Long day ahead... what's your favourite guinea pig memory?

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I have a very long work day ahead and I'm lecturing till 8.30 this evening (I have to deliver an online short course on Equine nutrition).

Can you all keep me going by sharing a favourite guinea pig memory? ❤
 
Mine is from 5 years ago.
We had not long had the guinea pigs, and at that time only had 3 - Ruby, Lucy and Eddi.
My daughter loved them and spent a lot of time with them.
Oddly enough even back then Ruby would climb onto her shoulder and shriek at any other piggy who tried to join her - in hindsight the signs were all there right from the start!

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Swissgreys said:
Mine is from 5 years ago.
We had not long had the guinea pigs, and at that time only had 3 - Ruby, Lucy and Eddi.
My daughter loved them and spent a lot of time with them.
Oddly enough even back then Ruby would climb onto her shoulder and shriek at any other piggy who tried to join her - in hindsight the signs were all there right from the start!

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Lovely pic and lovely memory! Love Ruby’s shrieking.. “my hooman... no one can share my hooman”🥰🥰🥰
 
Bradshaw Piggies said:
@Sweet Potato I like to make it challenging 😂 (must be the teacher in me)!
Hope you're having a better day today
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Yeah I've been at work again today It's nearly half term and I think I just need a break.

My favourite memory is lying on my belly holding out a green bean every day for about half an hour a day when the boys were having floor time in the hallway at our old flat. This went on for weeks until spud was finally brave enough to take it. We've come a long way since then but I'll always remember the first bits of taming and the first times they let us know they could trust us.
 
Sweet Potato said:
Yeah I've been at work again today It's nearly half term and I think I just need a break.

My favourite memory is lying on my belly holding out a green bean every day for about half an hour a day when the boys were having floor time in the hallway at our old flat. This went on for weeks until spud was finally brave enough to take it. We've come a long way since then but I'll always remember the first bits of taming and the first times they let us know they could trust us.
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Glad you’re feeling better!
I also can’t wait for half term.

it’s lovely when the piggies finally trust us 😊🥰
 
My favourite guinea pig memory is from nearly 5 years ago. When I bought Velvet (RIP) and Betsy from PAH (didn't know about rescues then) Velvet with "with pig". She hid it well. After I had had them for 10 days I suspected it cos she suddenly ballooned. I took her and Betsy to the vet for the free health check and the vet confirmed the pregnancy. On May 5th 2016 at around 7pm in the evening, I lifted up the hidey Velvet was in to discover this:-


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3 new born baby piggies just drying off and huddling together for warmth.:love:
 
Thanks all!

I have just finished my online lecture. It was nice to meet new people (I’m so used to just teaching our students).


I’m really really pleased with how the lecture went (Equine nutrition - digestive physiology, nutrient requirements, energy demands and ration formulation for horses at different life stages). It was nice to hear similar views of those who attended and there was lots of positive discussion linking how we feed horses back to meeting the needs of their natural physiology. 🐴

It was really hard for me to squeeze such a huge topic into 2 hours 🙈 and I have well and truly lost my voice now! 😂😂. But I’m definitely ending today on a high 😊😊😊
 
I know it may be too late, but I’ve not long finished work and am catching up here.

One of my favourite memories is of my childhood boar, Pepi.
He was a single pig and I spent a lot of time playing with him.
He loved playing chase on the lawn, I chased him and as soon as I knelt down he jumped on my lap, then jumped down and off we went again.
My mother thought I was tormenting him and called me over. As soon as I moved away Pepi started wheeking loudly so my mother realised we were playing and as soon as I returned he went running off again.
If we had known about neutering he would have lived with our sow but this was the 1970s!
 
Merab's Slave said:
I know it may be too late, but I’ve not long finished work and am catching up here.

One of my favourite memories is of my childhood boar, Pepi.
He was a single pig and I spent a lot of time playing with him.
He loved playing chase on the lawn, I chased him and as soon as I knelt down he jumped on my lap, then jumped down and off we went again.
My mother thought I was tormenting him and called me over. As soon as I moved away Pepi started wheeking loudly so my mother realised we were playing and as soon as I returned he went running off again.
If we had known about neutering he would have lived with our sow but this was the 1970s!
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What a lovely memory! 🥰🥰
hope you had a good day at work
 
Bradshaw Piggies said:
Thanks all!

I have just finished my online lecture. It was nice to meet new people (I’m so used to just teaching our students).


I’m really really pleased with how the lecture went (Equine nutrition - digestive physiology, nutrient requirements, energy demands and ration formulation for horses at different life stages). It was nice to hear similar views of those who attended and there was lots of positive discussion linking how we feed horses back to meeting the needs of their natural physiology. 🐴

It was really hard for me to squeeze such a huge topic into 2 hours 🙈 and I have well and truly lost my voice now! 😂😂. But I’m definitely ending today on a high 😊😊😊
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Considering how many options there are to feeding horses from weaning through senior, i can imagine you would lose your voice. Did you focus just on grain and grain substitutes or did you get into forages and supplements as well. Wish i knew about your course (and could access it from The US.) we did so much reasearch on grain and hay replacements for senior horses when Askim was still alive. He lived to 39. Course I'm sure things have changed again in the last 3 years.Screenshot_20200827-093701_Gallery.webp
 
horsefeather said:
Considering how many options there are to feeding horses from weaning through senior, i can imagine you would lose your voice. Did you focus just on grain and grain substitutes or did you get into forages and supplements as well. Wish i knew about your course (and could access it from The US.) we did so much reasearch on grain and hay replacements for senior horses when Askim was still alive. He lived to 39. Course I'm sure things have changed again in the last 3 years.View attachment 167161
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He’s beautiful!
I started with an overview of their digestive physiology (very condensed version) as I felt it important to link our feeding methods back to natural physiology throughout. We then looked mostly at forages and the issues associated with high grain feeding (eg Laminitis). We also looked at calculating rations and energy requirements of those at different life stages. I did explain that I teach nutrition to my university students over 3 or 4 years at different levels, and that it was a huge topic to try condense into a one-off two hour short course 🤦🏻‍♀️ Plus I know my students well, it was more difficult to deliver a course to strangers when I have no idea of their previous experience or knowledge.
I think you would enjoy our degree programmes!
 
I know I am late to this, but this is a lovely subject for a thread.

My favourite guinea pig memory was when Womble finally decided to trust us and take food off us. It took a few weeks....

3 years later he stands at the bars or with his paws on his bowl and demands his veg!

Today will be a good guinea memory too, Pinto going up the ramp by herself. :)
 
Kellykels said:
I know I am late to this, but this is a lovely subject for a thread.

My favourite guinea pig memory was when Womble finally decided to trust us and take food off us. It took a few weeks....

3 years later he stands at the bars or with his paws on his bowl and demands his veg!

Today will be a good guinea memory too, Pinto going up the ramp by herself. :)
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Lovely memories... thank you so much for sharing. What a lovely start to the day to read your piggie memories 🥰🥰
 
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