{"id":972,"date":"2017-05-01T09:34:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T14:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/?p=972"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T22:25:40","slug":"can-you-resist-the-cuteness-of-ponyo-piglet-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/can-you-resist-the-cuteness-of-ponyo-piglet-of-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Resist The Cuteness Of Ponyo Piglet Of The Sea?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guinea pigs are inherently cute. Some guinea pigs are lucky enough to have an owner who finds a way to share that cuteness with the world. Enter Ponyo<\/a> Piglet of the Sea, who first appeared on Instagram<\/a> in early 2013. Yes, she is named after the famous Miyazaki movie \u201cPonyo.\u201d Her following started small with just a few hundred likes on photos. But that was then. Now her Instagram followers top 100,000, and several of her more recent videos rate several hundred thousand views. Her Facebook<\/a> account has more than 37,000 followers.<\/p>\n

The Appeal Of Ponyo The Guinea Pig<\/h3>\n

Our furry friends can sometimes be camera shy or too on-the-go to permit good photos. That\u2019s not Ponyo. She is quite the photogenic guinea pig! Amy, her owner, often comments about how laid-back Ponyo is and how bonded they are. Amy is a long-time guinea pig owner, having shared her life with them since she was 7 years old. Ponyo and Amy live in Virginia. Photos of Ponyo eating, snuggling, and helping Amy with college homework earned them a following. Then the family grew.<\/p>\n

Ponyo And Her Guinea Pig Friends<\/h3>\n

Several months after Ponyo\u2019s arrival, two guinea pig brothers joined the family. Finn<\/a> and Jake<\/a> are named after characters from the TV cartoon \u201cAdventure Time.\u201d Several months after that, a guinea pig sister brought the guinea pig family number to four. She was named Mei<\/a>, after a character in the Miyazaki film \u201cMy Neighbor Totoro.\u201d About a year later, Amy\u2019s brother surprised her with another guinea pig sister named Momo<\/a>. They were a happy five for a little more than two years. In early 2017, Amy announced that Jake lost a battle against a fast-acting cancer. The four became five again when another young male joined them. He\u2019s named Winston.<\/p>\n

Milestones Of Ponyo Piglet Of The Sea<\/h3>\n

Trips to the beach, a bamboo forest, a historic battlefield, road trips, looking at Christmas lights, visiting parks, the mountains, and Colonial Williamsburg \u2014 photos and videos all of these and more add to the fascination of Ponyo and her friends. But life isn\u2019t always easy. During the more than four years of posts, health scares have occurred. Ponyo overcame two ear infections and an ovarian cyst, while Momo and Winston both faced upper respiratory infections.<\/p>\n

As the guinea pigs\u2019 lives progressed, so did Amy\u2019s equipment. Additions of a new camera, backdrop, and lens helped the photos and videos to be even more technically perfect and appealing. And that gave rise to an Etsy store, Ponyos Prints<\/a>, that offers cards featuring images of Ponyo and friends.<\/p>\n

Popular Ponyo Posts<\/h3>\n

Still wondering about the appeal? Check out just a few of the popular posts. If you visit Ponyo’s Instagram or Facebook accounts, you’re sure to find others that you might like even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet Ponyo Piglet of the Sea, a guinea pig leading a fascinating life with her guinea pig pals that’s all captured on social media for the world to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-guinea-pig-fun"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/mammals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}