Wheektopia Guinea Pig Care and Rescue Center

10/21/2026

My very favorite shop vac died today. Wheektopia guinea pigs love to make a mess and this poor shop vac has put up with A LOT of abuse for the past two years. I cleaned it out, brushed the filter, no luck. Tomorrow I will grab a new filter, but for now I’m taking it as a sign to quit rescue cleaning for the day.

With a tumor removal next week, a guinea pigs who needs spayed, health checks appointments, and now a broken shop vac, I’m going to need to do some real fundraising!

If you would like to support Wheektopia, below are options to donate. We are always looking for sponsors and donations for all of our medical treatment and daily care!

Thank you!

🐹 www.wheektopia.com/donate
🐹 GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-wheektopias-rescue-efforts
🐹 Venmo: Wheektopia
🐹 PayPal: Wheektopia
🐹 Amazon and Chewy Wishlists (link in Instagram bio or search “Wheektopia”)
🐹 Contact our vet, Southern Maine Hospital for Small Mammals, directly to make a donation! (207) 535-9330

10/15/2026

Anyone able to help get this mama with satin syndrome to Danni Helping All Little Things this weekend?

**TRANSPORT FILLED** One of our volunteers will be traveling directly through our transport route this weekend and has offered to bring the guinea pigs the whole way! Thank you Tara!

SATURDAY OCTOBER 17

ROCHESTER, NY TO DEERFIELD, NH

We need your help getting Momma and her two babies from Rescued Treasures Pet Adoptions to Helping All Little Things this weekend! This transport will be for three guinea pigs in 2-3 carriers total.

If are able to help and this is your first time volunteering, please complete our volunteer registration here:
https://form.jotform.com/200424161896050

HOP 1: Rochester, NY to Utica, NY; 135 miles, 2hr 5mins, 8am - 10:05am - FILLED, Tara, thank you!

HOP 2: Utica, NY to Albany, NY; 97 miles, 1.5hrs, 10:10am - 11:40am - FILLED, Tara, thank you!

HOP 3: Albany, NY to Chicopee, MA; 86 miles, 1hr 20 mins, 11:45am - 1:05pm - FILLED, Tara, thank you!

HOP 4: Chicopee, MA - Lowell, MA; 93 miles, 1hr 40mins, 1:10pm - 2:50pm - FILLED, Tara, thank you!

Hop 5: Lowell, MA to Deerfield, MA; 48 miles, 1hr 5 mins, 2:55pm - 4pm - FILLED, Tara, thank you!

10/15/2026

Beefcake had surgery today at Southern Maine Hospital for Small Mammals. As always, everyone was amazing and made Wheektopia’s sweet piggies as comfortable as possible (another post about the other pigs later).

Beefcake’s hump was pretty gnarly! I learned another sad thing about skinny pigs today: the genetics that prevent them from growing fur also causes thinner, delicate skin. Beefcake needed 14 staples to hold her incision together and will have a badass zipper scar!

I absolutely love this spunky girl. She’s going great: eating, enjoying her heating pad (thank you to whoever donated that pad that is activated when a piggy snuggles down in it, it’s perfect!), and having some time in her cage. Since she had staples, we decided it’s best she recovers in her own space.

We drained the rescue account today, if you would like to help us out, we will have some fundraising opportunities or just jump in now (see below)!

If you would like to support Wheektopia, below are options to donate. We are always looking for sponsors and donations for all of our medical treatment and daily care!

Thank you!

🐹 www.wheektopia.com/donate
🐹 GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-wheektopias-rescue-efforts
🐹 Venmo: Wheektopia
🐹 PayPal: Wheektopia
🐹 Amazon and Chewy Wishlists (link in Instagram bio or search “Wheektopia”)
🐹 Contact our vet, Southern Maine Hospital for Small Mammals, directly to make a donation! (207) 535-9330

10/14/2026

Surgery day for Beefcake! Trust me, there is A LOT of grossness in that hump.

If you would like to support Wheektopia, below are options to donate. We are always looking for sponsors and donations for all of our medical treatment and daily care!

Thank you!

🐹 www.wheektopia.com/donate
🐹 GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-wheektopias-rescue-efforts
🐹 Venmo: Wheektopia
🐹 PayPal: Wheektopia
🐹 Amazon and Chewy Wishlists (link in Instagram bio or search “Wheektopia”)
🐹 Contact our vet, Southern Maine Hospital for Small Mammals, directly to make a donation! (207) 535-9330

10/12/2026

Today I had a little snuggle time with Clementine and her babies, Beefcake joined too.

NOTE: Babies are cute and amazing, but I definitely don’t condone breeding or letting your guinea pig “experience” motherhood. Occasionally I take in pregnant guinea pigs and I do celebrate these little lives, but there are enough babies.

Everyone is healthy and Clementine is hilarious. In the last pic/reel, you can see her bulldoze her babies to get to some greens. She’s doing great, feeding babies, and caring for herself.

If you would like to support Wheektopia, below are options to donate. We are always looking for sponsors and donations for all of our medical treatment and daily care!

Thank you!

🐹 www.wheektopia.com/donate
🐹 GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-wheektopias-rescue-efforts
🐹 Venmo: Wheektopia
🐹 PayPal: Wheektopia
🐹 Amazon and Chewy Wishlists (link in Instagram bio or search “Wheektopia”)
🐹 Contact our vet, Southern Maine Hospital for Small Mammals, directly to make a donation! (207) 535-9330

10/11/2026

Babies! 💕🐹💕

It’s been a little while since we had babies born in Wheektopia. Last Wednesday a family contacted me because they took in two guinea pigs that week, not realizing one was pregnant and were pretty stressed about the health of the mama. They were trying to rehome on Facebook, but I was concerned that mom wouldn’t get the support she needed, so I took her in (and her friend, Toast).

She’s a sweet, shy piggy I named Clementine. Beefcake’s bonding didn’t work out great, so I tried her with Clementine and they’re friends!

Today I walked downstairs, reached into Clementine’s favorite fleece tunnel, and discovered three perfect babies. Mama is doing great, babies are feeding and zooming, Beefcake is a bit dazed, but all is well. 😆🐹

If you would like to support Wheektopia, below are options to donate. We are always looking for sponsors and donations for all of our medical treatment and daily care!

Thank you!

🐹 www.wheektopia.com/donate
🐹 GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-wheektopias-rescue-efforts
🐹 Venmo: Wheektopia
🐹 PayPal: Wheektopia
🐹 Amazon and Chewy Wishlists (link in Instagram bio or search “Wheektopia”)
🐹 Contact our vet, Southern Maine Hospital for Small Mammals, directly to make a donation! (207) 535-9330

If you’re interested in adopting, please visit www.wheektopia.com to read about guinea pig care, browse available guinea pigs, and fill out an adoption application.

10/07/2026

Beefcake has piggy friends for the first time! Carol, Mama Cass, and Sloane have been in Wheektopia since August 2023 and they’re making space for this little piggy who needs a family. 💕🐹💕

10/05/2026

Our Massachusetts friends!

10/03/2026

New Wheektopia herd! Our two senior trios: S’mores, Toffee, and Sundae; and Oreo, Honey, and Cannoli bonded today! Oreo is a neutered boar and everything went great. They will all live with our wonderful senior sanctuary foster, Kassia at pupnpals . Thank you for loving these babies!

09/29/2026

Morgan and Malibu did great at their first Read with a Guinea Pig at Brookline NH Public Library I loved seeing new and reoccurring faces. Thank you to everyone who came to read with one of these sweet girls! 📚🐹📚