A Day in the Life...
I know you're still alive Charlie because you've posted. We'll send the piggy police out and you'll get water torture until we get the next installment!
Hehe...hold off on the water torture! I have found that there is a slightly bigger workload with 6 added pigs. Just slightly.
Here is an update:
Whiskey tops the scales at 2 lbs, 11 ounces and is just an all around laid back, chubby, friendly boy. Although he eats the hay, he believes its main purpose is to lay in. He lays about like an expert.
The three sows (Mocha, Truffles and Guinea) are now all together in the 2 by 4 grid C&C in the play room. Guinea herself tops the scale at 2 lbs, 5 oz. I put a hay box in the cage with aspen on the bottom and Guinea likes to lounge in there. She does move around more with the other three as company.
Truffles continues to be a riot. If you are in the room, she wants to know what you are up to and will stand on her hind legs to try and see. She makes it hard to sweep poops because she follows your hand around with her nose right on you and it tickles. She will also try and stand on the dustpan. I have learned that it is not too hard to pick her up anymore if I move fast and snatch her in the first try. I'm becoming much better at this "swoop-n-snatch" technique. Truffles is on pregnancy watch.
Mocha never came out of her hidey when she was in a cage by herself, but now that she is with the others she has gotten braver. I actually saw her using her front feet to test out the fleece ("Hmmmm, soft!") when I first put her in.
Precious and Angel are still freaking out when we come into the room. I've removed the hidey houses and will start working with them more once the other pigs go on Sunday. I learned that Angel is actually Precious' daughter.
I seem to spend my day sweeping poops and replenishing hay. Today, I cleaned Whiskey's cage and Precious and Angel's cage, weighed all the pigs and treated them with ivermectin (I noticed a lot of scratching going on with the three girls last night). Needless to say, lunch was a little late. No way am I going to be able keep my story going in the vein it was started. But that's why it's called "A day..." and not several days, lol.
Oh, I've taken pictures but I just can't figure out how to get them on photobucket. I'll bug my friend on Saturday to show me how to do it again.
Here is an update:
Whiskey tops the scales at 2 lbs, 11 ounces and is just an all around laid back, chubby, friendly boy. Although he eats the hay, he believes its main purpose is to lay in. He lays about like an expert.
The three sows (Mocha, Truffles and Guinea) are now all together in the 2 by 4 grid C&C in the play room. Guinea herself tops the scale at 2 lbs, 5 oz. I put a hay box in the cage with aspen on the bottom and Guinea likes to lounge in there. She does move around more with the other three as company.
Truffles continues to be a riot. If you are in the room, she wants to know what you are up to and will stand on her hind legs to try and see. She makes it hard to sweep poops because she follows your hand around with her nose right on you and it tickles. She will also try and stand on the dustpan. I have learned that it is not too hard to pick her up anymore if I move fast and snatch her in the first try. I'm becoming much better at this "swoop-n-snatch" technique. Truffles is on pregnancy watch.
Mocha never came out of her hidey when she was in a cage by herself, but now that she is with the others she has gotten braver. I actually saw her using her front feet to test out the fleece ("Hmmmm, soft!") when I first put her in.
Precious and Angel are still freaking out when we come into the room. I've removed the hidey houses and will start working with them more once the other pigs go on Sunday. I learned that Angel is actually Precious' daughter.
I seem to spend my day sweeping poops and replenishing hay. Today, I cleaned Whiskey's cage and Precious and Angel's cage, weighed all the pigs and treated them with ivermectin (I noticed a lot of scratching going on with the three girls last night). Needless to say, lunch was a little late. No way am I going to be able keep my story going in the vein it was started. But that's why it's called "A day..." and not several days, lol.
Oh, I've taken pictures but I just can't figure out how to get them on photobucket. I'll bug my friend on Saturday to show me how to do it again.
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Tracis
- Let Sleeping Pigs Lie
All the piggies sound so cute! I'm glad they are settling in nicely.
You're absolutely right about the workload increasing, so I'll have to be content with the periodic updates.
I hope you get a chance to post the photos this weekend!
I'm also a little curious about the fostering process. Do you get the background/history of each piggy when you take them in? (if it's known, that is!)
You're absolutely right about the workload increasing, so I'll have to be content with the periodic updates.
I hope you get a chance to post the photos this weekend!
I'm also a little curious about the fostering process. Do you get the background/history of each piggy when you take them in? (if it's known, that is!)
These pigs came from one rescue to another because our rescue had some room and the other one didn't. Almost all of them were first released to a shelter first. Yes, we are told as much as is known.
Sometimes when they are pulled from a shelter, very little is known of the pigs background. When I pulled Izabo and Pig Fun Skipper (the two I adopted) I was told what dates they came into the shelter. The person who released Pig Fun said she was 3 months old and that she was the only female in an "accidental" litter of 5. They claimed that she had been in with her 4 male siblings until she was two months old (needless to say, she was on pregnancy watch initially).
Izabo was released by a lady that also had a ferret and cat. She was supposedly 3 years old. Neither the former owner nor the shelter workers apparently knew how to sex the pigs because they had her listed as a boy and had her named "Diamond." Oh, and the owner apparently claimed that Izabo used a litterbox.
That last thing is rather funny because guess who uses the litterbox in the cage? Yes, it's Pig Fun Skipper! Izabo doesn't go anywhere near it.
Sometimes when they are pulled from a shelter, very little is known of the pigs background. When I pulled Izabo and Pig Fun Skipper (the two I adopted) I was told what dates they came into the shelter. The person who released Pig Fun said she was 3 months old and that she was the only female in an "accidental" litter of 5. They claimed that she had been in with her 4 male siblings until she was two months old (needless to say, she was on pregnancy watch initially).
Izabo was released by a lady that also had a ferret and cat. She was supposedly 3 years old. Neither the former owner nor the shelter workers apparently knew how to sex the pigs because they had her listed as a boy and had her named "Diamond." Oh, and the owner apparently claimed that Izabo used a litterbox.
That last thing is rather funny because guess who uses the litterbox in the cage? Yes, it's Pig Fun Skipper! Izabo doesn't go anywhere near it.
Oh, I've taken pictures but I just can't figure out how to get them on photobucket. I'll bug my friend on Saturday to show me how to do it again.
It's Monday! Where's the pic's? I'm dying to see these cuties!
It's Monday! Where's the pic's? I'm dying to see these cuties!
Pigs are still here for now. I will give this a try. Forgive the delay as my 8 year old has been sick with the flu since Sunday night.
Here is Truffles:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i77/W ... MG0825.jpg
Here is Truffles:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i77/W ... MG0825.jpg
Last edited by WICharlie on Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:55 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Ugh - it's not there or something's not working right. If you want you can email it and I can post for you.
I hope your son feels better. The stomach flu is the pits.
I hope your son feels better. The stomach flu is the pits.
Ack! I wanted the picture to go on my post! I am so technically challenged. I will have to settle for posting links. Maybe that better as I see the photos are huge.
Here's Precious and Angel:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i77/W ... MG0817.jpg
Guinea:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i77/W ... MG0790.jpg
Whiskey:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i77/W ... MG0810.jpg
That above should read "Edited 14 times trying to get it to work...to no avail!).
Here's Precious and Angel:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i77/W ... MG0817.jpg
Guinea:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i77/W ... MG0790.jpg
Whiskey:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i77/W ... MG0810.jpg
That above should read "Edited 14 times trying to get it to work...to no avail!).
They're all gorgeous! I love Whiskey and Truffles. Whiskey looks like he's guarding the hay.
Photobucket is also not my friend! Especially when I have to resize.
Photobucket is also not my friend! Especially when I have to resize.
They are adorable! I love Whiskey's lips and if Truffle had more 'rough' spots he'd look a lot like Rod. More.
As the "tech idiot" of the decade, don't give up. It's not the process, it's the pictures that count. Somebody is always ready to help, but looks like you are a success!
As the "tech idiot" of the decade, don't give up. It's not the process, it's the pictures that count. Somebody is always ready to help, but looks like you are a success!
SHOP AMAZON 
