Guinea pig biography of christopher

The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as the cavy or domestic cavy is a species of rodent belonging to the genus Cavia.

Personal recollections of family, how Christopher Hogwood (the pig named after the British conductor) helped develop camaraderie is combined with animal fact..

The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood

October 6, 2009

I've been a sucker for books about animals since I began reading -- at the age of 3.

I must have read Lightfoot the Leaping Goat at least 100 times in my childhood -- and every other animal book the public library had. I am a fan of James Herriott and every book about gorillas, chimps, dogs, horses, Elsa the lioness...and I found Moby Dick unbearably sad.

Just thinking about those whales gives me pangs of empathetic suffering.

I have a tender spot for pigs and there was much in this book to amuse and entertain me.

Humphrey is a handsome rough haired ginger guinea pig - with attitude.

Personal recollections of family, how Christopher Hogwood (the pig named after the British conductor) helped develop camaraderie is combined with animal fact.

Christopher Weedon.

An ardent nature lover describes her unique friendship with a pig named Christopher Hogwood, a once sickly piglet who helped her develop a new relationship with.

I also have read widely in the scientific literature about animal cognition and emotions -- even a study on mice and their social groups!

I didn't think there was an animal book I could dislike, but Sy Montgomery managed to write one.

To begin with, I was especially drawn to a book about a pig because of my father's tales of his boyhood in Ukraine and the neighbor's pig that he played with. Also, my aunts, who had the job of taking their horses, cows and sheep to the commo