It's Nevermore Night, Goth Piggies & Pals alike! Got a raven-haired piggy with a gothic attitude to match? Wheek no more! 🐹 🖤 💜 ✍️ 📚

"Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly sleeping,
suddenly there came a squeaking,
As of some piggy gently wheeking,
wheeking at my chamber door.
'Tis some furry visitor," I muttered,
'wheeking at my chamber door—
Only this, and nothing more.'

~ The Raven (adapted and abridged for guinea pigs), Edgar Allan Poe, 1845

If you hear a tapping or a wheeking at your chamber or cage-door tonight, take care and be aware! It's Raven Day, celebrating Gothic poet and mystery-horror writer Edgar Allan Poe!

If your guinea pig thrills to Gothic Romance, purple curtains or have a piggy penchant for sensationalist poetry? get out the treats and entertain your herd with a midnight reading of Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem about supernatural and prophesying big black birds.

The Raven, published this day in 1845, opens with the narrator grieving for a lost love, who is visited by a mysterious raven, a bird with a very negative outlook that speaks only one word, "Nevermore"!

Tantalize your poetical piggies with this famous party piece which will have them wheeking for more! But be sure to substitute "Wheek no more" for that fatal word in the subsequent verses!

Wheek! Wheek!