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That's Eloise, my sweet little Skinny pig. She & her brothers were born at our place. Skinny pigs are hairless guinea pigs. There's the father on my album too I believe, Pinkerton. He's all pink, hence his name.

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Well, that’s a new one on me.
Back in the 1970’s I kept a colony of guinea pigs in a big shed in the garden with a huge wire run adjoining.

I also kept Shelties, Peruvian long haired & Abyssinian.

I must have developed my cavy interest from my aunt Phythian whose animals were reknown for their quiet & placid nature.
Her first name was Dymnpha , the tragically beautiful Irish Princess

Aunt Phythian ‘s husband Algernon had a massive heart attack , leaving her a widow with 17 children to care for, all girls.

The shock of uncle Algernon’s sudden death & the realisation that she’d never have a boy now , resulted in her hair going white, then falling out altogether.
An ingenious solution was close to hand, she simply trained some of her better long haired Peruvian cavies to sit motionless on her head, sometimes for hours on end.

This little ruse was a great success, gaining many compliments from her fellow cavy keepers & looks of incredulity from the more streetwise folk.

Bless her, for when she discovered that her most used pet “Florian” suffered from vertigo. She abandoned her ruse & began to appear quite bald in public.

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I thought it was a guinea pig, but one with a skin condition that you'd rescued AC, sorry! I must admit I never knew there were naturally hairless ones.

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Bit late in the thread maybe but Yeah AC - what about your animals whadyagot, eh-eh-eh?? Luv piccies of pigs, chickens 'n all that - really! stevmk2

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Go to my profile Steve. My photo album on the right is called A Little Bit of our Sanctuary. There's about 45 pics there, lol.
We have more critters including 4 groups of rats but I figured the site might collapse if I included everyone
Take care

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Well learn something new everyday I admit I thought you had a clangers ! Anyone remember them ?

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I remember them well Julie, especially the soup dragon. A friend of ours was a police sergeant and for some reason we christened him sergeant soup dragon, he´s still referred to by that name

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Clangers? lol

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So you are naughty eh! Lilac.
You like 'goading' people eh! Lilac.
I shall have to watch out for you.
Me having led a sheltered life, like.

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Oh cripes, a new member we have to watch out for now as well?? Me thinks we have enough (pardon moi, "to watch out for, that 'tis")