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About Me

The Critter Corral was founded in April 1999 to find homes for homeless and unwanted Guinea Pigs. Our goal is to find them new loving homes. To date, we have rescued and re-homed over 1,800 guinea pigs!! We are located in the Chicago area and operate a foster casre system run out of private homes. Appointments are set up to visit any piggie you might be interested in. By housing them in private homes we know the piggie personally and can help better find you your "forever friend."
WE DO NOT SHIP PETS!!
Being there are so many homeless Guinea Pigs around the country we do not feel we should fill homes out of our area with our Guinea Pigs. Check your local shelters if you are not in the Chicago and surrounding suburban area. Contact us for more information.
All of our adoptable pigs can be found on www.petfinder.com. I will try to keep the "adoptables" section here on MySpace current but might be backdated. If you see a guinea pig on here that you are interested in, please doublecheck on PetFinder to make sure it is still available. To view a full list of our adoptable piggies, click here! In the below slidehow are just some of the current adoptables we have!!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who loves guinea pigs or wants to help support their rescue in the Chicagoland area!! If you are interested in helping, please subscribe to our blog here as new events and ways to help will be updated regularly.

Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Grassy

Movies:

Doctor Dolittle

Television:

Animal Planet

Books:

Anything by Peter Gurney

Heroes:

Rose Pooler, founder of The Critter Corral, and all of the hardworking volunteers

My Blog

Memorial Program

Memorial Program Have a homeless piggie named after a loved one's pet. For a $10 donation, you'll also receive a pigture of the piggie getting that special name. Donations may be made via Payp...
Posted by The Critter Corral on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:33:00 PST

My Guinea Pig by Kimi Heilman

My Guinea Pig by Kimi and "Chloe" Heilman Wiggle, snuggle, giggle, squeakGentle nibbles on my cheek.Nuzzle close to silken furWhisper, tickle, kisses, purr. Carrots shared on lap in bedScratch...
Posted by The Critter Corral on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:07:00 PST

Graphic Design

Is anybody good at graphic design? I was hoping someone could help make 2 or 3 Critter Corral banners that I could put on this site and provide html coding for people to link to us from their we...
Posted by The Critter Corral on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:03:00 PST

Older Guinea Pigs - Considerations

Introduction Older pigs can sometimes get over-looked in favour of young guineas, either in their own household, or when a potential owner is choosing a new pet. There are pros and cons in caring for...
Posted by The Critter Corral on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:56:00 PST

The Comforter by John Morgan

THE COMFORTER "Good morning Pig!" say chickadeesthat perch outside the windowpane.I slowly stretch, a piggy yawn,is how I like to start my day. Then people stride about the floor--their clunky, slo...
Posted by The Critter Corral on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:45:00 PST

Adoptables!!

I updated our "Adoptables" photo album on here.... at least for today, it should be completely concurrent with PetFinder! Please take a look!! There are many babies as well... Fuzzy Toaste...
Posted by The Critter Corral on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:22:00 PST

DO NOT USE wheels or exercise balls for your piggies

Yes, they come with a picture of a guinea pig on the box. No, they should NOT be used for guinea pigs. But, they keep selling them, because people keep buying them. The curvature of a guinea pig's sp...
Posted by The Critter Corral on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:44:00 PST

Robotic guinea pigs!!!

http://www.gotchathis.com/item--Gupi-Robot-Guinea-Pig-V3--gu pi.html
Posted by The Critter Corral on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:28:00 PST

Beautiful Present

I wanted to share with everyone a gift I received several years ago from my dear friend Debbie. She knew how much I loved my Abbysinnian (Hawthorne) and based off the following picture, had a bo...
Posted by The Critter Corral on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:18:00 PST

Piggy Wedding Hymn by John Morgan

Piggy Wedding Hymn In grassy glade near scarlet flowers,two pigs about to wed.They nestle 'neath the fragrant bower,a garden and a bed. The young pigs run with childlike gracewhile old rest in the ...
Posted by The Critter Corral on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:56:00 PST