Small Animals for Adoption

Calling all science enthusiasts! Do you love learning about the natural world? Do you enjoy experimenting and discovering new things? Science Guy could be the piggie for you! Science Guy can’t wait to come home with you to hear about your discoveries and curiosities. Science Guy prefers to hang out in luxury on a pile of hay, just waiting to see what snacks (and discoveries!) you have to show him. Science Guy is pretty laid back and enjoys brief lap time sessions in a cuddle sack while receiving gentle back and neck strokes. If you’re looking for a cuddle buddy to curl up with while watching nature documentaries, he’s your guy!  He provides a lovely calmness to balance out your busy day. He can’t wait to meet you!

If science gets you excited, Bill Nye could be the piggie for you!  Bill is ready to share your exuberance when you’ve made a new discovery and is quite the explorer once he feels safe.  He loves investigating tunnels and crumpled paper balls in his exercise pen.  Bill is ready to entertain you with his energetic antics and absolutely adores mealtime.  He will wheek with excitement and popcorn as soon as he hears you fixing his bowl.  After all that nutrition, dinner is always followed by a good session of the zoomies.  Bill’s special talent is lightening the mood when you’ve had a long day.  He is excited to meet you!

Cannellini is a chiptune cyber punk piggie, always experimenting with new sounds. She’s excited for all kinds of treats and veggies and will definitely let you know it! Cannellini lives in foster care with her offspring, two lady-piggies in foster care, though she could easily either live on her own OR join her two kiddos in their adoptive home, since everyone seems to get along quite well. One on one with humans, though, she’s always down for some attention if you’ve got a snack handy for her!

At first, we thought Cannellini was a bit of a Regina George kinda gal, since she was very…assertive.. with the two other guinea pigs she’d been living with, but as it turned out… she was just making sure she could be the best guinea pig mom she could be! Cannellini turned out to be an expecting mother during the summer, and gave birth to two little potatoes on Sept 11th of this year. Post-delivery, this girl is full of personality and loves to have someone in the room with her to have dinner with (she will literally holler to get your attention and then calm down and start snacking as soon as she sees it’s a familiar face bringing food). She’s been away from pigs her age for a couple months, so it might take a little bit to get her used to other “adults” again, but she adapts to any situation with pluck and aplomb!

You can check out Cannellini and her kiddos being cuties here!

These two little baby beans are our newest bundles of guinea pig joy! They’re around a month old and doing great with weaning onto solids and off of momma’s milk. We are aiming to place Orzo and Gnocchi together, since guinea pigs greatly benefit from having a buddy to prevent loneliness. An adopter would also have the option to adopt Cannellini, the mother of Gnocchi and Orzo, though it is not required. They do all get along very well and love chattering at one another.

Gnocchi has shown the heart of an adventurer from the day she arrived! She loves exploring new places, especially by way of zoomies after breakfast or when rooting around for dinner snacks. She loves chattering away with her sister and would do great anywhere she can get some good playtime in.

Orzo is a little more on the shy side, but still bursting with energy – as she will happily demonstrate by popcorning around any time food is involved, or just because she’s excited to be here – Orzo loves to watch everything that’s going on before following her sister’s lead.

Age: ~1 month (date of birth 9/11/25)
Animal ID#s: A180582 & A180581

Location: foster care- this pet is not at the shelter! Please email adoptions@phillypaws.org for more information.