October 2004

So far this month whee have...

• Marvellous new illustrations for the menu pages from the extremely talented aL - thankyou again aL !
  • Let Allyson, Billy and Trixie guide you through buying a new guinea pig !
  • Splat will tell you what you need to know about caring for your piggy...
  • Trixie will let you know all those other little things you need to know - cavy miscellany !
  • Allyson will show you how to keep your piggies looking well groomed...
  • Nurse Allyson and patient Billy will tell you how to keep your piggy healthy and happy !
  • And Billy will help show you useful links to browse through.
• We shall be continuing with site updates/reloading this month so thankyou again for your patience - NEARLY THERE !
• Finally got the Crafty Pig section reloaded after the recent 'removal of site' problem !!! Comprises Drawings, the infamous Knitty Pigs , Sausage Pig and also the cute little Stocking Piggies !
• The main news of course is the passing of dear little Allyson on Wednesday 13th October 2004 - we will miss you little one, we'll leave your page up for the forseeable future as you deserve to be seen :o) Thankyou aL for the wonderful Angel smilie above and also the little picture for the contents page of Ally with her wings. And a HUGE thankyou for this wonderful pic of Ally joining her sister Felicity [look at her happy little face awwww] and the other Wheekies [Tiger & Mop, Mouse, Snowballs & Squirt] in the sky.......

Sleep well Ally xxx

September 2004

So far this month whee have...

• Well what a month !!!!!!
• First of all HUGE apologies for the current state of the website - I hadn't updated it for a while and my service provider decided to remove the whole complete website from it's webservers and also de-activate my account - a very big thankyou to Piggielove for emailing me the other day to let me know my site wasn't there as I hadn't realised ! Then ensued the panic of trying to dial up to see what had happened only to find I couldn't dial up to the webserver as I had been de-activated. A frantic phone-call then took place to the Wanadoo [used to be Freeserve] helpline [nice lady !] who explained what had happened and very kindly [perhaps sensing the panic in my voice...] re-activated my account - which on the good side meant I could keep the same domain name etc but on the other side, as the whole site had been removed it means I have the task of spending yonks dialling up and loading up each page of the site which luckily I had a copy of on my hard-drive. It's a slow old process, I've tried to load up the most useful stuff first - eg healthchecks and piggy care and am working my way through the rest slowly but surely. I'm also using this as an opportunity to tidy things up a bit - primarily the Meet the Pigs sections as it was getting a bit protracted but hopefully I can tidy more up as I go. So that's site news for now - thankyou for your patience with all the missing bits, I'm trying my best.
• Right, onto more interesting Piggy news. This month has seen Trixie very very poorly. So poorly that I thought she would not make it. However ! I am over the moon [and I exaggerate not !] to let you know she is 95% ok ! A couple of weeks on daily painkillers, a dose of antibiotics, 2 different types of gut stimulants [1 3 x a day, the other 1 x a day] plus hourly syringe feeds of critical care seems to have done the trick, phew, after a bit of messy start with the feeding [mushy critical care over nearly every towel I own, over me, over Trixie and everywhere else except from going down her throat] I had a nice little lesson in syringe feeding from my lovely vet and things improved immeasurably - wasn't getting the nozzle of the syringe far enough into her mouth so she was able to spit it back out again, ah well, we live and learn - if you ever need to syringe feed to that degree, go and get a lesson, it doesn't half make a difference ! So, cut a long story short, Trixie's ok !
• Site 'Reload' update..... I've now loaded up 'tidied up' pages for the 'Meet the Pigs' section - including the individual pages for Allyson, Trixie, Splat and Billy plus a streamlined 'Piggies In The Sky' page and also the 'Group photo' page - I hope you like the tidier look !. So, I suppose, the 'website removal situation' gave me a poke in the ribs to have a bit of a re-organise - every cloud and all that ! Anyway, I'm all updated out now so no more updates today [28/09/04] but I will carry on working my way down.....
• 29/09/04 Hoorah I've re-loaded up the Feeding, Entertainment, Houskeeping and Housing pages - I hope you enjoy all the new photos that have been added !

Thankyou for visiting and being patient whilst we get the site sorted out !

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