Your Year 11 career’s advisor never told you about this job option.

One woman is now earning around £2000-a-month making YouTube videos all about her pet guinea pigs and selling related accessories.

Laura Mellors has now given up her job as an account manager at E-ON energy to concentrate on building her YouTube empire.


Ms Mellors, 29, spoke of the birth of her vlogging career: ‘The response has been amazing and it’s all down to the internet.

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‘I was just bored one day so I made a film about my guinea pigs Gus and Hercules.



‘I’d bought a new cage which gives them different compartments and levels to climb on and I was intrigued to see how they would react to it.

‘I uploaded the video to YouTube and within a few days I was getting really positive feedback and requests for more videos.’

Laura Mellors filming her American short hair guinea pigs Bobby and Billy (Picture: NTI)

She started uploading the videos in 2010 as a hobby, and the videos’ popularity has sky-rocketed and she now has a global following with 54,000 subscribers to her own YouTube channel, Piggiepigpigs.

Laura and husband James, 30, a project engineer, now share their Nottingham home with seven guinea pigs, Billy, Bobby, Fozzy Bear, Brian, Bo, Alfie and Gizmo.

Here is her most viewed video to date (it’s all about guinea pig cages):

Ms Mellor spoke about the full extent of her growing ‘celebrity’: ‘My guinea pigs are now followed and sent fan mail. People ask what they’re up to.

‘When I was at the London Pet show last year a little girl and her mum even came up and asked for my autograph.

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‘The strangest thing happened last October when I was honeymoon in Florida and I met some fans over there.

‘I’d told people on Facebook I was going to America on honeymoon and I got requests to meet them so I ended up meeting two families while I was there.’

Laura Mellors gives two-year-old Gizmo, Alpaca guinea pig a cuddle (Picture: NTI)

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