Who Was Your First?

[kerry]

I just found a photograph of my old guinea pig Gerroffy (I dont think that is an actual name but I was about 10 years old)

My first guinea pigs where two white boys called Georgie and Toasty ( you can see I'm good at naming pets)

 

[sport_billy]

Gerroffy was beautiful , lovely photo of him

 

[sport_billy]

Our first piggies were Pitch & Putt

Pitch, she was the most laid back piggy ever.



Putt, she was such a sweet piggy and we built up a really strong bond after Pitch passed away

 

[kerry]

Aw those girls are lovely! In last 2 decades as a family we have has a grand total of 10 guinea pigs!

Georgie & Toasty
Houdine & Ginger
Sparky & Gerroffy
All RIP
And now currently I have
Costa & Flower and Bambie & Bonnie (aka Beaver pig)

 

[Julesie]

Itchy was technically our first guinea pig but he was my brothers and not mine but I still loved him.

But my first guinea pigs were Ludwig and Gilbert and the reason I signed up to this forum the day I got them. =)

Ludwig
xmas18 by Julesie_g, on Flickr

Gilbert
gil16 by Julesie_g, on Flickr

 

[sport_billy]

Awwww beauties Lovely ones of Ludwig & Gilbert

 

[Chief Guinea Pig]

My first piggies and only piggies are Lily and Lola. The first photo of them, excuse the red eyes, the camera was dodgy!

 

[Julesie]

Awwww beauties Lovely ones of Ludwig & Gilbert

Thank you so much

 

[biscandmatt]

ches and maisie were my first piggies. we adopted ches first and then maisie joined us around four weeks later. i miss them both so so much.

here they are enjoying some grass together during outside time. ches is the ginger piggy, and maisie the black and white piggy.

 

[piggyfan]

Six years ago I got two ginger bundles, Amelia Jane and Peronel. Amelia Jane is still with me and she is now six. She is in my avatar.

 

[Treacle]

Back in the 1960's we had Smutt ( not sure who named him) he lived to the age of 5, was bedded on saw dust and ate lawn mowings, lived outside in all weathers! My next was Snipp, not very long lived. Then 'bad hair day' , who started guinea pig keeping in my adult life, she had 3 babies, as she was pregnant when she arrived with us. Blacky, Rusty and Patch. Blacky lived to be 8 years old, my longest lived piggy.

 

[kerry]

Back in the 1960's we had Smutt ( not sure who named him) he lived to the age of 5, was bedded on saw dust and ate lawn mowings, lived outside in all weathers! My next was Snipp, not very long lived. Then 'bad hair day' , who started guinea pig keeping in my adult life, she had 3 babies, as she was pregnant when she arrived with us. Blacky, Rusty and Patch. Blacky lived to be 8 years old, my longest lived piggy.

Its crazy looking back at how the guinea pigs of the early days survived. Like yours my first two lived outside in all weathers with straw and newspaper and ate limited veggies. I was about 6 years old and the internet was not a well know thing, they lived to a good age though. When I'm laying in bed worrying about my 4 being outside in their insulated hutch with all the bedding in the world i think back to the first two and how they survived

 

[Melanie07]

My first two were Joey and Chandy in 2006
They got on really well (they may have been sisters but I am not sure). They used to race around the living room and then have a lie down together underneath our feet by the sofa

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When Joey died, Chandy became very withdrawn and so we got her two new friends. Here is her with a baby Louie!

 

[Julie M]

Snowball was my first piggy I got him when I was about 16 (now I am 35) he was fully grown when I got him from my sisters friend. He was in a tiny cage to start with as that's what he came in. I bought him a bigger one a few days after I got him. I know his nails are long in this pic but I had only had him a couple of days. He lived till he was about 15years old. Miss u Snowball you were 1 in a million. Xx

 

[hattie.r]

Mine was Furbag ('Rocky' at the vets as Mum couldn't stand the shame of them calling out 'Furbag' in the waiting room!) I picked the only blak and white one out of 10+ brown and white ones, and she lived to the grand old age of nearly 7. Named because she liked to curl up and her Aby rosettes and mohawk made her look like a bag of fur (I was 7 and not terribly imaginative!) then we had:
Pip & Hazel, Rodney, Houdini & Splodge, then most recently Matthew Pancake, Salvador Dali & Theo.

 

[piglet_and_rogers_mama]

Such gorgeous pigs! Our first one was Piglet, who we still have! I can't believe he's almost 5! You can't really tell, but he's giving me kisses in this picture

 

[GuineaPigFan15]

My first piggies are the ones I currently have, Coconut and Hazelnut!

This is Hazelnut, enjoying some cuddles!

This is Coconut, tending to the "campfire", while lazy Hazelnut chills in her tent.

 

[Treacle]

Its crazy looking back at how the guinea pigs of the early days survived. Like yours my first two lived outside in all weathers with straw and newspaper and ate limited veggies. I was about 6 years old and the internet was not a well know thing, they lived to a good age though. When I'm laying in bed worrying about my 4 being outside in their insulated hutch with all the bedding in the world i think back to the first two and how they survived

My boss at work showed me a photo of her guinea pigs hutch a few winters ago. It was well insulated and covered but was also covered in snow!
It is not the cold which guineas don't like, it is damp and draughts . So good insulation and draught proofing is what they need, back in the 1960's we did not have insulation in our houses never mind the piggies. My bed room was above an open porch, and had two outside walls, it was the coldest room in the house. Central hearing was unheard of! We slept with woollies on, socks and hats even into the 1980's. In the 1990's I brought a nice new build! No draughts, central heating!

 

[kerry]

Mine was Furbag ('Rocky' at the vets as Mum couldn't stand the shame of them calling out 'Furbag' in the waiting room!) I picked the only blak and white one out of 10+ brown and white ones, and she lived to the grand old age of nearly 7. Named because she liked to curl up and her Aby rosettes and mohawk made her look like a bag of fur (I was 7 and not terribly imaginative!) then we had:
Pip & Hazel, Rodney, Houdini & Splodge, then most recently Matthew Pancake, Salvador Dali & Theo.

Was your Houdini named so because he was good at escaping? Ours used to be running around the patio and we had no idea how he done it because his brother would still be in the hutch :/

 

[kerry]

My boss at work showed me a photo of her guinea pigs hutch a few winters ago. It was well insulated and covered but was also covered in snow!
It is not the cold which guineas don't like, it is damp and draughts . So good insulation and draught proofing is what they need, back in the 1960's we did not have insulation in our houses never mind the piggies. My bed room was above an open porch, and had two outside walls, it was the coldest room in the house. Central hearing was unheard of! We slept with woollies on, socks and hats even into the 1980's. In the 1990's I brought a nice new build! No draughts, central heating!

Scary what us and our pets lived through and survived. We've all come a long way in terms of education when it comes to pets. My hutch at the moment is completely insulated and dry and draft free, I'm sure the first pigs of ours had a good cage but nowhere near as good as the current one

 

[Jess]

I had the most gorgeous long haired guinea pig called Max when I was growing up, I had to leave him behind at an animal sanctuary. I have only my memory of him, he had a gorgeous black face, white, ginger and black bottom. He always needed hair cuts... My second piggie as a child was also called Max; brown all over and a biter. Again no photos and my 3rd was called Maxine (the one I lost because I wasn't careful with her, I can't even remember much about her)

I only have two picture of Joey my 4th piggies



Now I take as many photos as possible

 

[katanamoon]

My first piggies that I shared with my brother were a pair of chocolate himis called Tiddley-Poos (named by my brother as that was exactly what she did on his lap the first time he held her) and Perdita (because I loved 101 Dalmations - you can tell we were young!). Perdy lived to about 3 and was replaced by Skippy - another chocolate himi. Tiddles lived to about 6 or 7 I think. I can't remember about Skippy.

 

[Bruschnazzy]

My first was Pumba. He was spotted by one of my grandparent's neighbors outside in the alley. In the middle of Winter! So, we went out and tried to catch him. Which was super easy, as he came right out for carrots! I'm sure he was hungry! He lived with us for 3 years until he passed away.

Sadly, when I was younger I would make my images very small for a forum, so they all are little like this.

 

[Honey West]

My baby girl Valerie. Seriously the best piggy ever. She was a bit of a loner, but very dominant. My girls Cookie and Trixie loved her. She was such a free spirit, and thought she ran our household..lol. her cage door was never shut and she never ever caused any major trouble. I definitely spoiled her and loved her to peices. Sadly after a long and content life, we lost her last November :-( it was one of the worst moments of my life. It crushed my two other girls as well, they spent weeks searching for her. But when I think of her, which is often, I try and remember that I went out of my way to let her know how loved she was and I know she knew it.