Pig Tails

Guinea pigs are under-rated in the intelligence department. They are often muddled up with hamsters, relegated to under-heated hutches at the bottom of the garden, or given to children as 'practise-pets'. But, as Merridy discovers, guinea pigs can change your life. And indeed, the course of earthly history...Entering a surreal guinea pig underworld at the Hobart Guinea Pig Show, Merridy adopts the tiny pedigree Hazel and the handsome mongrel Chestnut. She has no idea that her home, her family, the island of Tasmania and indeed, Planet Earth, will in time be turned upside down by the acquisition of two ridiculous furballs with twiddly little legs.For guinea pigs are smarter than most humans think. And the angelic Hazel is a Pig God in training.Guinea pig motherhood turns out to be a complex and hilarious business, and when Choklit and Little Spot become Green Street's first rescued guinea pigs, Merridy sets her heart on establishing Pig Heaven, the island's first guinea pig orphanage. Pig Tails depicts a charming and funny domestic scene, but one with cosmic implications (fully revealed in Books 2 and 3).