Saturday, 3 April 2010

Beauty products are not just for humans

Actually, this is just a completely shameless excuse to put a vimeo of us washing the guinea pigs on my blog. It's more beauty related than my X Factor posts, I suppose. Anyway, beauty products cross the species barrier in the London household.

You're meant to wash guinea pigs about once every 6 weeks, to keep their coat and skin in good condition. We adopted our piggies just before Christmas, and they were starting to whiff a bit, so we bought some stuff from the place recommended by the rescue centre we got them from.

The shampoo and pre-wash treatment are both from www.gorgeousguineas.com. They're very gentle, and smell lovely too. I don't think Candace was too impressed, but she did smell lovely afterwards, and has forgiven us after the liberal bribery of much cucumber and sweet pepper.

10 comments:

  1. "Big boned piggy..." loooooool :-)
    Brilliant Grace! They are so cute awwww....
    Have a lovely Easter weekend and all the best to you!
    Nina

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  2. So CUUUUUTTTTE! Very well behaved pigglies

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  3. They are lovely!!!!!!!!!!! they look very healthy and happy.
    I LOVE CUYES (guinea pigs, in Spanish).

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  4. Grace, that was just the cutest thing. What adorable little guinea pigs. They are pretty cooperative about their bathie, unlike my cat which ends up in a Texas style wrestling match.

    Happy Easter to you and your family.
    Anna

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  5. Hi Nina - poor Candace! They do eat quite well! Happy Easter to you too.

    Hi Mizzworthy - as Mr L said, I doubt it'll be so easy next time...:)

    Hi Lucia - they are lovely, lovely pets, and thoroughly spoilt ;)

    Hi Anna - oh, I can imagine trying to bath a cat! Happy Easter to you and yours too :)

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  6. This is the cutest video. I love seeing the London family at work and play. What sweet little piggies you have.

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  7. so cute, they seemed very well behaved

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  8. That was so cute--I love guinea pigs! I've got two piggies myself, and they've been thoroughly horrified each time we've had to give them a bath :-)

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  9. Hi--How did I mis this! My favorite post and you washed them so gently...

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  10. awww, i missed it too. so cute!!!

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