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Speaker 1: Time the National cav Show the National Guinea Pig Show

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Speaker 1: being held in Mephin over one hundred breeders, over two

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Speaker 1: hundred guinea pigs. I'm not sure when I expected rolling

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Speaker 1: in there. I think I hadn't in my head that

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Speaker 1: it was going to be like a chicken show, a

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Speaker 1: fanciers show, the AMP show, you know when you walk

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Speaker 1: into the room and there's just cages and things on

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Speaker 1: display everywhere. But no, Instead, it was very classy. They

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Speaker 1: had this big banquet table set up and round by

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Speaker 1: round all of the exhibitors would present their guinea pigs,

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Speaker 1: and then judges from as far away as Scotland and

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Speaker 1: even Sweden, in their lab coats or so looked, would

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Speaker 1: pick up and examine the guinea pigs and then award

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Speaker 1: the different ribbons and whatnot. I've got a bit of

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Speaker 1: footage on the hawk and a wey Ashburton facebook page

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Speaker 1: story if you didn't catch that. Somebody I bumped into

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Speaker 1: our local breeder and I can't believe she's still at

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Speaker 1: it because it would be the thick end of a

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Speaker 1: quarter a century ago that I first ran into Sandra

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Speaker 1: Smith around by the Intermediate and she gifted me with

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Speaker 1: my first pets, which were three guinea pigs, Ashley, Pepsi,

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Speaker 1: and Fena. I asked, do you remember me, Sandra, as

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Speaker 1: we bumped into each other on said day.

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Speaker 2: You'll be written in the book somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Really you keep a record of all your transactions mostly yes.

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Speaker 3: What number are we up to? How many guinea pigs

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Speaker 3: have you adopted over the years.

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Speaker 2: I'm up to nearly ten thousand. I've got nine nine

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Speaker 2: two hundred and something, so really years?

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Speaker 3: How long you've been doing it for? Have you keep

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Speaker 3: an account of that?

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Speaker 2: I started off when I was five or six. I

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Speaker 2: was allowed one guinea pig and one rabbit, so that

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Speaker 2: they couldn't read.

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Speaker 3: Because they were wise parents.

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Speaker 2: My father used to say they breed like flies. Well,

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Speaker 2: if he knew I'd reread nellly ten thousand, he might

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Speaker 2: believe that that's all been quite quite well under control.

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Speaker 2: I don't don't read, you know, regardless, and just have them.

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Speaker 3: All over the place, you know, why, guinea pigs.

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Speaker 2: I've just always liked them, and it's always been a

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Speaker 2: pet that you could start off with as a child.

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Speaker 2: That's sort of It's not like having a pet sheep

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Speaker 2: or a cow that you need bedroom.

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Speaker 1: No, she was breeding that many say sheep or cows

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Speaker 1: in a town section. Then I think the council would

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Speaker 1: have words with Sandra. So wonderful that she's still there,

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Speaker 1: still our local breeder. The big advice that she would

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Speaker 1: have their companion pets. So you need a couple of

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Speaker 1: guinea pigs to get you going, and adopting a couple

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Speaker 1: of females is usually the way to go. Is the

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Speaker 1: boys like to brawl and growing up in a family

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Speaker 1: of three brothers, turns out we're not so different after all.

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Speaker 1: So wonderful to see you and all of the locals

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Speaker 1: at something a little different from the National Guinea Pig

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Speaker 1: Show and Mefin on set today