Need Your Help And Pictures For My Next Magazine Article!

clsmell said:
Mine have pig puns as names - Piglet, Miss Piggy and Ginny Pig.
View attachment 67164First pic is all 3 meeting for the first time, before the barrier was removed.
View attachment 67165Piglet on his own.
View attachment 67167 Miss Piggy (white and grey fluff-ball) and Ginny Pig (Ginger, white and black)
View attachment 67168 Piglet again because I love it when he lays like this!
I don't seem to have any clear photos of all 3 together because it's impossible to get them all to stay still in one place at the same time lol.
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Thank you!
 
I may be too late now, but I've had/have some unusually named pairs.

Mycroft and Moriarty - I am a Sherlock Holmes fan, but didn't want to use the obvious name combo so went for something a bit different. They were named prior to the first Sherlock series being aired. Taking Moriarty into the vets after the second series of Sherlock had been shown and more people were aware of who he was..... it was quite embarrassing to be called through as "please would Moriarty Adams (not my real surname) come through to consulting room 2.." I got some very funny looks from other people who were waiting.

I've also had Telford(rip) and Brunel as a themed pair of boys, named by my OH after the Victorian inventors/engineers of the same names.

We've also currently got the gorgeous Wellington and Wenlock named after places in Shropshire and linked to Brunel through the Industrial Revolution connection.

I'll dig some pics out when I get home from work if you'd like them and I'm not too late.
 
Here are Wenlock and Wellington munching away on their tea tonight.

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Brunel, Wenlock and Wellington

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Telford(rip) and Brunel

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Mycroft and Moriarty - the only digitial picture I have of them together, in the days before I'd weaned them off the musli food.

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Tewdric said:
Hope you're feeling better now.
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Thanks, I am still somewhat headachy, but am feeling more human again, now! At least I am no longer sick and faint when bending forward, so I need to crack on with my interrupted cage clean and piggy wash today...
 
If your still looking, my boars are called Mr Darcy and Mr Rochester, I am into Period dramas! Lol :)
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carrie anne said:
If your still looking, my boars are called Mr Darcy and Mr Rochester, I am into Period dramas! Lol :)
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Thank you! Deadline is not until next week.

Do you happen to have a picture of both together as I can only feature one picture per naming theme?
 
Wiebke said:
Thank you! Deadline is not until next week.

Do you happen to have a picture of both together as I can only feature one picture per naming theme?
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I can't get a pic of them together right now, so sorry, they had a squabble! Boars *rolls eyes* could you use the pic Mr Darcy or Mr Rochester still? Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy (his full name) is very photogenic, lol, he has a lovely smile. If you can't, no worries xjune 1.webp
 
carrie anne said:
I can't get a pic of them together right now, so sorry, they had a squabble! Boars *rolls eyes* could you use the pic Mr Darcy or Mr Rochester still? Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy (his full name) is very photogenic, lol, he has a lovely smile. If you can't, no worries xView attachment 67603
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I have uploaded a cropped picture of your very handsome Mr Darcy for the article indeed! He showing off his Regency sideburn nicely in this picture, don't you think? :tu:
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I know it is too late for this to be useful for your article @Wiebke , but I wanted to share our naming story anyway.
The girls chose the piggies names, although they kindly allowed me to suggest a few possibilities (none of which were chosen I hasten to add).
The only rule was that the names had to work in both English (the main language in our home) and German (the main language outside of our home, and the one that all of their friends speak).

One of my suggestions was Chloe, and both of the girls fell about laughing when I suggested it.

Me: What's so funny? Chloe is a beautiful name.
DD1: Mum, calling a guinea pig Chloe is the same as calling a child born in England 'Loo'. Clo is the dialect word for toilet.

It goes without saying that my Swiss dialect is a work in progress, being helped along by my sympathetic and understanding children :roll:
 
Swissgreys said:
I know it is too late for this to be useful for your article @Wiebke , but I wanted to share our naming story anyway.
The girls chose the piggies names, although they kindly allowed me to suggest a few possibilities (none of which were chosen I hasten to add).
The only rule was that the names had to work in both English (the main language in our home) and German (the main language outside of our home, and the one that all of their friends speak).

One of my suggestions was Chloe, and both of the girls fell about laughing when I suggested it.

Me: What's so funny? Chloe is a beautiful name.
DD1: Mum, calling a guinea pig Chloe is the same as calling a child born in England 'Loo'. Clo is the dialect word for toilet.

It goes without saying that my Swiss dialect is a work in progress, being helped along by my sympathetic and understanding children :roll:
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Gia said:
My pigs are Sage, Basil, and Asparagus (Gus for short). Herbs and a vegetable! View attachment 67617 View attachment 67618 View attachment 67619
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Update on my magazine article as the magazine is in the last hectic stages before going off to the printers:

Alison, the editor, has decided to split my article in three parts and run it as a series over the next three issues. Partly this is thanks your great response with so many interesting naming themes and really wonderful pictures, which she is not willing to minimise and just squeeze into a little corner. She feels that your pictures deserve to be printed in a good size and displayed well!

All forum members that have submitted pictures are going to have at least one of them featured in one of the next three issues. Each picture is credited to the forum username.

If you have got a naming theme that has not yet come up, you are still welcome to submit pictures on this thread here (@Swissgreys ). Please tag me in by typing @ followed by my name. Click on my name when the box appears; this will create an alert.
 
Swissgreys said:
I know it is too late for this to be useful for your article @Wiebke , but I wanted to share our naming story anyway.
The girls chose the piggies names, although they kindly allowed me to suggest a few possibilities (none of which were chosen I hasten to add).
The only rule was that the names had to work in both English (the main language in our home) and German (the main language outside of our home, and the one that all of their friends speak).

One of my suggestions was Chloe, and both of the girls fell about laughing when I suggested it.

Me: What's so funny? Chloe is a beautiful name.
DD1: Mum, calling a guinea pig Chloe is the same as calling a child born in England 'Loo'. Clo is the dialect word for toilet.

It goes without saying that my Swiss dialect is a work in progress, being helped along by my sympathetic and understanding children :roll:
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One of the reasons why I find Welsh names a good alternative... :) For me what language depends I use depends on the person I speak to, but I find it very hard to switch from one to the other when speaking to guinea pigs. Swiss names just don't work for me in English speaking surroundings for some reason. I've tried but failed.

You are welcome to post pictures, preferably with as many of your piggies with a coherent theme in one picture. I can only put one picture per theme into the magazine.

Khloh or K'loh is the dialect word for (water) clo(set).
 
We adopted Ginger & Noodle from Cavy Corner at Easter.
my daughter and I have a thing about a Wagamama dish called Ginger Chicken Udon, which is noodle based so we decided to name them after our favourite dish. MY little girl also has a cuddly GP called chicken.
Ginger is the black one. Noodle is the ginger one.
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The Kattegat Piggies were all named after characters from the History Channel show "Vikings" - the other hooman slave and I are both LARPers who, at the point we got the girls, played an awful lot of Viking-esque characters.

Pictured: Thorunn (grey-and-white ridgeback), Auslag (ginger potato), Helga (badger pig) and Siggy (black-and-ginger scruffy pig). Gone but not forgotten (and very much missed) Lagertha and Ragnar.

The white-and-ginger pig next to Siggy is Norbert, adopted from The Littlest Rescue (as was Ragnar, the previous Jarl Of Piggy Kattegat); we'd considered renaming him to fit the theme, but once we met him 'Norbert' just felt right and Norbert he's stayed.

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Wiebke said:
Thank you ever so much! it allows me and the hard working editor who has to fit it all onto the page if we can feature as may different naming themes as possible.
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If we didn't make it into this issue is there a chance we might be in the next one? :) Would love to send a clipping of the "grandpigs" in a magazine to my parents!
 
Kallasia said:
If we didn't make it into this issue is there a chance we might be in the next one? :) Would love to send a clipping of the "grandpigs" in a magazine to my parents!
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I can let you know before the magazine goes to the printers, but it is up to the editor to put text and pictures together in the ultimate layout, so every page looks good and - whenever possible - suits best with the text. There is always a balance to strike.
 
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Wiebke said:
I am writing an article about naming guinea pigs for the next Guinea Pig Magazine issue coming out in September.

Have you got guinea pigs with themed or unusual names? I would love to illustrate the article with a range of naming themes for groups or piggies with interesting names. Any donated pictures that are in the article will be credited, of course!

Please message me with a good and clear picture of a themed group or of a single piggy with an unusual or special meaning name, the names of your guinea pig(s), the theme behind the names and your own name for credits in the magazine.

The envelope icon on the top bar is for private messaging. Thank you!
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Usually names just come into my mind when I've had the piggies for a few days. This rescued 3 I named Blubell, Tansy and Willow to follow a botanical theme!
 
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