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Stars of the Theme Cages
Get the latest scoop on the theme cage stars! Read about their favorite foods, grooming habits, cage mates, pastimes, and other well-kept secrets. Meet the athletes: the track stars who love to do laps and those climbers who will tackle the tallest mountains. Read about those with medical problems: heart murmur, scurvy, ruptured eardrum. Learn which guinea pig is into Competitive Popcorning and who is barbering another pig's hair. Find out who lives in an orange house and how to wrap hair...all this and much more! Enjoy and have fun getting the inside scoop on the stars of the theme cages!
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Date(s): September 17, 2002. Album by Kathy: themecages@aol.com. Photos by Various people. 5 - 8 of 31 Total. |
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Erin's "Butterfly Garden"
FUDGE
Breed: American Broken
Color: Chocolate/White
Sparky
Breed: Abyssinian
Color: Black
Fudge is my chocolate and white dreamboat boar. He thinks he's quite the stud and likes to rumble strut and mark me when I hold him. I don't think he understands that he stinks when he does this and I don't like it ... oh, well. He's a good guy, just lets his hormones get in the way. Typical teenager.
Sparky is a black Abby little boy. He loves his roommate Fudge and will cry if Fudge isn't within his sights. I usually have to take him out with Fudge so he doesn't cry too much! He's more considerate and doesn't mark me when I hold him, so thank you Sparky!
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Kathy's "African Safari",
"Garden Retreat", "Lupine Garden"
& "Under the Sea"
FRED
Breed: Sheltie aka Silkie
Color: Red and White
Favorite Pastime: "Rescuing" Female Guinea Pigs
Fred's looks and mellow personality made him one of the "super models" of the theme cages. He starred in four of the theme cages and patiently put up with the various photo-shoots as well as he tolerated the young male foster pigs who he roomed with on occasion. At one point he realized that being a mentor to young males was not his thing and that he was really interested in "rescuing" the young females who came in to be fostered. He got neutered and was placed in with three other females and eventually he and Pippi ended up in their own condo. Fred is one of three theme-cage stars who passed over the Rainbow Bridge in the Fall of 2002.
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Kathy's "African Safari",
"Garden Retreat" & "Under the Sea"
GYPSY
Breed: Satin Abyssinian/Peruvian
Color: Tortoiseshell and White
PIPPI aka Pip-A-Roo
Breed: Texel
Color: Red and White
Gypsy is sweet and a bit shy. She was acquired from a family who no longer had time for their guinea pigs. She was about six-months-old in the Spring of 2002 and had been living outside in a hutch with her sister and mother. She is currently shares a cage with Max and Pippi.
Pippi's endearing looks and personality has made her one of the "super models" like her former mate, Fred. The two of them made quite a couple with Fred's straight long locks and Pippi's curly locks. Pippi loves to popcorn around her cage and sound the alarm for veggies. Pippi was acquired in January of 2002 and is probably a little over a year old. She lives with Max and Gypsy in their new home.
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Kathy's "African Safari",
"Garden Retreat" & "Under the Sea"
MOCHA (and Pippi in igloo)
Breed: Abyssinian Mix
Color: White and Red
Favorite Pastime: Scaling Mountains!
Mocha was acquired in 2002 from a family that ended up with a pregnant female and needed to place the babies. Mocha is quite the athlete! She loves to climb or run up things: ramps, hay containers, stools, and igloos - you name it! She also loved to ring the chimes and would popcorn around the cage every time she rang them. She has a history of a heart murmur and had respiratory problems at one point. She was housed with three other guinea pigs but that didn't work out since they harassed her too much. She was transported down to the LA area to join Techteddy and her guinea pig, Hannah. Her new name is Pixie.
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