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We foster and rescue guinea pigs as space allows. We also help locate pet safe homes through our page

01/12/2025

Cotton’s babies all have their lives of love and veggies waiting for them.

The two baby girls will be going home together…

Her baby boy will be paired with Ontario, the rescue boy here, so they can both have a friend.

Updated pictures tomorrow..

Thank you for offering the baby girls a home together…..I know they will be very loved. 🐾☃️🐾

01/12/2025

Miss Olivia welcomed her little family on January 11th…..

She has been in the fleece pen with the girls, and Olivia’s babies are already running around with Cotton’s babies. I will likely post a video later on Monday, to share the cuteness.

We won’t be having as many babies this year, but we will enjoy and share the babies that do arrive here.

Welcome to the world little ones. Have a great Sunday guys! 🐾☃️🐾

01/09/2025

Bibble and Dizzle will soon be ready to look for their lives of love and veggies.

They are rescue piggies and have been going through their quarantine period here. They have done awesome. Their story is on the page over the last couple of weeks. Bibble is a confident piggy and Dizzle has been working on trusting his humans. They are both friendly boys and get along well together.

They deserve their new start in life with their own family that loves them…..

If you can offer them their safe place to land, together, please contact me for more details…..🐾☃️🐾

01/09/2025

I am later then I wanted to be making this post.

Grr…I have had a migraine for the last three days…slowed things down here.

So this is the last two girls from the shelter surrender…

The white one was in the group from the other two girls posted a few days ago. They were a group of three. The Red Teddy, was from a separate group of piggies at the shelter. She was also part of a group of three. The Red Teddy came here as she is emaciated. I didn’t feel it was right she was adopted out to a family as something is not right at this time. I believe the pair I left there was going to be adopted by a family, which is why I didn’t bring them here.

I did not want the red Teddy to be alone during quarantine, so I paired her with the white girl for now. I am not sure why the Red Teddy is so emaciated. Her friends were not. The information the shelter had, said they were three years old….she might be, she might not be..She is well, eats well, acts ok…just painfully thin. I bought the Red Teddy here, knowing she might be a sanctuary piggy. It’s too early to make that call right now. Piggies do lose weight when older, but not normally all over like this. Nothing can be found right now to say why she is so thin, so we are feeding her a good diet, extra nutrition to see if she can’t gain weight. They are both friendly little girls. If the red Teddy needs to stay here, she will join the herd of sanctuary girls and the white girl will be able to find her family….time will tell, and I will keep you guys updated.

These two also need their names..for their new lives…please put some name suggestions in the comments for me….i will update on all seven rescue and surrenders next week.

Have a great evening guys…..🐾☃️🐾

01/05/2025

Ontario is the male piggy I bought back from the shelter surrender.

He was with the girls when he arrived at the shelter and they separated him. So the girls here are on a pregnancy watch for a few more weeks. I don’t feel any pregnancies right now.

Ontario is a really nice boy. He is stunning. He is inquisitive and confident and takes veggies from my hands. He is a friendly boy. I think he is likely daddy to a couple of the girls here, from that surrender.

Right now he is on his own going through quarantine, but he can see the other piggies. My plan for him is to give him a baby friend in a couple weeks and see if we can’t pair him up. Cotton had a baby boy, so all being well he will be Ontario’s new friend. Then I would look, for their forever family. I will keep you updated once
Cotton’s baby boy is ready to be weaned…

This guy make me smile….🐾☃️🐾

01/05/2025

Cotton’s babies are five days old and already experts in eating veggies lol.

Enjoy the piggy antics tonight.

Have a good Sunday guys. 🐾☃️🐾

01/05/2025

Cotton’s babies born on New Year’s Eve.

They are having a blast on the clean fleece tonight.

A longer video will be up later tonight. 🐾☃️🐾

01/04/2025

At the beginning of this week, I was asked to help out another shelter here with some piggies they had.

I have helped them before. For you local guys, it’s the Iowa City Animal Shelter. FYI there is currently one nice boy there looking for his life of love and veggies. A handsome and friendly boy called Huron. His picture and details are on their website. If you need a new little friend, he is waiting for you at the shelter…

This is two of the girls I bought back from the shelter. I am guessing the white piggy is mom. She is a very big girl. She is friendly and confident. The one with some chocolate color on her face…I am guessing is her daughter. All will become clear when I show the other piggies later today. I think we had a family situation going on here… mom is likely not older than eighteen months. Her presumed daughter is likely around eight months old..Both girls need to stay here for the next month on a pregnancy watch. The shelter let me know when they arrived they were with the male and of course then separated.

They are doing super well. This group of rescues really likes their pellets….my plans for the girls are to get them through my quarantine, check for pregnancy, and then find them their safe place to land together. FYI I am not feeling any pregnancies right now, which is awesome news…fingers crossed it stays that way.

The girls do need new names for their new lives. Please leave some name suggestions in the comments of this post for them.

Have a great Saturday guys….🐾☃️🐾

01/04/2025

The piggies got some special treats for Christmas. 🐾🌺🐾

01/04/2025

Update for Bibble and Dizzle., The two rescue boys that arrived here almost a week ago.

They were surrendered here from a local shelter, who rescued them, with many other animals, from a hoarding situation. The shelter reached out for help to find these little guys their life of love and veggies.

The boys have done great this week. They have eaten everything I gave them. They are beginning to gain some weight and condition. They will get a bath next week along with all the other surrenders that arrived in this last week. The end of 2024 was extremely busy.

You can see from the pictures that Bibble has some significant ear damage. This does not bother or affect him now. They are very old injuries, likely from overcrowding when he was younger. He is a very handsome boy and friendly. He is confident and will take his veggies from your hands. I would put his age at nine to twelve months. Dizzle , he is a little more timid, but he is working on being brave. He is a long haired piggy. He is actually a Silkie piggy. He had to have a pretty big hair cut the day he arrived, for matts. He felt better right away. They were pulling at his skin. Dizzle is a younger boy, around four months old.

The boys get along well together. They will stay here another couple of weeks, going through my quarantine. Then I will look for their safe place to land , where they can live life together with their human family.

These special boys, deserve the very best….they have not lost faith in humans, which speaks to their resilience.

2025 is going to be the start of their new and happier lives…..🐾🌺🐾

All life is precious, no matter how small…🙏🏼

01/01/2025

Cotton surprised us today and welcomed her little family. I thought they would be 2025 babies, but no she had different plans heheh.

So here is our last litter of piggy babies for 2024….Everyone is doing wonderfully.

We have had another busy year with the piggies. We have had our own piggies and helped many surrenders and rescues too. We have also welcomed sanctuary piggies. Those are the piggies that need to stay here for a variety of reasons. We could not do that without you guys. Cherished Cavies is team work. Ultimately, you guys help by offering lives of love and veggies to many piggies here. Thank you guys!

I said a year ago, that I would be lowering my personal number of piggies to have more space to help rescue and piggies in need. That’s where my heart is, although I love every piggy. I have done that throughout the year. I made some extra space, but still plan on more over the next few months.

I did not expect to go into 2025 filling those spaces so quickly. I didn’t expect new babies so soon either lol…I thought I had a couple weeks..hehehe. So this week alone I have welcomed seven piggies in need and three new babies. I will be updating the page later in the week, after the holidays, and introducing you to everyone.

Many of you have asked if I will still have babies here, and yes I will. Not as many as previous years. I will aim for one litter a month on average. I still believe people should have the option to not go to a pet store, and support mill breeding if they don’t want to. Pet store piggies need homes too, they absolutely do, but I know many people would prefer not to go that route if they did not have too. I still believe pet stores can do better with housing and caring for their live animals and educating the public with correct and safe information.

I could not do:any of this without the support from you guys. You guys give the piggies their forever family. I appreciate you! I appreciate the support on the page, the comments and the messages. I appreciate you take the time to interact with my posts and get the word out, that piggies are needing their safe places to land.

I hope you guys have the best New Year and that 2025 brings you much happiness, peace and health.

I am looking forward to what this year brings for the piggies and it’s my real hope I can help more rescues and surrenders this year.

See you in 2025 guys! 🐾🎉🐾

12/30/2024

The last couple of days I have been busy planning for some new arrivals.

I needed to make space for some surrenders to come in from a Shelter.

I will be making a post for the piggies in a few days, but for now I am getting them settled, health checks, nail trims etc..I have some concerns for one of them, some will need to be on a pregnancy watch. I will share details later in the week.

The pictures are the piggies in their travel carriers, not their living space.

Welcome to the caviary piggies. Very happy you are here with us.

More details and updates at the end of the week….🐾🥕🐾

12/28/2024

Today we welcomed Bibble and Dizzle into the Caviary.

We were asked if we would help out a local shelter. The shelter helps mostly dogs and cats. They are an awesome resource for the area. They have a FB page where they shared the boys rescue story back in November. Their page is Animal Welfare Friends.

So the boys were part of a rescue that was a hoarding situation. There were other animals in this rescue. Please remember I don’t allow negative judgment on this page. While I understand many people have feelings about animal welfare, it doesn’t help the animals who need saving if we show negative feelings. People fear judgment and won’t come forward to ask for help. So on this page we are grateful that piggies that need help, end up here..and we focus on their future, not their past. Life begins anew once they arrive here.

I am grateful to the shelter for the great care they gave the boys and for all their work to help all the animals in this rescue.

So the boys appear to be young. Bibble looks to be around a year and Dizzle around four months. The boys appear to get long well together. Bibble has good body weight but he does have chewed ears. This often happens in an over crowding situation. They are old injuries and cause no pain..but you can see his history. He has some other cares he needs right now, but they are minor. He is a confident boy and has not lost trust in humans. Dizzle needed a haircut on his back end. He had some matting because of his previous living conditions. He is thin and needs to gain weight. He is a more nervous boy, but given time and love he will become braver.

They will both get a bath in a few days. For now they are settling in. They will be here a few weeks going through my quarantine together, and then we will look for their own forever family…

Welcome to the caviary boys. I am so happy you are here with us. You have love and veggies coming your way…

All life is precious, no matter how small. 🐾🎄🐾

12/27/2024

Chocolate Chunk and Pretzel enjoying the season here in the Caviary.

The girls were surrendered here in September. I knew as soon as I saw them they would need to be Sanctuary piggies…family. They are older girls, Chocolate Chunk has some ongoing significant health concerns. Pretzel needed some help for a while too, I was concerned I would lose her, but as of now, they are doing good.

They are happy girls now who wheek for their veggies with everyone else. They now come and take their treats from me. There is such a big difference in their personalities now. They are happy and feeling pretty good. They are old ladies, but both gained weight nicely.

They will live their lives here with me, getting the cares they need.

Sometimes piggies who arrive here, stay here. Sometimes they need too…they become family..

The girls do not like peppers..I have spent months trying to get them to eat them…they like all the other veggies, especially greens and baby carrot and cucumber..

Loving my little friends..

All life is precious, no matter how small….🐾🎄🐾

12/27/2024

The girls on Christmas Day after a fleece change.

This is me begging for forgiveness with an extra snack after they refused the Brussel Sprouts lol.

They did love the cilantro I gave them last night, so hopefully I am forgiven now.

Have a great Friday guys. 🐾🎄🐾

12/26/2024

I forgot to post the girl’s video last night.

I will post later today.

My piggies are happily munching on some cilantro right now…they love it!

Have a great Boxing Day guys, if you celebrate that where you are….🐾🎄🐾

12/26/2024

Hope you guys had a great Christmas Day!

It was business as usual here, as this house works Christmas Day. We celebrate tomorrow.

I did feed the piggies some Brussels sprouts this afternoon. Well forgive me for thinking it would be a nice treat for them lol…Apparently their tastes have changed over the years and very few ate them…hahaha..I had to go around and pick them up after a couple hours. So I gave an extra treat this evening when I changed the fleece pens.

I will share the video of happy girls munching later tonight..😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Happy holidays guys! Did any of your piggies turn their noses up at a special treat today? 🐾😂🐾🎄🐾

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas Guys!

Hope you all have the best day!

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Cotton’s babies are five days old and already experts in eating veggies lol. Enjoy the piggy antics tonight. Have a good Sunday guys. 🐾☃️🐾

Cotton’s babies born on New Year’s Eve. They are having a blast on the clean fleece tonight. A longer video will be up later tonight. 🐾☃️🐾

The girls on Christmas Day after a fleece change. This is me begging for forgiveness with an extra snack after they refused the Brussel Sprouts lol. They did love the cilantro I gave them last night, so hopefully I am forgiven now. Have a great Friday guys. 🐾🎄🐾

The girls tonight after a clean fleece. It sure is quieter without the babies lol. Everyone went home over the last few weeks. There are two sanctuary girls in the pen. Raisin and Edelweiss. Sanctuary piggies stay here as family and live their lives with us. We have four girls who are sanctuary right now and one older boy. I will be having less babies next year and focusing more space on surrenders and rescues. My own pets too. I have my older boys who always live their lives with me. Enjoy the peaceful girls tonight. 🐾🎄🐾

Here are my two cute little boys who need their safe place to land… These little guys are adorable and very sweet Rainbow Teddies. I bonded them together a few days ago, so I could be sure they would both have a friend in life…They are buddies now. If you can offer them their life of love and veggies and plentiful nose rubs, please contact me for more details. 🐾🎄🐾

I plan to get some updated pictures on the weekend. I just have four little piggies looking for their lives of love and veggies right now. One is a pair of brothers, and I have two single baby boys I plan to pair together this evening.. No more piggies this year… Next year I plan to focus more space to Rescue piggies..I will have some litters of my own..and my own pets. Have a great weekend guys…🐾🎄🐾

This little boy is looking for his life of love and veggies… He is about six weeks old and a tubby little guy… He is sweet and sits very nicely with his humans. He makes me smile everyday..He is currently hanging out with one of my adult boys.. I will put his picture in the comments of this post. If you need a buddy to love and cherish, this is your boy. Please contact me for more details….🐾🦃🐾

Here is Panda, our surrender girl who has now been with us for a few weeks. I updated the page with her joining the female herd last week. I wanted to see how she would be with other female piggies, before finding her, her own family. She had never had female piggy friends before..she has done wonderfully…. However, there did seem to be many questions about Panda after that video posted..many thought she was pregnant, some thought she had ovarian cysts. She is not pregnant, nor does she have ovarian cysts. She does however have a mom body, from likely mis treatment and being bred. I noticed right away when she came in, it looked like she had, had pregnancies in her past..her spine was very thin, her tummy very soft and floppy and she was carrying her weight there. To put it bluntly her body was out of condition and she is a big girl. After almost three weeks here, she is regaining condition. She is running around a lot and having a blast with friends. This will help her to tone up too. When she arrived here she was one frightened little girl. She would run in terror at everything…She is awesome now, and a happy and healthy girl. She is nice to snuggle with, but we are still working on her being brave enough to take veggies from our hands. She has come so far in just a few short weeks.. Her story is on the page a few weeks ago…pet stores can and should do better, is all I will say about that. I will post a picture of her later, and ask if you are interested in giving her a life of love and veggies, that you have a female friend for her or a herd of females. Panda is one sweet and pretty little girl who deserves her own family to love her and keep her safe….🐾🦃🐾

Here is Panda meeting the adult girls. As you can see it went very well. It’s so nice to see her happy and not trying to hide from the world. My plans for Panda are to either pair her with a baby girl here, or she can join a female herd. She will live in my girl herd until her family finds her. She won’t be alone now and it’s her time to shine and enjoy piggy life. Panda says life is much happier with friends. If you have a female herd Panda could join, please reach out to me. I am also happy for her to be paired with a baby girl here. Either way.. Panda will have a life of love and veggies ahead of her. 🐾🍁🐾

Here is an update on our surrender girl from a couple weeks ago. She has been through my quarantine and today I wanted to introduce her to the girl herd to see how she would do. She has always been alone except for maybe the pet store breeding her. Her story is on the page a couple weeks ago. I decided to start her slowly with just some baby girls as she would not feel threatened by them. She has been a nervous girl by herself. She did great. She was inquisitive and liked the bigger space. I will post another video in a few hours of her meeting the adult girls. I asked you guys to help me with names. Wow you chose some awesome names for her. The most popular name was Panda. So enjoy Miss Panda meeting friends for the first time. The noisy pigs you hear behind me are the baby boys that just weaned today lol. They can be a little dramatic about it hehe. They quieted down with some veggies. Enjoy Panda meeting her new friends. Meeting the adult girls in the next video. 🐾🍁🤦🏽‍♀️

This little girl will be looking for her life of love and veggies soon.. She is a Rainbow Teddy. She would love a friend or two in her future. If you can offer her, her safe place to land, please contact me for more details. 🐾🍁🐾

Some baby love for you guys. Piper, Ava and Auntie Raisin. Piper and Ava share feeding duties and they both feed all the babies. Auntie Raisin is on snuggle duty. Some babies have their family waiting for them. The others will have pictures on the page over the next day or two. It’s been slow going for me today. Migraine. UGH. Piggies make everything better though. Enjoy the piggy antics. 🐾🍁🐾

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