You Know You Are Completely Owned By Your Piggies When...

[Flutterby]

So tell me, when do you know you are completely owned by your piggies?

For me it's when I make a lovely colourful food rota on the computer for the piggies and pin it up on the fridge to tell me what they are having on what days of the week!

 

[katie-elizabeth]

When you only have time in the mornings to either give the piggies breakfast or have breakfast yourself, of course you choose the piggies!

 

[Flutterby]

Haha that's a good one!

 

[Katherine]

When you don't even like going out for the day because of leaving them, and at intervals you turn to each other and say "I hope the squeakers are alright". Then when you get home, you open the door and call "Guineas, I'm back!" and rush in to see how they are.

 

[Flutterby]

Haha I am always clock watching on the way home thinking 'hurry up traffic this is time the piggies could be out playing!'

 

[nicky]

Mine have their veg tea at five so if we are out and they are late getting it I panic thinking about there little faces up at the bars waiting.

 

[sport_billy]

The first thing on shopping list is 'Food for Them'

 

[Flutterby]

When you go into work on your lunch break just to go to the veg shop for the piggies!

 

[Teejay]

For me it's when I make a lovely colourful food rota on the computer for the piggies and pin it up on the fridge to tell me what they are having on what days of the week!

Yep....done that! In fact, looking at the replies.....done them all!

 

[Flutterby]

Me too! Apart from I don't make shopping lists but their stuff it always at the top in my mind

 

[katanamoon]

Going without a certain salad or vegetable item for dinner because there's only enough for the piggies...

 

[Flutterby]

Haha owned!

 

[gus+walter]

When your work bonus goes on treats, toys and new pretty fleeces for the piglingtons.

 

[Nicola_]

When you really want a lazy pyjama day in but get yourself up and dressed just to go buy them veggies!

 

[Julesie]

Recently, when I get up early to feed the piggies, an alarm set for them because their dinner time was changed from their usual time after being away for a bit and then go straight back to bed once I know they have their veggies. Their food time is back to 11am rather than 8am now.

When you are away and the only thing you missed was the guinea pigs. Not your family (so sorry!), not my computer or games or the house/area but just the piggies.

When you spend more on the piggies than you do on yourself. I really want a figure of a character I adore but I won't let myself buy it. Its £40 but I will happily spend far more on the piggies without thought because its for them.

 

[nicky]

Just thought brought them an outside run then realised we had no where to store it.After not been able to find a suitable sized and waterproof outside box for it we have had one made it is coming tomorrow.I have had the same horrible curtains up at my lounge windows since we moved in nearly ten years ago.The cost of this box would have brought a really good pair!

 

[Flutterby]

When your routine revolves around them!

 

[Tim]

When you look in the shopping basket and realise most of the food in there is for them!

 

[Flutterby]

Haha done that!

When the pigs nails clippers are better than yours!

 

[Frankie1990]

When you spend more time on this forum than on Facebook..

 

[Flutterby]

Bwahahaha!

 

[nicky]

When the outdoor box arrives and you realise with horror that its that big it could house a small family!

 

[Flutterby]

But you secretly plan how much more piggy stuff you could put in it!

 

[nicky]

Lol have already been and got some new toys. Just to give you an idea of its size we have a wooden picnic table and its bigger then that.I can hardly lift the lid

 

[Flutterby]

Oh dear, you'll have to develop a pully system, or get air lift hinges

 

[allcreaturesbigandsmall]

because they are in your room your afraid to make a noise incase you disturb them and when you accidently make a loud noise you automatically turn to them and say how sorry you are

 

[TallKaren]

I'm in the process of selling my house at the moment so it's had to be de-guineapigged. Most of their stuff has taken up all the room in the understairs cupboard, I like to think it shows the space available! When I was clearing up with my mum she kept tsking that I was doing the piggies lunch, putting them outside and giving them more hay. Apparently I wasn't focused on the task in hand

Also I do miss them whilst I'm away each week. Going to start putting pics up at work. Everyone has their children and partners so I'm going to display my little family.

PS If anyone wants to buy a house in the same county as the cat and rabbit clinic let me know!

 

[Holly_Bramble]

1. You get there breakfast before you get your own.
2. You turn over TV shows you really wanted to watch because they chatter there teeth.
3. Your constantly being asked by people if you have a dog because there's hair all over you.
4. If people come to your house and comment even slightly on your Pig parenting you kick them out.
5. If someone ever said its me or the Pig you'd say bye to them straight away.
6. Half your living room isn't yours anymore.
7. You can't buy anymore clothes because your wardrobe is full of Hay and Pig Pellets.
8. If its a choice of you having dinner tonight or them you know your having a Pot Noodle.
9. You find ridiculous ways of bringing them up in conversation.
10. You get Guinea Pig accessories and treats of everyone for Christmas.
11. You then throw away all these treats because there not nutritiously good enough for your furry babies.
12. One squeak at 4am and your awake and having floor time in a flash.
13. Sunday mornings are allowing your Pig in bed days.
14. Did I say sunday morning? I mean't every morning.
15. There your background on your phone. Not your boyfriend.
16. You have 1,037 photos of them to date which all look exactly the same to everyone else.
17. You actually have full conversation with them.
18. As soon as you type a G into google it automatically knows your about to type Guinea Pigs.
19. The sound of a water bottle rattle doesn't even register with you but drives everyone else in your house mental.
20. Your genuinely saving up to have a Guinea Pig tattooed on your body.

I don't have a problem though. Honest.

 

[Patch & Pi]

1)We get woken at sunrise by the girls yelling (from the garden) for breakfast, And we get up
2)they also have a shelf in the fridge and freezer for treats and cooling pads.
3)my Bro and Dad when pet sitting spent a weekend "pimping out" the hutch, It will now survive a hurricane, even though they come in if the weather takes a turn!
4) my entire family buy them treats, (even my deadly allergic bro when he comes to visit, he has taught them tricks lil monkeys have him under the paw, he ends up taking enough antihistamine to sink a ship)
5) that they have better hair brushes, shampoo then the rest of the family.
6) that they have a better selection of salad then the house.
7) when I called my other half and Dad to say Pi was sick today and it was going to cost several hundred pounds and both offered to pay, no questions.
8) your 2 year old nephew spends hours sat on the floor in the garden chatting with them (even if he thinks they are mickey mouse)
9) we are buying a house around the piggies needs.

 

[Flutterby]

Oh my those are lists! Love them!