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Post by yodelpig on Sept 7, 2009 13:17:31 GMT
Hello everbody and everypig! I am originally from Switzerland (hence my username), but live now in the the West Midlands in Britain. I grew up with guinea pigs and have come back to having them again five years ago. My piggies have all Welsh names, despite being from different rescues. Llewelyn (spoken tkhloo-EH-len) was actually rescued in Wales, he's a very busy neutered boar nowadays and doesn't take any stick from any of his girls! (English) Nerys and Nia are locally born teddy sisters and joined me in May. They were unloved, unhandled children's pets with razor sharp baby claws and have turned into lovely pets. My abby Taffy was part of a big rescue in June in Scotland. I had a long wait until she was ready to make the journey from her fosterer with her rescue born daughter Tegan. She is now ten weeks old. Taffy is still VERY skittish. I have just introduced all my piggies successfully over the weekend. Here they are: Nerys - Llewelyn - Taffy - Tegan - Nia  |
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Post by newpig on Sept 7, 2009 13:19:47 GMT
Talk about matching piggys! They are all gorgeous. Welcome to the forum. Would be great if you would start a thread in Meet the Pigs for them with lots more pics.
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Post by yodelpig on Sept 7, 2009 13:26:12 GMT
Thanks!
I know; but apart from Taffy (who followed me into my dreams) they just happened!
And i am NOT planning on completing my UK squad with a pig from Northern Ireland!!!
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Post by Pigjes on Sept 7, 2009 14:25:16 GMT
Welcome!!  You have lovely piggies!!! Watch out for the next cavy comic, this coming Saturday, you will love this one, I hope. I has to do with yodeling  |
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Post by newpig on Sept 7, 2009 14:28:52 GMT
He he I hadn't even thought of that Yodelpig! Mind you first of all it would stop me taking in any more but also there are none in any shelters at the moment. Moo has been trying to find some for a few weeks and had real trouble. A few of us have been looking out for piggys for her and just none were around until she got her two boys. We don't seem to have the issues of over piggy population here that they do on Mainland, they don't even appear that often on the free ad sites.
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Post by 3piggles on Sept 7, 2009 14:34:48 GMT
Hello and welcome. You're herd is beautiful. It is cool how they match yet all come from different herds in different places.
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Post by yodelpig on Sept 7, 2009 15:48:45 GMT
Thanks everybody for your warm welcome!
I am sorry to hear about moo; I was looking for a girl or two for months in my region (with one failed introduction of a freshly rescued piggy) before I stumbled upon Nerys and Nia on a RSPCA webpage.
As soon as I had adopted them, there were lots of girls popping up all over the place all of a sudden!!!
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Post by gogoplant2 on Sept 7, 2009 20:19:45 GMT
Cute piggies. And Welcome to Wheekers! I like to fuzzy-headed pigger all the way to the right. Nia seems to be the name. THat's funny how the three middle ones all match.
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Post by mom2 on Sept 8, 2009 20:03:28 GMT
Welcome. They are all so pretty and happy looking.
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Post by pplprincess5480 on Sept 9, 2009 17:22:28 GMT
Hi Yodelpig, you have a very cute line up there. Welcome to Wheekers x
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Post by Nia on Sept 10, 2009 3:08:09 GMT
Nia is a cool name.  |
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Post by yodelpig on Sept 10, 2009 14:11:48 GMT
Yeah - I thought so as well, and had to smile when I saw your name on here!
Did you know that it means "bright" (Welsh form of Irish Niamh)?
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Post by Fidly on Sept 12, 2009 1:39:19 GMT
You're piggies are adorable!!!(:
Where do you get them from?
Do you like write a adoption application online?
I was planning to adopt a piggie possibly.
Because I am not gonna buy one.(:
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Post by Nia on Sept 12, 2009 3:30:19 GMT
Yeah - I thought so as well, and had to smile when I saw your name on here! Did you know that it means "bright" (Welsh form of Irish Niamh)? Haha, really? No I didn't know that! I didn't even know that it was Welsh. Guess you learn something every day.  |
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Post by yodelpig on Sept 12, 2009 17:34:10 GMT
Going for Welsh names, means I prefer the pronounceable ones! Llewelyn (who got his name at the rescue) was bad enough, as my husband insisted on the proper pronounciation!!! The irony is that he calls every single one simply "guinea pig"...  |
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Post by Fidly on Sept 21, 2009 20:14:23 GMT
Same here!
Except my family does that, lol!)
Once I told my dad to open a pack of frozen corn, and hes like
"For who is this?"
I said "Eye-I!"
He's like who the heck is Eye-I?
I'm like Idly!
Lol, thats my piggie!
xD
Pretty unique names though.
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If I start saying bizzare food-related things, one of the girls has probably taken over the keyboard. 
