Set up in early 2009 after many years of keeping rescued guinea piggies.
We want to be able to offer a place to bring your guinea piggie or piggies if you cannot look after them any more and then for us to find them a home.
We also want to be able to offer advice and help if you want to keep your guinea pigs but are having trouble with them or difficulty in handling.
The rescue is funded totally by myself from my earnings and also by kind donations.
I pay for the electricity, food, vets bills, hutches, petrol, runs. There is no one here who is paid except when I go on holiday and get someone to come in, I then pay from my own pocket. I want to do this and enjoy spending money on the piggies, just that some people think I get funded by the government or get grants!!!!! oh no. So anyone making a donation will know that their hard earned money goes on the piggies, not on photocopiers, vast lunches (except for the piggies) or on expenses.
I have looked into charity status but feel this is not the route to go with a small rescue as resources would start being used for things other than the aniamals and this is not my intention.
Anyone can make an appointment to come and see the animals and how they are kept. And just so anyone reading this can appreciate the cost involved, for one week I have calculated it costs the rescue minimum of £5.50 in dried food and £70 in veggies and bedding costs in winter £21 and summer £14. That works out at approx £380 a month during the summer before any vet bills!!!
This is 'Lord Charles' who is the head of all the guinea piggies.
Rescued from Brighton in June 2006 after being kept with a rabbit and had a huge mite infestation. He has made a full recovery and now runs the guinea pig palace. He is a full time resident.
RIP Lord Charles, your huge personality lives on.
This is Bubbles who is top female pig, she was unwanted as a companion to a rabbit rescued from a 7th floor block of flats, no hay, no water, just a black plastic tunnel to hide in and was in a very small enclosure. She is lovely now, after many months of being a frightened piggie she loves her cuddles and her food especially if I hand feed her! and she now has a girl friend in the shape of Moon Pig! Moonpig suddenly died leaving Bubbles alone, so she is now living in my resident herd of XP (neutered male) Little Mo (totally blind and a right madam) Coco (new addition who is 4 years old and with a big lump on leg) and now Toffee whose partner Tilly died. They have a 6ft x 2ft hutch for bedtime and a double run for the day