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Chinese facebook group: Cavy Society of the World

January 26, 2010 by charity   Comments (2)

And I quote:

 

The association which is a crowd deeply loves the cavy composes, the cavy is call guinea pig, or call “kui mouse” (Hong Konger, Taiwanese and Japanese), the Dutch pig(Mainland Chinese) and so on. They lovable tame, is humanity's good partner, everybody shares info and happy together!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=39786871671&ref=search&sid=670902347.2070572516..1

think my guinea pig is overdue...

December 16, 2009 by HeidiRuth   Comments (3)

i put my guinea pig with a male on 22nd of Oct but she hasnt had her litter yet. should we be concerned? she doesnt seem to be in destress. its her second litter. her first litter was normal. can anyone give me some advice? thanks

For Sale...

September 2, 2009 by JCD's Caviary   Comments (0)

I am no longer going to do TSW peruvians and have some nice texel boars that will be showable, but I just don't have the time to coat them all out to show.

2 mm TSW peruvian jr boars out of Eliza/Dylan litter, almost full pedigree  http://cavysociety.com/society/pg/photos/view/1882/mm-tsw-boar http://cavysociety.com/society/pg/photos/view/1885/mm-tsw-boar

2 cream/white texel jr boars out of Heather/Saturn litter, almost full pedigree   http://cavysociety.com/society/pg/photos/view/1787/heres-the-topside-off-all-four-boars 

I am also parting with...

Thunderhill's Dylan, mm tsw peruvian senior boar, proven breeder, full pedigree

Thunderhill's Buster, mm tsw peruvian senior boar, proven breeder, full pedigree

Pets......

JCD's Jade, mm TSW peruvian mix int sow, proven breeder and great mother, partial pedigree

JCD's Sid, black/white peruvian mix int boar, sibling to Jade, partial pedigree

JCD's Unnamed, black/white van peruvian jr boar, from Jade/Buster litter, partial pedigree  http://cavysociety.com/society/pg/photos/view/2186/jades-blackwhite-van-boar

I am located in SE MN.  E-mail me at beallegree @ yahoo . com

Thanks,

~Christy~

www.freewebs.com/christysprettypiggies

"G-Force" Movie Review . . . But First A Brief Introduction!

July 28, 2009 by annie   Comments (2)

Hello!
I just joined this site, but am active on another site in YahooGroups, GabbingAboutPiggies.  I've been a piggie owner, or should I say that I've been owned by piggies for about four years now.  I have two boyz, Angus MacDonald (American Silver Agouti) and Piper "Pip" MacGregor II (American Red-Eyed Orange Silky).  Sadly, Piper the 1st (American Diluted Agouti) had to be put down on January 15th of this year due to congestive heart failure.  It was devastating.  Approximately two weeks after loosing Piper, I adopted Pip, and he truly lives up to his name!  I live in New Jersey near the Jersey Shore and it's currently hot as hades here with the stiffling humidity.  Yikes!
But enough about me.  Now for the movie review!                                                                                                                                            
On Sunday, July 26th, I went to see "G-Force" in 3-D.  It was a very cute movie.  Overall, I really enjoyed it.  Darwin was my favorite character.  For those of you who are fans of the "Indiana Jones" movies, there's a throw away line spoken by Darwin that pays an homage to the first Indy movie.  Fans of Bill Nighy will really like his role in this movie.  I know I did.  It's not all that large, but what there is, he's great! 
 
The action in "G-Force" is good and the pace keeps moving well.  There really aren't any slow moments.  Sometimes in movies like this, the humor seems to be forced, but in this one, the humor comes from the situations the G-Force team find themselves in.
 
The animators did a phenonenal job on getting the piggies just right, with Darwin, in my opinion, being the best (which is why he's my favorite).  Their little mouths were just so adorable the way they were animated.  Whoever worked on the piggie animation certainly did their cavy anatomy and movement homework, with the exception of course, that these piggies stand up straight for a good portion of the movie.
 
For all piggie people, I do recommend this movie for its entertainment value.
 
Now, from a practical piggie owner's perspective, here's what I took away from this movie that people who saw it and will now want piggies may take away from it (I may be overthinking this here, but this is how I see it):
 
1.  Piggies use exercise wheels (one quick scene in the pet store).
2.  Piggies are tough and recover quickly when dropped . . . hard.
3.  Piggies swim in deep water.
4.  Piggies use exercicse balls (one scene when they're using the balls as transportation . . . even though they're sitting and "driving," it may still send the wrong message).
5.  You can put makeup on piggies (lipstick and nail polish).
6.  Piggies can be placed in motorized model cars and jump objects in demolition daredevil fashion.
7.  Piggies can eat cake.
 
Anyone else see the movie?  If so, what did you think and did you have the same concerns from a piggie owner's view?
 
annie, Pip & Angus (who both fell in love with Juarez)

Photo contest for pet lovers with prizes

June 29, 2009 by JCD's Caviary   Comments (0)

Got this from GabbingAboutPiggies yahoo group and figured I would share....

Hi guys,

I have organized photo contest "Most photogenic pets" for pet lovers around the world and found sponsors for it. You can join competition, upload pet photo and get t-shirts, pillows or wall calendars offered by cafepress.com. The photos will be voted on by the community. You can ask your friends to support your photo with votes. You can join contest here: http://pets- area.com/ index.php? option=com_ photos&view= contest&id= 2

Wish you good luck.
Olesya

Still working on the front page photo thing

April 12, 2009 by charity   Comments (0)

Right now you can upload small photos. Sort of like a "photo shout-out" if you will. I am working on it so that when you double click, it shows up full size andyou could even scroll through all photos at full size.  Right now, you just get a darkened background and a spinning thing :-)

If you get stuck - just refresh the page and it will go away.

New photos capability

April 10, 2009 by charity   Comments (3)

You can now upload photos into photo albums, and also comment on them (like facebook). You can get there directly through the "Tools" menu on the site toolbar, and also you can add the photo album widget on your profile. The file limit is huge at the moment but I need to think about server space, so I may have to decrease that limit in the future.

This is so...

April 9, 2009 by Darcy Pierce   Comments (1)

...AWESOME! Now you guys need to make a cavy forum! ;-)

 

 

How much money to spend on the specialty...

April 9, 2009 by charity   Comments (0)

I am somewhat amazed that a hotel room in Lancaster, PA is costing $143 a night. What do you get?? Someone to sponge you off in the shower??

I am renting a cargo van to the tune of $50 a day, plus any taxes/fees... then there is gas, tolls, FOOD... This is turning into a $500 trip pretty easily!