Candy's Animal Ark

Candy's Animal Ark CLOSED FOR BUSINESS High quality holiday boarding exclusively for guinea pigs. Open seasonally from April 1st

A very belated Happy New Year to all! Why are we so late? Well, so many things have happened and the consequences of tho...
22/01/2025

A very belated Happy New Year to all! Why are we so late? Well, so many things have happened and the consequences of those are that sadly we are having to close The Ark.

We opened in 2009 and from that moment Laura (and Su) have been lucky enough to run a hugely successful venture. It has all been the most tremendous fun and massive privilege. Along the way we have met and made so many friends both furry and human! Thank you. We are signing off for a while. A well earned rest for Laura. We are thinking of it as not the end of an era, but a start to a new one.

We’ll leave you with some pictures of our herd as of this moment - so Laura will still have her “fix of furries” and a tranquil picture of The Ark. Who knows what the future will hold but we think we can safely say it will include a few guinea pigs of our own!!

It’s CHRISTMAAASSSS !! From our herd to your herd, merry chomping and a wheeking good year !! To all our human family, f...
21/12/2024

It’s CHRISTMAAASSSS !!

From our herd to your herd, merry chomping and a wheeking good year !!

To all our human family, friends, customers and followers - we wish you the best of this season and hope you enjoy a happy and healthy time. Relax and enjoy.

Talking of relaxing – here’s our “lot” starting their feast. Polly and Anna snuggled in for Christmas – that face!! Also Banoffee, Blueberry and Tinsel preparing to wait for their visit from Santa. Banoffee and Blueberry are particularly excited, as it’s their first Christmas – they’ve put in rather a long list to Santa!

May all your wishes come true. As usual, thank you so much for trusting us with your precious piggies and for all your custom throughout the year. We will see you next year and until then, keep healthy and happy.

With our love

Laura and Su
xx

Awww! It’s the end of term – well, our end of term anyway. As you all go back to school and we head towards Christmas (w...
07/11/2024

Awww! It’s the end of term – well, our end of term anyway. As you all go back to school and we head towards Christmas (what a thought!) we, of course, close for the season. It’s sad for us, as all our furry friends go home and we have to wait until next April to holiday with them all again. You can always have nails clipped though and don’t forget the spot on – keep those nasty itches away!

We couldn’t go without a last look at some of our guests and a big thank you to you all for trusting us with such precious things. We hope we got it right and will see you and your furry family members next season. We’ll be posting our own updates so stay tuned. For now, stay safe and warm.

When Cookie, who belonged to Matt and Bethany, went to start her new life over the rainbow bridge, she left behind some ...
07/11/2024

When Cookie, who belonged to Matt and Bethany, went to start her new life over the rainbow bridge, she left behind some treats that time didn’t allow her to finish.

As she couldn’t be with us personally over this half term, we kept her with us in spirit and distributed her donated goodies out between our guests.

You can see Py and Theo and Bill and Ted enjoying some of the edibles and everyone benefited from her donation. We even used the sawdust in the cat’s box mixed with some catnip! It was very popular indeed!

A last thank you then to Cookie and a fitting memory to a long standing and much loved guest.

Remember our babies Banoffee and Blueberry? Here they are, now 8 months old and having a frightful time! It’s their firs...
29/10/2024

Remember our babies Banoffee and Blueberry? Here they are, now 8 months old and having a frightful time! It’s their first “Hallowheek” but they’re not afraid of no ghosts.

In fact Banoffee is trying the “trick” of a creep up on Tinsel to include her in the “spirit” of the season. Tinsel is far too chilled for that and understands the “treat” part better!

We have fun here at The Ark, whatever the season, but we do keep our doors firmly closed as too much screaming frightens the little ones, so no tricks or treats here – anyway we have enough monsters of our own!!

Remember to keep your pets calm and covered to create a safe haven away from noise and fireworks. Even inside pets can be stressed by a noisy party.

Have fun – stay safe.

It’s Guinea Pig Awareness Week! We have been aware of guinea pigs since the school piggies came home for their holidays,...
24/09/2024

It’s Guinea Pig Awareness Week! We have been aware of guinea pigs since the school piggies came home for their holidays, over 25 years ago!!

In that time, we have had so many pass through The Ark, some have lived to a grand old age and sadly, some went too soon.

However, every one of them we remember with love and fond memories. Guinea pigs are very special to us and always will be.

Here’s Laura’s current herd – Banoffee, Polly, Blueberry, Anna and Tinsel. Never say never to additions!

Happy Guinea Pig Awareness “Wheek” to you all and much love to all your piggies too!

For the Sims family, a picture of Cookie - one of our best and frequent customers, who joined her sister, Caramel, over ...
24/09/2024

For the Sims family, a picture of Cookie - one of our best and frequent customers, who joined her sister, Caramel, over the rainbow bridge a few weeks ago and who we will miss seeing for their holidays in the future.

As we were unclipping the run shades for storage until next year, we could hear the geese honking their goodbyes as they...
24/09/2024

As we were unclipping the run shades for storage until next year, we could hear the geese honking their goodbyes as they flew off on their winter holidays. Formation flying from the River Lea is an impressive sight.

A reminder that summer is well and truly over and when Anna piggy wants to share her pod for the night with sister Polly, we know the chills are setting in!

Time to prepare for winter but not before we have seen off our half term visitors and reminisced on our wonderful guests we have welcomed in over this year.

Here’s our gallery so far – we would say the best of the best, but like any lover of animals, who can choose? What do you think? We know your own baby is always No. 1 but you can “like” the others and we can see the results.

Go on, you know you want to!

Here we are again! It’s time for us to relax a little – not completely as we remain open until the end of October half-t...
02/09/2024

Here we are again! It’s time for us to relax a little – not completely as we remain open until the end of October half-term for boarding – but the rush has ended and the last of our guests went home today.

The summer holidays are, of course, the busiest time for us and we wonder if something will burst at the seams. It never does and then suddenly, it’s all over.

Thank goodness Laura chose a happy profession and we must thank you all for your lovely comments, little presents and the endless flow of little furry piggies.

Here’s the last of our summer "pigtures" - click on their photos to see their thoughts!

We’ll see them all again, but watch out for our "superpig" gallery, coming soon!

Phew! After all that cheering and jumping up and down supporting our GB team (well done to you all!) it’s time for some ...
20/08/2024

Phew! After all that cheering and jumping up and down supporting our GB team (well done to you all!) it’s time for some serious summer holiday behaviour. Whilst you humans have been swimming, snorkeling, climbing Everest and the like we, at home have been just as adventurous – albeit in a different way.

We’ve been trying so many different things too – pak choi, radishes, home grown cucumber, pea shoots and a sprinkling of rosemary over our pellets.

What do you think?

Who said “You lazy floofs?!”

Olympic games - we’re all watching, surely? Good luck Team GB - we’re all behind you! Here at The Ark we thought we wou...
08/08/2024

Olympic games - we’re all watching, surely? Good luck Team GB - we’re all behind you!

Here at The Ark we thought we would have our own Olympic Team, - Team GP (see what we did there?!). We thought it would be interesting to hold our own little games and so the select few were put to the test.

Points and prizes were awarded so click on the photos to see the results. Is your piggie a champion?

There are six in our winners’ gallery, who excelled in their particular talent.

Actually, they’re all gold medalists in our eyes and everybody had a prize of herbage treats afterwards - it was a fun day!

Hope you’re all having a five star holiday, wherever you are!

Summer holidays. Wahey! Firstly, of course there’s no work or school (hooray!). No-one to tell you what to do (whoop!) ...
26/07/2024

Summer holidays. Wahey! Firstly, of course there’s no work or school (hooray!). No-one to tell you what to do (whoop!) so your itinerary is yours.

Best of all there is the holiday food!! Oh boy, you’re allowed to eat – breakfast buffet, all you can eat lunch and the evening full on eat ‘till you bust. Laze all next day because, well, you’re on holiday!

Look at the pictures, they speak for themselves. Oh!.....you thought we meant you………………!

Enjoy!

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23 Harpenden Rise
Harpenden
AL53BG

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