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This woman quit her job to make lucrative guinea pig videos

This woman quit her job to make lucrative guinea pig videos

One woman on YouTube kissed her job goodbye, thanks to a lucrative vlogging career that has gone to the pigs — well, guinea pigs, that is.
 
Laura Mellors is a 29-year-old former account manager from England who is raking in the dough with guinea pig videos.
 
The former account manager started creating videos of her furry little friends’ daily lives for YouTube in 2010 on her account “PiggiePigPigs.” Yes, you really did just read that.
 
Mellors says she started the vlog out of boredom. It now has more than 55,000 subscribers and, collectively, more than 10 million video views. The hobby turned into a business when she started making about $3,000 a month off advertising on the videos and guinea pig products sold through her shop.  The online store sells such items as fleece hideouts, cage decorations, and feeding products.
 
She says of her unusual success story, “People seem to love the videos. It’s a joy to do something for a living which is also a passion.” Her fans can’t get enough of the guinea pig clips. One person writes on a recent video: “Your vlogs bring a smile to my face and always relax me.”
 
Laura and her husband, James, live in Nottingham, in central England, with their seven guinea pigs, Gizmo, Billy, Bobby, Fozzy Bear, Brian, Bo, and Alfie.