Hey, I’m Joshua Frank.

recovering addict/alcoholic, founder of Lion in the Lamb Entertainment, and the guy who just incorporated The Grateful Guinea Project today (December 5, 2025).

I’m raising $21,000 to launch the world’s first addiction-recovery program that uses daily guinea-pig care as the core therapy.

Guinea pigs are herd animals. Keeping one alone is cruelty. Addiction wants the same thing: isolation.

When someone walks into treatment carrying nothing but shame, we hand them a pair of guinea pigs and say, “These two now depend on you 100 %. If you don’t show up sober, they suffer.”

That simple responsibility (fresh veggies, spot-clean, floor time, gentle handling) becomes relapse prevention you can literally pet.

Every dollar of this $21,000 goal (after standard processing fees) builds the pilot:

10 proper herds, our first licensed counselor, vet partnership, downtown classroom, and free “second-pig” adoptions for every lonely guinea pig in Lane County.

From solitary to sober, one pair at a time.

If you’ve ever been lonely, ever needed a reason to get out of bed, or ever believed something smaller than you could save your life, join the herd.

Let’s prove recovery can be as simple as hay, veggies, and never keeping anyone alone again.

All materials created for Grateful Guinea Project—including the guinea-pig therapy curriculum, relapse-prevention protocols, care logs, and outcome data—will be released immediately into the public domain under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. You can copy, teach, adapt, or scale it anywhere for therapeutic use, no permission needed; just credit us. We own the name and mission, but never the blueprint—so no patent, no buy-out, no shelving. If it works, it belongs to everyone who needs it.