The Photo That Started it All...

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Guinea Pig village! That has to be the best village on the planet! x)x)x)
 
It always makes me laugh how the husbands have to be begged for our pets. They don't see them the way we do!
If I'd seen that lovely set-up I'm sure I would have been exactly the same. You look lovely, full of happy anticipation.
 
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My story is an 'unusual' one -
Had rabbits growing up and loved them (will try and find a photo of a 'mini me' with my bunnies!
When got a rented house with OH I was desperate for pets, having always grown up with something to cuddle (oh, and was, and am, quite broody for a non furry addition to our family!). OH was slowly being beaten down but was still not quite sure.

One night he went off to play poker with work friends, dropped him off, he said he would get a taxi home bout midnight.

Well, midnight passed and he didn't appear. I gave up and went to bed (one drink with friends in OH language means 'until I appear completely drunk!). At 8.30 when he wasn't home gave him a call.

Turned out he had won lots of money (about £250) and in his glee had not noticed the time. Full of drunken remourse when he had, decided to walk from friend's to save money (about 5 miles!) I picked him up from halfway and was met with OH brandishing flowers and saying lots of sorries. He declared 'I won all the money for you' and said I could have piggies with it!

Quick as a flash I took him off to piggie search (forgive me, did not know about rescues!). Storm, Mystique and Rogue came from a local pet shop that no longer sell live animals. They were in a huge pen and were well cared for. We were orginally going for a pair but my 3 were a little older and were left because they refused to sell individual piggies (unless if companion had died etc) and most people wanted pairs. Well, they had to be ours!

Bought them the biggest house they had to offer (looking back wasn't huge for 3, and they then had a c and c cage). OH proudly proclaiming all along 'see, poker was a good thing' (I did wait until he was sober to take him shopping!)

Sadly Rogue and Storm passed this year to the rainbow bridge but my Misty is still here. I don't have baby photos to show you on my laptop but here are my 3 -

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Misty is the huuge white one, Storm was honey coloured and Rogue was brown and white with a little crest.

Phew, that was long!

Update: we now have a hamster (Puck) and a cat (Toffi). OH is harder to break on the other future arrival! x
 
Awwww what lovely piggy tales! I held my friends guinea pigs, had never been near them before. I immediately went home and looked on the local rescue sites, i came across this pic of these guys needing a home and that was it!
We collected Ted and Dougal about a fortnight later. Since then our family has grown and we have 6 piggies.


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Aww! I knew you had Jasper and Dexter, didn't realise there are more! Did Jasper get out of jail?!
 
Yeah i have Jem and Spike and Teddy and Dougal. Jasper is just so animated and funny that he gets a lot of pics taken!
He is still in jail, waiting to be bailed out by his ladies. However he is well fed in there :))


This is Jem and Spike. Originally Jasper was paired with Jem but they fought.

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So many lovely stories!

Posiesparkles - Great story, Poker winnings providing piggles! Looks like that Broccoli won't last long in front of Misty x) Can we please have a Misty photo thread soon!

Sharon - I love the way you were addicted to pigs, after just holding one and just had to get some!
 
When I was 5, before we moved to Lincolnshire, I begged my mum repeatedly for a white rabbit, I was just obsessed with the idea because she had a white rabbit when she was a child, she'd shown me a photo of her (Snowy I think her name was). She told me I could when we'd moved and got settled up here, so I kinda left it at that.

Well, that never happened!

My younger brother started at the primary school I was at in '94, and mum found various school jobs like hearing kids read etc, and then from there she worked in other schools doing one-to-one teaching and finally special needs teaching. In the meantime, my brother and I were then asking her if we could have a dog. How young we were (6 and 9) she was never going to agree to that, but after a few months, she told me about a little boy she'd been doing some one-to-one work with, and he'd been talking about his mum's guinea-pig having babies. Well, she had already spoken to his mum and arranged we go down and see the babies. We'd only gone down to see them and choose one/two we wanted because the breeder wanted to make sure they had homes as soon as possible I guess, and I chose Pepper :) the only boy, and I think he had 2 or 3 sisters. He was the only one that looked most like mum too lol. It seems really odd, I remember watching them running around all scared in the hutch, hiding under mum lol, all tiny and new, so beautiful. I'm quite shocked now that I had such a brilliant first experience, and that my mum chose well to go to a good breeder because she's not that animal orientated to know the difference with things like that.

He was my best friend through very difficult times.

Pepper, one of his last photos:
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no.......no photo.......but i remember when i saw the programme on telly and they talked about piggies.....i yelled out to the OH, that's what the kids could have as pets!
well off to the store (i know! and no knowledge either.....what a silly grannie i was back then!) and two of our children decided to have piggies.........home came Sully and Duke x)x) that was in 2002....... and from that moment i have been in TOTAL LOVE x)

Loved all the stories and pics of you all x)
 
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Amazing! Arent they? My jaw was on the floor for most of the tour! :))

What a good idea I'm sure he wont notice us ambling about with a herd of piggies following us around hehe! Although saving that i may be seen bringing the Tapir into the house but shh!...i want a tapir! x) :))
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They're called tapirs because they're tapered at one end :))
 
My pigs started when I moved into my old flat, and needed a lawn mower! rolleyes
 
My story begins way back when I was about 7. My mum had a big win on the bingo one Friday night and said my big brother and sister could have £20 each and me and my other big brother got £10 each. Anyway on the Saturday my mum had arranged to go to a petting farm place so I could have a pony ride (was mad on horses back then, still would be if I could afford them). There in a little barn was Guinea Pigs! I instantly fell in love and begged my mum to let me buy one with the money she gave me, my brother joined in too! She tried to say no, and even held out for a couple of hours but mum was an animal lover too so she gave in and me and my brother came away with a guinea pig each. They spent that night in their respective cardboard boxes! On the Sunday mum had to go out and buy each of us a hutch and supplies. Certainly it cost more than the £10 she had given us :)) I remember after a while more guinea pigs were brought and we had quite a few in the end.
So when my kids begged me for a guinea pig after spotting some, I gave in too! knowing full well it would be me that looked after them, but to be fair my 5 year old does her fair share, shes convinced shes some kind of 'Guinea Pig Whisperer' :))


Oh and theres a Guinea Pig Village at Hatton Country World too, its awesome! I begged my husband to build me one after we went in the summer, I'm still waiting! :)
 
I'm dying to go to Longleat! I have a picture of me and my first ever guinea pig Jacob framed it's me holding him up on Christmas day just after I got him. I'd been begging my mum for a pet and she bought me Jacob. He was the kindest and most lovable guinea pig ever, he was so trusting and loyal. My mum then went and bought another guinea pig this time a girl, Bianca (they didn't live together don't worry), she was very aggressive at first and would bite...then we discovered it was because she was pregnant and she was saying "OI YOU'RE HOLDING ME ALL WRONG" once she became a mother she was so serene and calm, and then it became another..another..another and so on :))
 
awwww, such a sweet photo! heehee! i love that enclosure. giving me ideas for a free range piggy section in the garden ;)
 
Pat Shields said:
That has got to be one of the cutest things I've heard in a while. Who knows, maybe she is!
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Lol, yes she always telling me not to handle the guinea pigs without her, especially Mater as she says 'hes calmer and happier when I'm with him, because I know what he wants and he likes me'. Actually your right, she might be, who knows! :)
 
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