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La forma de mamá que nos cuida desde el cielo. 🥹🥹
(Final alternativo al meme de ayer).

We are big fans of Rocky. We love this. Credit to Piggie Parodies check out their page for more Piggie merchandise and fun.❤❤❤❤😂👍⭐

A quick parody for the weekend of the classic "ROCKY" poster...

"It ain’t about how hard you wheek. It’s about how hard you can wheek and keep wheeking onward. That’s how winning veggies is done!”- Wheeky Balboa

Info, I used AI to get the top half of the piggie with the arms up like that, no real piggie was harmed =P

Our Guinea pig 2023 calendar is still available. Get them before the year begins!

Guinea Pig Calendar 2023 - Etsy This Calendars & Planners item is sold by ShopCreationsbyKiwi. Ships from Louisville, KY. Listed on Aug 9, 2022

Credit to Guinea pigs in Art page.
We just love how colorful this portrait is❤👍☺

It's Guinea Pig Friday! Guilliver Guinea Pig Meets the Birds, Gordon Hutchings, c. 1961

When mid-century modern magazines were full of whimsy ... and wheeks!

The ever adventurous Gulliver Guinea Pig finds himself meeting lots of new bird friends who live by the pond, including ducks, a heron, an owl a robin and a woodpecker amongst others - your ornithology expertise welcome!

Delightful and surprisingly detailed work by Gordon Hutchings who took over the illustrations from this particular ongoing series in the long-running British children's comic magazine Playhour, published by Amalgamated Press/Fleetway/IPC between 1954 and 1987.

With Guy Fawkes Night fast approaching, please remember to check your bonfires for hedgehogs who may be sleeping.

Our spiky friends are rapidly on the decline and you can help to prevent unnecessary loss. Follow this wildlife friendly advice from British Hedgehog Preservation Society:
• Don’t build your bonfire until the same day that you will light it. The longer it’s left, the more likely that a hedgehog will find its way into your bonfire.
• If you need to build your bonfire in advance, make sure you place chicken wire one metre high all the way around the bottom. This should be placed at an outward angle to make it more difficult for hedgehogs to climb.
• If you have stored materials for your bonfire outdoors, before building it move them to a different patch of ground before you start.
• Always place the bonfire on open ground but never on a pile of leaves as a hedgehog may be hiding underneath.
• Always check the entire bonfire for hedgehogs before lighting it. Remember that they tend to hide in the centre and bottom two feet in particular.
• When checking, lift parts of the bonfire section by section using a pole or broom. Do not use a fork, spade or rake as this may injure a hedgehog.
• Use a torch to look inside the bonfire and listen for a hissing sound, as this is the noise that hedgehogs make when they are disturbed or distressed.
• Always light your bonfire from one corner, rather than in the centre, in order to give hedgehogs a chance to escape if they need to.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November but don’t forget about our wildlife! 🦔🔥

Artwork by Becky Cameron Illustration ❤️

Feliz Dia de Los Muertos🌈💀🌟❤🙏💀🌺💀🌹❤💀🌺💀🌹❤🌟🌈"Happy Day Of The Dead". Lets never forget the family pets that have passed on, all the loyalty, love and joy that they brought to our lives. They are with God now over the rainbow bridge Resting in Peace. Thank you for always looking over us and protecting us no matter where we are. One day...not now but one day well will meet again.

The Moon taken with my phone this morning. All the way from Louisville Kentucky USA. Wishing our Kiwi Fam around the world a wonderful weekend! Thank you for all the love and support❤

Carve you favorite design and leave in the comments 🕷🎃👻

Lap pads are still available!😲 These reusable lap pads are excellent for nail trimmings, after bath, or just to chill on the couch with your furry friend. Easy to wash by hand or washing machine. They are washer and dryer safe!😀☺

Mystery Lap P*e Pad for Guinea Pig Skinny Pig Rat - Etsy This Pet Bedding Liners item by ShopCreationsbyKiwi has 89 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Louisville, KY. Listed on Jul 24, 2022

We now have 2023 calendars available featuring our Four legged family on every page. Proceeds from the sales will go to the Tender, Love and Care of our featured guinea pig stars! Please Share and support our family owned Business. Thank you kindly!

Guinea Pig Calender 2023 - Etsy This Calendars & Planners item is sold by ShopCreationsbyKiwi. Ships from Louisville, KY. Listed on Aug 9, 2022

Congratulations to Coco and Gwen
Credit to Carolina Cavy

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“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” – Frida Kahlo, 20th-century painter

Order your 2023 calender today! If you are interested comment or message me directly. Thank you! Also available on or Etsy shop.

Sunshine

For this wheeeekend we want to show case
Texas Rustlers Guinea Pig Rescue
Thank you for supporting our small animal community❤
If you live in Texas please give them a visit!
https://www.facebook.com/TexasRustlers/

Texas Rustlers Guinea Pig Rescue Our Rescue store is open from Saturdays from 9am to 5pm. You are welcome to visit the animals during

It's Guinea Pig Mystery Friday! Sense of Taste, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, 1618

Pigs, pigs, where are the pigs? If you can locate the pigs in this painting, you have very good eyes.

Enjoy the painting as a whole, but you may have trouble locating the guinea pigs. However, they are there in the painting of a painting on the far left - a very clever way to ensure guinea pig inclusion! I was thrilled to find them after all though they are difficult to see without magnification.

See the comments for piggy closeup and detail!

This set of paintings on the five senses (Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch) was one of the most successful collaborations of Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Thoughtfully not including guinea pigs as a potential taste sensation in the foreground, Brueghel manages to include guinea pigs by painting a small version of another of his own paintings, "Garland of Fruit Surrounding a Depiction of Cybele" which DOES include guinea pigs (see the famous tiny Blackie and Brownie eating peas in the closeup of this one).

Art notes: A satyr pours nectar of the gods into a sumptuous goblet held by a nymph leaning on a table full of food, alluding to taste and its relation to the idea of abundance. In this apparently pagan, lustful and animal-natured setting, the garland and the three paintings in the background bear a moral and Christological meaning. The Offering to Cibeles reveals a disproportionate fondness for abundance and wealth; The Abundant Kitchen, near the top, while less refined than the palace tables, alludes to human weakness in the face of gluttony, which is more moderate in the Rustic Kitchen and The Wedding Feast at Canna.

Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid (check for availability, not on display)

Reusable p*e pads for your pets habitat is still available. Washing machine friendly, makes spot cleaning a breeze!

Mystery P*e Pad Set for Guinea Pig Skinny Pig Hedgehog - Etsy This Pet Mats & Pads item by ShopCreationsbyKiwi has 171 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Louisville, KY. Listed on Jun 21, 2022

Perfect for Hedgehogs and Rats. Your tiny friends will enjoy playing and nesting with our digbox fillers!

Dig Box Filler Fleece Strips for Hedgehogs Pet Rats - Etsy This Nesting Supplies item by ShopCreationsbyKiwi has 48 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Louisville, KY. Listed on Jul 22, 2022

Credit to Austin Guinea Pig Rescue. Thank you for serving and caring for the small animal community!

Teach Me Tuesday!

"The abdominal cavity of a guinea pig accounts for approx 80% of their body. 😲

This means that their chest cavity is very small. The most important organ in the GIT of a guinea pig is the caecum.

This is a large structure where fermentation occurs and allows the guinea pig to get nutrition from relatively low value food ie hay and grass. It is important for guinea pigs to eat continuously* (you should seek veterinary advice if your pig hasn't eaten for more than 8 consecutive hours) and for their guts to remain mobile. Gut stasis can be fatal if severe.

* this does not mean your guinea pigs need to eat every second of every day😂"

https://www.facebook.com/theguineapigvet/photos/a.569689640129373/1373707026394293/

Can you spot the wild bunny?

You are worthy now.

Credit to Tara Shannon

I made a wish a long time ago to someday publish a book. And now, I have two.

I created Rabbit, not yet bear, in spring 2019, to bring hope and comfort to myself while I processed my own feelings of grief, loss, anxiety and depression.

From 2009 to 2013 I experienced a miscarriage, the end of my marriage, the loss of both my parents, and my own cancer diagnosis.

To top it all off, while on a medical leave from my work at the time, my job was terminated.

It was a lot in a relatively short period of time, although I don't remember thinking of it like that then. I was more concerned with putting one foot in front of the other and moving forward, no matter how graceful or ungraceful I was at doing so. In the back of my mind, I knew that sooner or later, I would have to sort through all of my feelings. Rabbit (and Bear), helped me do that, and I shared my simple drawings and dialogue among my friends and family online. I had no expectations beyond that, only the hope that my words might be useful to someone else somewhere along the line.

A few short months later, and quite literally overnight, the whole world seemed to need my Rabbit. COVID-19 had arrived and one of my drawings, ("l'm afraid," said Rabbit) went viral after it was stolen from my social media and cropped to remove my name. Since then, I have worked hard to chase after that image and reclaim it.

Who are Rabbit & Bear?

I don't assign Rabbit or Bear any specific gender, and I look at them as the younger, questioning version of oneself in the form of Rabbit, and the older wiser version in Bear.

Not surprisingly I see my parents, grandparents etc. in Bear with the things they would try to pass on to me. And I also see the child I lost in Rabbit. They have become my way of having back something of what I lost: my parents and my child.

The questions expressed and answers given are the things I wish I could pass on to my child and the things I still wish I could hear from my parents as I navigate the world without them.

The fact that Rabbit, along with Bear, has reached so many is humbling.

I don't have all or any of the answers, at least not for anyone else but me.

Everyone's journey through life will be uniquely their own. What I can offer, though, is Rabbit & Bear.

Every one of us, at some time or another, will experience dark and light times in our lives.

I'm no different.

The loss of my parents, a pregnancy, my job, my marriage, a cancer diagnosis, and also finally processing and reconciling abuse from my childhood, lead me through a very dark time that lasted many years. I struggled daily with anxiety and depression, and I still do and likely always will.

I'm not upset about it though.

Ups and downs are part of life, and each of us has to figure out the best way to carry on for ourselves.

I have good and bad days but I'm happy to say, at least in this moment, there are more good days than bad. More than what existed 10 years ago when my world was turned upside down. I have learned to cope in my way with the help of doctors, therapists and my small but close-knit group of friends and family. And one of the ways I cope is through Rabbit & Bear. Drawing and writing Rabbit & Bear, writing poems and stories, help me relax, find and keep my bearings and process my thoughts and big feelings.

You see I'm neurodivergent too. I always felt that my brain saw and thought about things in a different way than was presented to me at school. So, when I was diagnosed late in life with ADHD, and most recently autism, it came as no surprise. It was validating, and a relief to finally be recognized.

For me, being able to see my thoughts and feelings as expressed through writing and drawing has always helped me understand them better.

The more complex a subject, or a thought, or an emotion the more my brain wants to take it and make sense of it, boiling it down to its essence.

That's why Rabbit & Bear sometimes seems so simple.

The seeds of Rabbit & Bear's existence were born in my time of darkness.

Through them, and along with therapy, supportive friends and family like my partner and step-daughters, the light began to return to my life.

Rabbit & Bear continue to help me, and I share them in case they might be able to help you to.

Together, we return with the light.

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Books, Store & Social Media

https://www.tarashannonwrites.com/quick-links

*My first book, Rabbit & Bear Make a Wish is available worldwide on Amazon and Indigo.ca across Canada.

*My second book, Rabbit & Bear Return with the Light is available on Amazon

*My store, selling prints and other items can be found at www.artofwhere.com/artists/tarashannon

*You can find me on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok at

***Image:
"I'm afraid." said Rabbit.
"What are you afraid of?" asked Bear.
"I don't know." replied Rabbit. "I just am."
"Then I will sit with you until you're not afraid anymore." said Bear. "We'll face it together."

©Tara Shannon, 2019

Reusable and washable Cozy tunnels are still available for your small animal friends! Tell all your friends!

Fleece Tunnel Snuggle Tunnel With P*e Pads for Guinea Pig - Etsy This Pet Bedding Liners item by ShopCreationsbyKiwi has 59 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Louisville, KY. Listed on Jul 24, 2022

Custom name signs for your small furry friends are still available!

Custom Name Sign Pet Name Sign Cage Name Sign Custom Pet - Etsy This Pet Bedding Liners item by ShopCreationsbyKiwi has 49 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Louisville, KY. Listed on May 29, 2022

This is the Real mccoy, the one and only Piggie Parodies. Tell all your furry friends

Piggie Parodies official links | Linktree Guinea Pigs in parody situations, coloring book & notebooks available on Amazon!