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Speaker 1: For the first time. The New Zealand TV show is

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Speaker 1: being held in Methin. I caught up with show manager

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Speaker 1: Andy Lorry, who's helping bring it all together, talking how

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Speaker 1: there's going to be over two hundred in that Mount

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Speaker 1: Hut Memorial Hall.

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Speaker 2: There's about forty different breeds that it'll be traveling from

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Speaker 2: all over New Zealand to compete. Oh my gosh, it's

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Speaker 2: our biggest show of the year. Everyone's competing for best

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Speaker 2: and show the best skinnea pig in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Do they travel? And I've heard there's something called the

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Speaker 1: pet bus that simply drives up and down the country

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Speaker 1: just charting pets to different locations.

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Speaker 2: There are a few animal carrier companies that lots of

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Speaker 2: kV breeders across New Zealand used. But I know we've

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Speaker 2: hired a special special van to take all the North

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Speaker 2: Islands and treatment.

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Speaker 1: Wow all right, Hey, what sort of preparation goes into

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Speaker 1: an event like this? How did the guinea pigs prepare?

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Speaker 1: How do you get the match fit?

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Speaker 2: So each guinea pig has to be well handled and

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Speaker 2: healthy and in good condition for a start before it

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Speaker 2: makes the trip. After that they all get groomed, so

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Speaker 2: all their loose hair needs to be out of their coat.

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Speaker 2: In terms of white ones, they need to be kept

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Speaker 2: really really clean so that there's no staining on their body.

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Speaker 2: And then they get their nails clipped and they all

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Speaker 2: get a bath in a blow dry and then popped

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Speaker 2: into a pristine cage ready for the journey and to

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Speaker 2: fulfill my hopes and dreams of winning Best in Show.

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Speaker 1: It all sounds so glamorous, darling, that's a spar escape. Hey,

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Speaker 1: so I've learned something from the get go here that

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Speaker 1: obviously the technical term for a guinea pig is a cavy,

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Speaker 1: which is weird because it sounds it sounds avery in nature,

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Speaker 1: like it's a bird.

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Speaker 2: It does a bit, so it's actually their Latin name,

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Speaker 2: so like a dog is canine or a cats' speedline.

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Speaker 1: Fascinating origin that guinea pigs have again, nothing to do

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Speaker 1: with Papa New Guinea, nothing at all.

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Speaker 2: No, the areas that they coughed a guinea, which was

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Speaker 2: very expensive when they first arrived.

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Speaker 1: In England, came to be no way.

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Speaker 2: So it was a pigs that cost the guinea.

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Speaker 1: Aren't they like South American in origin?

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Speaker 2: They are? Yeah, they come from South America and they're

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Speaker 2: still still kept there today. Although they're bread quite differently

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Speaker 2: they're they're actually bread for meat. So they're very very

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Speaker 2: large guinea pigs, not the ones Kiwis would be used

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Speaker 2: to seeing.

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Speaker 1: Well, what do you mean large guinea pigs? How big

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Speaker 1: do they get?

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Speaker 2: Probably about three times the size of the standard guinea

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Speaker 2: pig you would.

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Speaker 1: Have seen quite small, way between two.

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Speaker 2: And three quilo. So, just like purebred dogs, there's a

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Speaker 2: variation in breeds that might be a difference in the

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Speaker 2: shape of the guinea pig, or the color or the coats.

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Speaker 2: Some of them have rosettes all over the body, and

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Speaker 2: then there's long coats where their hair grows just like

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Speaker 2: people's here in inch a months. So you might see

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Speaker 2: one of them that's got nine or ten inches of

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Speaker 2: hair being shown.

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Speaker 1: Wow, the of guinea pigs do you think?

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Speaker 2: You call them fabio and not trump?

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Speaker 1: What makes guinea pigs such great pets? You reckon, Andy?

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Speaker 2: If pets? They're pretty easy care, they don't smell as

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Speaker 2: much as some other animals, and they do have a

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Speaker 2: bit more personality than people give them credit for. Once

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Speaker 2: you get to know them. Lots of different cute noises

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: The thing I didn't realize is how much they eat

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Speaker 1: and how much they poop. Yeah, that we palettes almost

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Speaker 1: like rodents, right.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yep, so they are a rodent and they eat

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Speaker 2: about their body weight a day.

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Speaker 1: We're not so different after all people. So it feels

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Speaker 1: some days, what do they like to eat?

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Speaker 2: So they eat a lot of hay, and then they

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Speaker 2: need a little bit of dry feed, so something like

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Speaker 2: a lucern palette. And then it's really important that they

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Speaker 2: get daily fresh veggies because they're like people. They can't

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Speaker 2: store or create their own vitamin C. So they're one

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Speaker 2: of the few animals that are like us in that respect.

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Speaker 2: They need daily vitamin C.

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Speaker 1: Something else that used to surprise me and induce a

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Speaker 1: bit of panic from time to time, as well as

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Speaker 1: just how quick guinea pigs are. You know, you let

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Speaker 1: them loose and they just take off like a rocket.

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Speaker 1: You ever had one escape in the middle of a show, Andy, Not.

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Speaker 2: In the middle of the show, but I have had

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Speaker 2: at home. Because they are a prey animal, so naturally

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Speaker 2: they do a pause and assess the situation, and then

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Speaker 2: if they decide that there might be danger, they run

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Speaker 2: really quick. So my first guinea pigs when I was

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Speaker 2: a d I took to school and they escaped and

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Speaker 2: got under the school building and lived there for three

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Speaker 2: days while we all tried to catch them.

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Speaker 1: How'd you get them out? How'd you lure them out?

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Speaker 2: I had to get under there and grab them, so

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Speaker 2: covered in dirt, but I