[Gpdd] [RESCUE] Piggies for adoption in Basingstoke, England?

[DebJonSara at aol.com]

Further to my previous post regarding importing my daughter's guinea pigs 
from France to Basingstoke - if this does not prove practical, Sarah would like 
to acquire a couple of British piggies. It would be the easiest thing in the 
world to go out and buy a couple frorm a petstore, but I have persuaded her it 
would be far better to adopt a couple of unwanted ones from a rescue centre. Is 
anyone on this list involved with guinea pig rescue in the Basingstoke, 
Hampshire area? If she can't have her two boys with her, she would ideally like to 
adopt a couple of longhaired females - does Abyssinian mean longhaired, I'm 
never quite sure?! Several of my beautiful rescues are longhaired, but they 
naver had a posh name applied to them - as regular subscribers will know, I just 
refer to them as my "dolly mixtures"! 

I am taking Sarah's belongings over to her this weekend, and as that will be 
one of the few occasions she will have access to a car, it would make sense if 
we collected her new piggies then (assuming I can't take Claude and Red Dandy 
across on the ferry). Does anyone know of a rescue we could visit which might 
have what she would be looking for?

Wheeks to all the wigglepigs, and condolences to all whose piggies have 
recently crossed The Bridge. I surely can't be the only person who's been opening 
their gpdd with trepidation just recently, dreading news of yet another 
heatbreaking departure. My thoughts are with all of you who mourn - and I guess 
probably most of us have lost at least one beloved friend across The Bridge at some 
time or other. 

Debbie