Guinea Pigs Wearing Hats

BuzzFeed has posted a nice selection of 30 guinea pigs wearing hats! Well, so they did not do such a good job or identifying all the animals involved so there is also a rabbit and hamster, but they are still cute too!

Here are a couple of  my favorites:

Yellow Bonnet:

From ohbeehiveblog

Where did you go?

From http://d2nxvnj9b2h8rk.cloudfront.net

King me!

From CuteOverload

Cowboy hat:

From Buzzfeed

straw hat:

From cutiepiecuriosities

Now this one made me laugh – the guinea pig has nail polish on!

From Tumblr

Check out BuzzFeed to see the rest of the adorable pictures!

Sorry for the lack of posting recently, my internet has been strange and one of my guinea pigs had surgery and needs lots of care. Maybe I will post about that once we are through the really hard part.

Guinea Pig Costume

I have had dreams since I was much younger of having a guinea pig costume. Well, my mom could not sew and I knew no one who would be willing to help me design one once I was old enough to start really caring about having a cool costume for Halloween costume contests. I still do not have such skills and have only ever purchased costumes from stores.

Today I found this video:

I do not know what “The Magic Cuy” is, because the actual commerical is not in english,  but I think the costume is amazing!

Here are some of the commercials I believe the costume was made for (not in English):

I would love to be able to have such skills in at least crafting the lower half of a guinea pig costume. I would not make a mechanical head because that would be impossibly difficult for me and I think it would be overly expensive for a Halloween costume. The company that I believe made the costume has created a lot of other animal and creature costumes for different commercial use.

Guinea Pig Problems

The first guinea pig I had never injured herself in all the time I had her. Now, after having my 2 guinea pigs for 7 months they both injured themselves over the course of a couple days. We had two trips to the vet last week, and will have a follow up trip this week.

Fizz broke her back middle toenail on her left foot and had to have it removed at the vets. I have no idea how she did it, but I wish I did so I could prevent her from doing it again. Here you can see she only has two out of three claws on her back foot.

Here she is recovering happily:

Cola got a large piece of hay stuck in her eye and scratched her cornea. We have to put medicated gel in her eye three times a day. You can see her partially closed eye on the left side.

She is now doing much better and the eye is almost fully open. Here she is begging for food.

There are wonderful forums online if you ever need to know if a medical problem with a guinea pig is an emergency or requires vet care. It is always better to take your pet to a vet’s office should you suspect there is something wrong with them.

Please see Guinea Lynx for wonderful health information.

Caplin Rous We Will Miss You

I have followed Caplin Rous the Capybara on his website, gianthamster.com, for about a year now. Unfortunately Caplin passed away at the beginning of this month. I know that I will miss you Caplin, and I wish your owner and all who loved you the very best.

Here is Caplin, next to the stuffed version of him:

If you do not know about Caplin Rous I encourage you to check out gianthamster.com and see a life well lived by a Capybara. He was a wonderful ambassador for his kind, and I enjoyed seeing the world from his point of view.

If you want to help Caplin’s owner out with his final medical expenses, or just to give money to a charity for medical care for Capybaras please visit Capybara Madness where you can donate, or purchase Capycoppies (the stuffed Caplin in the above photo) and calanders.

From everyone here at Puppy Bunny Guinea Pretty – we miss you Caplin!

Here is my guinea family with our Capycoppy:

Cola and Capy

Fizz and Capy

Capy

My New Guinea Pigs!

Hello everyone, sorry for the lack of posts due to the busy holiday season! But I would like to introduce you all to my two new guinea pigs!

This is Cola:

This is Fizz:

I have had them now for a little over three weeks and they are starting to warm up very well to people and their new environment.

I have a nice two level cage made out of metal grids and coroplast plastic bins. For bedding I use fleece with layers of towels under it. Here is a picture:

I ordered this cage on ebay, but you can easily make your own especially if you can make use of a lot more space in your home so that you do not need to have two levels. To find out more information on C and C cages, check out guinepigcages.com. This site provides lots of information about materials, how to get them, pictures of cages, and good how to tips.

I have a pen to put them in for floor time, complete with plenty of tubes to run through:

Hope that everyone enjoys the last day of 2010!