Our oldest son, Kevin, wanted a new pet so we decided on a guinea pig.  That’s how it all began – with just one pig!  My husband, Ed, came up with the name “Gip” that was his contribution.  We purchased Gip from a pet store in July, 2001.  Little did we know that just a year later we would be breeding and showing Teddies and loving every minute of it!!  We now have around 50 cavies and we started to show some of our own Teddies in Fall 2002.  The Garber’s Guineas line is a melding of BandiRose Cavies, Teddy Bear Teddies (TBT), TJ's Teddies, Val Horning and Echo’s Caviary.  We purchased out first brokens from Alaina Holstege and Jaylene and Ron Dixon and our skinnies from Terri Smoker.  We have been very fortunate to purchase quality stock from these breeders.

Kevin, 14, has been doing very well on the show tables in open and youth.  He is looking forward to working with the brokens that we purchased at the ARBA convention. Brandon, 11, has been doing well at the shows too and will continue to show his roans, agoutis and selfs.  Ryan, 8, and Logan, 5, haven't started showing yet but love to help out in the pig room holding and loving the pigs and handing out treats.  Ed is still our financial backer, driver, cage builder and consultant.  He thinks the skinnies are just here 'temporarily' until they find a home (ha ha).  I take care of the feeding while the boys take care of making sure the pigs have fresh water.   We have come a long way since getting started and we are still learning.  We have met a lot of great people in the past couple of years and we hope to meet many more.  We like to share what we have learned with newer breeders while making new friends in the fancy.

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