Preparedness for when

Ida_Notion

dandy-candy wrote: »

IDA
You do know guineas go mental for parsley, and it is very good for them because of the high vitamin c content? Parsley will grow like mad in any space you have!

I haven't tried growing it here yet, but it's on the agenda because the piggies have already let us know in no uncertain terms that it is a Very Cruel Thing to open a fridge door when there is no parsley within. I expect you know that opening and closing a fridge door quietly is a skill that guinea pig owners acquire quite quickly

I know I'm probably soft, but giving them their parsley is one of my favourite parts of the day. It makes me laugh to see it disappear at speed stem-first into their faces like trees into the back of a shredder. I might try starting some off on the kitchen windowsill. They're already sulking over the lack of curly kale - I think there'd be full scale riot if parsley supplies dried up

[Deleted User]

Also the ability to not rustle a carrier bag is a skill learned by Pigaletto owners too, yes?

Ida_Notion

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Also the ability to not rustle a carrier bag is a skill learned by Pigaletto owners too, yes?

Sometimes I forget that we're their owners. 'Staff' seems like a more appropriate word most of the time

BitterAndTwisted

I'm enjoying the picture in my mind of little piggikins rioting. Bless

Possession

Sounds familiar as I have baby bunnies in the house at the moment (and likely forever now) who are alert for such sounds. They haven't tasted the delights of parsley yet though, they have 2 more weeks to wait before they can try such gourmet delicacies. I've never had much luck with growing parsley mind you, I always seem to kill it. If only rabbits liked mint.
Does spinach grow well in pots?

[Deleted User]

Our Bunnies and Piggies in the past (only 1 piggie now who is my grandpig and lives with DD1) have best of all liked wild foods. They love sow thistle, dandelions, groundsel, hairy bittercress,shepherds purse,grass, and herbs,ours loved bay leaves, thyme,sage, parsley, marjoram, oregano,fennel and dill, also pea shoots and bean leaves, really they are little four legged compost heaps in their own right!!! They can riot though B & T, you wouldn't believe just how noisy they can be when they put their little minds to it, and usually whilst doing wall of death running round the inside of their cages, bless!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

BitterAndTwisted

My little sister had piggies when we were nippers. From memory they had a HUGE repertoire of adorable calls and sounds. The most memorable of which went something like "meep, meep" whenever something of particular interest happened.

*whispers* A friend of mine ate them spit-roasted when she was visiting Peru a short while ago. I dunno how she could have brought herself to do that. I doubt there's that much meat on them either.

Ida_Notion

Possession wrote: »

Sounds familiar as I have baby bunnies in the house at the moment (and likely forever now) who are alert for such sounds. They haven't tasted the delights of parsley yet though, they have 2 more weeks to wait before they can try such gourmet delicacies. I've never had much luck with growing parsley mind you, I always seem to kill it. If only rabbits liked mint.
Does spinach grow well in pots?

Spinach grows great for me in pots, and I've got the Green Finger of Death I used to grow parsley in our old, much bigger garden (no idea why - we didn't have the guinea pigs then and the rest of us don't even like the stuff much) and it was a success as far as I can remember. I think it takes a long time to germinate though.

I feel desperately sorry for all those farmers who are out in this weather trying to salvage something of their livelihoods. I saw a photo of one yesterday, and he looked so broken that I just wanted to reach into the screen and hug him. They weren't even picturing them surrounded by their dead livestock then. It almost makes me feel guilty for worrying about the welfare of household pets after that, but most of us are going to and there'd be a great big chunk of something decent missing if we didn't.

I'm currently psyching myself up to step out into the freezing cold to sort out the evening's grub for my sister-in-law's cat. I'm cat-sitting for her while she's away and not looking forward to fronting up to the biting winds, even though she only lives two streets from here. Then again, she's taken her family off for a pre-booked week in a tin caravan in Woolacombe, so I think I might be the one with the better end of the arrangement

Ida_Notion

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

My little sister had piggies when we were nippers. From memory they had a HUGE repertoire of adorable calls and sounds. The most memorable of which went something like "meep, meep" whenever something of particular interest happened.

*whispers* A friend of mine ate them spit-roasted when she was visiting Peru a short while ago. I dunno how she could have brought herself to do that. I doubt there's that much meat on them either.

It's true about the different noises they make, and they even purr like cats do (one of mine starts purring whenever he hears the phone ring. Weird, especially since it's never turned out to be for him ) I have a suspicion that some of the sounds they make are little piggy cuss-words, specially reserved for people that neglect to come home with curly kale. They've always got to have the last word as well, and 'squeak when you're squoken to' seems to mean nothing to them

I couldn't bring myself to eat a guinea pig either (I can't even bring myself to eat duck since I started to save scraps of bread for the ducks on the pond near us. Soft, like I said ). I'm not going to let my piggies know this though. I'd have played my last card if I couldn't threaten them with the likelihood of becoming the centrepiece of a Peruvian sausage supper every time they stepped out of line

Paul_Varjak

Ida Notion...

I have two cats and they still loving going for walks no matter what the weather, though do prefer it when it is getting dark (around 6.30pm at this time of year)