celebrate all our ruby red eyed beauties in full colour on this thread. (and I can join in this year)

tyrian
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and his brother lupin
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happy boys
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Oh lovely! I love showing off my boars. <3

Gilbert. My lazy little lump of love
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Ludwig: My pellet addict and mummas boy.
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And the duo together. Very much an in love pair.
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I also have a purple/black/red eyed guinea pig but I won't post his pigtures as its hard to see on camera.
 
Awww I love lupin's coat! Is he a lilac? I do love red eyed beauties x)
 
I love ruby eyes! beautiful piggysxoxoxoxox)
 
Hey
I would just like to say to clear this all up, that I do not have anything against red eyed guinea pigs,in fact I own one. I only posted that thread because I do find them a bit scary and I just wanted to see if anybody else did. I can look past appearances( ask my pig with no ears!) I didn't mean to be negative or mean. All piggies are gorgeous no matter what they look like.
Thank you
 
Um I like pink and ruby eyes .... but my piggies dont really have them though..... Rolo's used to be slightly reddish but now she has cataracts you cant see them..... but a million moons ago .... when I was about 4 years old rolleyes my first ever piggy was a Pink Eyed White ..... yep sorry she was kept on her own....and un-imaginatively called.... 'Pinky' cos of her eyes :))

RIP Pinky Pig

Hey Whispa5 I saw your other thread and I didn't think you were negative or mean at all - some people do prefer some colours to others in pigs eyes and fur - that's the way people are - you've brought up an interesting debate to find out these things - and as you've said it's whats inside that counts :)

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Whispa5 said:
Hey
I would just like to say to clear this all up, that I do not have anything against red eyed guinea pigs,in fact I own one. I only posted that thread because I do find them a bit scary and I just wanted to see if anybody else did. I can look past appearances( ask my pig with no ears!) I didn't mean to be negative or mean. All piggies are gorgeous no matter what they look like.
Thank you
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We know you didn't. :) I took no offence by your thread at all. It's pretty much an excuse for me to show off my piggies. :))
 
Whispa5 said:
Hey
I would just like to say to clear this all up, that I do not have anything against red eyed guinea pigs,in fact I own one. I only posted that thread because I do find them a bit scary and I just wanted to see if anybody else did. I can look past appearances( ask my pig with no ears!) I didn't mean to be negative or mean. All piggies are gorgeous no matter what they look like.
Thank you
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You may not have, but being an open forum (as in anyone can read the threads without logging in), other people might not be as level headed and they get enough bad reputation (unjustly) as it is, any excuse sometimes for not looking beyond appearance and going for personality.

And a slightly worrying thing was the lighthearted comment of making people shudder at night when the light hit their eyes is quite disheartening to see when pigs with red eyes really do get overlooked purely for the colour of their eyes. Only spiders make me shudder and my flesh crawl, I would never own one as a pet but each to their own, personally I felt equating the shudder action to guinea pigs was a little unkind.
 
This may be a silly question but does anyone know why particular colour pigs are more likely to have red/pink eyes? For example lilacs, whites or red piggies more often have red/pink eyes. Don't think (from memory) I've seen a dark piggie with red eyes.. but feel free to correct me! (Or post a pic of one :)) ).
I sadly don't have any red/pink eyed piggies but I have one piggy with one brown and one blue eye which is quite interesting.
 
I have no idea PopcornPigs! lol

Back on topic... Nelson - This was taken just after I took him on so he was about 7 months old.

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PopcornPigs said:
This may be a silly question but does anyone know why particular colour pigs are more likely to have red/pink eyes? For example lilacs, whites or red piggies more often have red/pink eyes. Don't think (from memory) I've seen a dark piggie with red eyes.. but feel free to correct me! (Or post a pic of one :)) ).
I sadly don't have any red/pink eyed piggies but I have one piggy with one brown and one blue eye which is quite interesting.
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I would imagine its to do with specific genes and types together that determines eye colour, like blond hair and blue eyes being a presumptive normal, but other eye colours are possible through genes and recessive genotypes etc. Interesting thought though
 
Haven't had a piggy myself with red/pink eyes yet but I would love a lilac. My brother had 2 piggies when we were growing up one of them had red eyes and I had a bunny with red eyes

My brothers past piggies Debs(white/red eyes) and Josie (brown).

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My first "rescue" bunny Snowy who lived to a grand old age of 9

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Oooh I have a red eyed bunny too!

This is Jessie :) she's got such soft fur being a rex, this is how I imagine it'd feel stroking a cloud drool :))

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Piggies with ruby eyes do get a bad press, lots are left in rescue because they are deemed not as worthy as black eyed piggies sadly :(

My ruby/pink eyed beauty Peaches RIP

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We saw her in a Pet shop years ago, being kept in a tiny cage with a rabbit :( The pet shop said people didn't like pink eyes & her black eyed sister had already been taken home by someone.

We looked at her & she climbed up the side of the cage with her front paws as if to say "Take me home!" & as we were looking for a friend for our recently bereaved piggy we did :) She was one of our most affectionate piggies & was loved & adored until she passed away from heart failure aged 4 1/2. She never had a problem with her sight either even though lots of people said pink eyed piggies can lose their sight early on.

Ruby eyes are beautiful x)
 
Isn't it a pity that people don't realise that piggies, buns and all the animals in the world are all different shades ......... just like us x) and just like us they're all the same inside x)

I'm a loving the pigtures of the red eyed boooooootiful babies xoxox)

I agree fab pigture of you Megan and Tink x)
 
glad to see some buns, dont think this post is just for piggies, all red eye beauties are welcome :))

Our first rabbit was an albino dwarf lop called daisy - moody little madam that only me or my mum could handle but she sadly died at a young 2 years old RIP daisy
 
Eye pigmentation is directly linked to coat colour - lilac is a diluted version of black, the eyes also have diluted pigmentation so are pink. Eyes can be black, brown, olive, violet, ruby, red, pink and blue, all dependant on the coat colour.

The aversion to pink/red eyes seems to stem from childhood and a cheap, unimaginative trick of films/cartoons that when a character turns evil, the simplest way to show it is to colour the eyes red. Sadly some people don't seem to leave that behind as they grow up. They shudder at the colour pink - me? I shudder at the sight of babies but I don't start threads about it. Baby piggies = Awwwww. Baby humans = Ewwwww. And yes before you ask, I've had one.

So on to my contribution!

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The fabulous Demitri and his bad bad brother Dyson.
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Pink igloos turn pink eyed piggies pink all over!
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And the dashing Mr Darcy
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There's so many red eyed beauties I'll have to do another post!
 
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Even violet eyes glow in the dark.
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And last but not least, my beautiful tragic mum Phoebe.
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Suzy x
 
This is Gordon last night after a nap in a paper bag. Strange boy. @)

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Sorry about the quality, Its a phone picture.

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My Flicka's Eyes are a very dark red, you can't tell on pictures so i will not post one. They are strange because sometimes they look really red then other times they look brown. I will attempt to get a picture and post it.
 
Awww, So many pink and red eye'd piggies and buns x)

I love red eyed piggies, never had one but think the are beautiful
 
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