Sunday, March 2, 2008

PA-Judge's Park-Many Pigs

Judge's Park, PA: Many Pigs! This rescue is located in Edinburg.

ADOPTED! Henry is a shorthair piggie bonded with Martin, and he is about a year old. The poor boy is a survivor of the hoarder surrender (150 pigs living in a shed under squalor conditions). Despite his initial conditions, he is a calm piggie who loves attention and has a great attention. Henry has some physical scars from living in such terrible conditions, but no other manifestations of his upbringing.



ADOPTED! Martin is one year old and absolutely gorgeous. He can be a bit skittish at first, and so will benefit from some more socialization in his forever home, but once he's in the lap he "is just a mush," to quote from his bio. Martin is bonded with Henry, and so the two boys must be adopted together.

ADOPTED! Nelson is a year old and "gorgeous and sweet to boot!!" Apparently this beautiful piggy loves to be held and adores cuddling. And Nelson embodies one of the rarest of piggy traits--he doesn't get along with other piggies. Nelson would do best as an only pig, leaving him plenty of time to curl up with his person.


ADOPTED! Rocket is a ten month old crested male. Due to his youth he is wonderfully high energy, though a bit skittish until in the lap. Once secure in your arms he is calm and adores to be pet. He will surely settle down as he gets older. Rocket must be adopted with Jet, his bonded buddy.



ADOPTED!Jett is a one year old boy who is bonded with Rocket. Between the two of them he is very much the calm one, though because of his young age he is still a bit skittish. The director of Judge's Park thinks that both pigs will grow up to be very calm, and says that they are very sweet boys even now. He loves to be pet onces in your lap.

Snickers is a one year old long haired Silkie pig. He is black and brown with one white foot. He is very high energy and can be a bit skittish (he may not have had much handling in the past), but this changes once he's in the lap. Then he becomes much calmer, and he loves to be held and pet. He should settle down with socialization and age. He is paired with Doodle, below, and is the calmer of the two. What a beautiful pair!

Doodle is a piggy with some roaning in his fur, which I recently wrote about in this post when discussing the dangers of br33ding roan pigs. Doodle is one year old, and more high energy than his other half, Snickers. He can be skittish and may not have had much handling before entering the rescue. He does calm down once being pet, but sometimes he still gets scared. Because of this, the rescue recommends he have a "gentle, quiet and patient handler." The rescue also recommends that ideally Snickers and Doodle (cute :) should "probably should go to a home with adults only or older/quiet children." Sounds like a smart plan for this pair.

Stay tuned for a follow up post on how you can help the guinea pigs of Judge's Park.


PA-Piggie Lovers Inc. Guinea Pig Rescue-Full Herd Lineup

Piggie Lovers Inc. Guinea Pig Rescue, PA: Many pigs!

Immediately below please find all the piggies of this Latrobe, PA based rescue, and then two featured piggies who just joined the ranks of these lucky piggie kids!
ADOPTED! Picture of Hamlet & Rothbart Hamlet & Rothbart &ADOPTED! Picture of Hercules & Zeus Hercules & Zeus & ADOPTED! Picture of Chester & Milton Chester & Milton & ADOPTED! Picture of Madame Mim Madame Mim & ADOPTED! Picture of Eleanor Eleanor & ADOPTED! Picture of Cronus Cronus & ADOPTED! Picture of Fudolou & Fudzmo Fudolou & Fudzmo & ADOPTED! Picture of Gabriella & Gertru Gabriella & ADOPTED! Picture of Glenda & Norma Jea Glenda & Norma Jean & Picture of Duchess & Marie Duchess & Marie & ADOPTED! Picture of Templeton & Ludo Templeton & Ludo & Picture of Rex Rex & Picture of Ash Ash & Picture of Roxy & Ivy Roxy & Ivy & ADOPTED! Picture of Dumbledore Dumbledore &ADOPTED! Picture of Hades Hades & ADOPTED! Picture of Boobits & Hagrid Boobits & Hagrid & .



Boobits and Hagrid
are two bonded adult males. Boobits is on the left, and Hagrid is on the right; both pigs are around two and a half years old and big for any piggies age! PLGPR describes them as "adorable and chubby and...the perfect lap piggies." They both love being held and will lounge out and watch movies. They love to eat and never fight. They will call out for more food though!

Boobits is very curious and will get on his hind legs to sniff for food. PLGPR calls this Prarie Dogging, which I've never heard before and am now going to use all the time, because I love it.

Hagrid loves lady piggies, so I would make sure only spayed girls are in the house! He sounds like a persistant guy--climbing on pigloos even to get the best view of any lady pigs sauntering by during floor time.


These two pigs sound like wonderful snugglers and cuddlers and entertaining as well. What a perfect set of boys!


PA-Craigslist-Guinea brothers

*If responding to a Craigslist ad meet in a public place, or go with a friend. Google the phone number of the poster to
ensure it matches the name he or she gives *


LISTING REMOVED. Thorndale, PA: A neat moment for me. This poster was originally offering the guinea pigs for free, and I sent him/her my form letter. S/he's now asking for $20 dollars and they revised the listing to include my letter. Cool! But, off the topic of my ego: two guinea pig brothers being rehomed due to a move (and some slightly too interested dogs). They come with a cage, food, cedar chips, and vitamin supplements (red=toxic and should not be used).


NY-Craigslist-Six month old abby

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ensure it matches the name he or she gives *

LISTING REMOVED. Selden, NY: Though I have sympathy for the poster of this ad, I don't think s/he is treating the guinea pig s/he is rehoming very fairly. Basically his bonded pair died, and the poster is so distraught s/he can't deal with losing another pet, so s/he is rehoming Truffles (remaining pig) on CL for a too small fee. Though s/he does have high standards for the adopter, Truffles may be going through a severe depression himself by losing his cagemate, and a more calculated rehoming than CL should be done in such a circumstance. Guinea pigs are capable of dying from depression, as they stop eating and drinking. If you adopt Truffles, please don't do so as a single pig.

Truffles is six months old, well socialized to people, and used to a C&C cage. The poster offers continued help after the adoption, which is a very generous of him or her. My condolences to the poster, but I encourage other people in his or her situation to use sites such as GuineaLynx, Guinea Pig Home, or Guinea Pig Adoption Network. These sites are better populated by guinea knowledgeable owners or will be owners.

ETA: My apologies, the poster is also utilizing these sites. I'm going to leave up the links however so other people can benefit from them.


Saturday, March 1, 2008

NJ-Guinea Pig Home-Three Sows

Lindenhurst, NJ: as appearing on Guinea Pig Home--three six month old sister pigs being rehomed due to allergies. All three enjoys being held and loved, and are well socialized to people and children. They are not skittish. Laverne is tricolored (brown, white and fawn) and sweet; Shirly is mostly white with some light and darker brown, as well as very friendly, and Pinky is primarily brown with some white markings.


PA-Craigslist-Two Listings

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ensure it matches the name he or she gives *

LISTING REMOVED. Penn State, PA: Well poor pig, but of benefit to of the person who adopts him is that he comes with this C&C cage, as well a water bottle, food dish, food, hay, and bedding. The guinea is a boy and ten months old. He is "well tempered" and has never bitten anyone. Being rehomed because the guinea pig doesn't get enough attention. Get him a friend when you adopt him!

POST DELETED. Mt. Lebanon, PA: Reasonable rehoming fee for white pig with ruby eyes and black ears. Loves to cuddle and eat veggies. Doesn't get enough veggies in current home. Comes with cage, food, and other accessories.


NY-Craigslist-Two thought to be girls

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ensure it matches the name he or she gives *

LISTING REMOVED Elmira, NY: Child loses interest and so they're being dumped. Both are thought to be female, they have a suspicious eggplant shape. One is a shorthair, one is an abby. Come with all accessories. Person who posted the ad sucks.


NJ-Craigslist-young boar

* If responding to a Craigslist ad meet in a public place, or go with a friend. Google the phone number of the poster to
ensure it matches the name he or she gives *

LISTING REMOVED North Jersey, NJ: Brown and black guinea boy being rehomed due to move. One year old, very friendly. Reasonable rehoming fee includes cage, new water bottle, food, and bedding.


NY-Lollpop Farm in Fairport-Review and new pigs

Lollypop Farm in Fairport, NY: Sylvia, Nutterbutters, Flash, and Satch!

Once again, proof that I'm not lying when I say the Lollypop Guild gets some of the most precious GPs in the country:

LISTING REMOVED. Sylvia is--a girl, and that's all they're saying!




LISTING REMOVED. Nutterbutters is a one year old female:


LISTING REMOVED. Flash is an eight month old male:



LISTING REMOVED. Satch is a one year old one month male:

GUINEA PIG LESSON: Satch has a very beautiful element to his fur called roaning. One of many reasons why I'm against br33ding (and why this blog does not support br33ding), is because if a roan pig is br3d with with a roan pig (or if a dal pig, another br33d, is br3d with a dal pig), there is a one in four chance a lethal pig will be born. Lethal pigs are very, very special needs, if they live more than a few days. Please don't ever br33d your pigs, as there is a high chance of fatality for the mother. But if you have a pig with white fur and some black spots (a dal pig), or black markings such as Satch, please, please don't br33d them. Your pig may create a blind, deaf pig with no teeth who relies on you for care. And with so many hundreds of homeless pigs, why br33d in the first place?

GUINEA PIG LESSON FOR ME! Thank you to a friend of mine on GuineaLynx who pointed out a very significant error in the above lesson. Roaning is not just black mixed through with white, but any color mixed through with white in a similar pattern to Satch's. Thank you GL friend! GL is a place where you continually learn more and more about GPigs. I encourage anyone who has guinea pigs, or is considering getting guinea pigs, to join.


Friday, February 29, 2008

PA/NJ-Have-A-Heart Guinea Pig Rescue-Hundreds of pigs

Have-A-Heart Guinea Pig Rescue, PA/NJ/DE: Many guinea pigs!

I'll level with you. Since returning to AAGP, I have been spending less time on the blogs, and much less time on updating old links to say when a guinea pig has been adopted or a listing has been removed. It's really hard to keep up with all the pigs of H-a-H, as they have so many tremendously wonderful guinea pigs, so I'm going to have to throw in the towel with updating their old links. Instead every week or so I'll just do a new status update of who is where. Hope that works out for everyone. And sorry for you Delaware folk, but once they cross that state line, they're out of my jurisdiction.

PA Girls: Molly & Autumn, Squash, and Acorn & Bashful and Callie & Buttercup and Brownie & Sylvia, Wheels, and Whippet & Apricot and Marigold & Cookie, Sugerpie and Princess & Willow & Minnie Mouse and Rachael Ray & .



PA Boys: GreyBee, Chalie, and Palomino & Maurey and Slugger & Duke & Al & Abraham & Junior and Tiger & DJ & Bernie & Buster and Benji & Turbo & Humphrey & Pops and Corn & John and Kamil & Hatch & Jalopy and Lamore & Charlie and Johnnie & PC and Reebox & Sammy and Mickey Mouse & .



JERsEy gIrLs * Holly and Mistletoe * Ginny, Brownbear, and Wolverina * PiggleWiggle and Brown * Jezzabelle * Tina and Trina * Abigal, Spatz, Junie * Leah * Kay * Maxine and Juliet * Lovey and Cottonball * Jolene * Janet and Chrissy * Gingersnap and Tigera * Felice and Gucci * Evita, Somona, and Gwenith * Ebbi, Farina, and Sally * Dorothy and Mia * Bear and Sherri * Alice, Betsy and Claire * Violet * Toodle, Maze and May * Squash, Blossom and Penelope * Snowflake * Smores * Peppi, Piper and Pammy * Miss Piggy * Moona and Annabella * Poinsettia * Nola *


Jersey Boys * Phil and Buddy * Korey * Cheech and Bonus * Richie * Buddy * Hunter * Oliver and Simon * Levi * Rascal and Clover * Chip * Spongebob * Kingston and Carmel * Jitterbug * Harley and Edwin * Doze * Doozer and Jake * Diaz * Coffee and Donut * Big Boy * BeeBee * Beau and Levon * Bandit and Big Daddy * Alvin * Aden and Bane *Alex and Grover * Wally * Tyson * Tumbles * Trooper * Toby and Felix * Squidwird * Squeek and Mouser * Speedy and Rocket * Santa and Claus * Ralph * Puff and Deamo * Piper * Piglet and Eeyore * Ninja Baby and Happy Cow * Moby *



Jersey Girl and Boy # Bubbles and Teddy #




NY-Massena Humane Society-young long haired pig

Massena Humane Society, NY: LISTING REMOVED. Romeo! His bio has no picture, but he is described as a eight month old beautiful and very friendly long haired guinea pig.

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NY-Life Long Tails-Young Female

Life Long Tails, NY: ADOPTED! Gracie!

Gracie is an absolutely beautiful girl guinea who is a year to a year and half old. She is a quick mover who was surrendered due to allergies. She wishes to be adopted with Lona (who I imagine will be posted shortly). By the by, her eyes aren't actually red, that's just the flash on the rescue's camera.


NY-A New Leash on Life-Bonded senior? young? males

A New Leash on Life, NY: ADOPTED! Milo and Biscuits!

Two very bonded boys who need you to fill their bowl and get them in a larger cage! They are described in their bio as the very "best of buddies." What confuses me as they're listed under the Petfinder categories as "adults," but it says they're five years old. Maybe they mean five months? Because five years is solidly senior. I'm putting them down as both senior and young. Including this note from their bio: "When writing about one of our pets, please include your location as we do have distance restrictions and they vary depending on the pet's needs."


Thursday, February 28, 2008

NJ-Bergen County Animal Shelter-Adult Male

Bergen County Animal Shelter, NJ: WITH A RESCUE! Kirri!

Kirri Boy:


Let me quote the bio: "Kirri was turned in because the family's ferret wasn't getting along with him. He seems friendly." THE HELL? You mean the ferret wasn't trying to EAT HIM? If this guinea pig is friendly after an attempted bonding with a ferret and then being dumped in a shelter, I'd say you have a winner and a keeper. Rescue this boy and give him a forever home.