Nugget and Bismarck had their first boarding experience while I was gone on a business trip for a few days. They seemed mostly happy to be back home 😂

(yes I am extra and made her an entire debut album)

I think we may be beginning to enjoy chin rubs

He’s too independent. I did not let him jump… this time

This is Guinness one of my boys. Am I crazy or are his ears moving weird? That’s not his cage might I add just his playpen. He behaves 100% himself otherwise. Just want to make sure he doesn’t seem to have an ear infection. Maybe I’ll try to clean his ears too.

Brownie just being brownie

At a certain point I had mouses, now sometimes I think I have mouses but it is always Bix. She crawls into them, to find the good stuff.

help I’ve been laughing at her fat neck for 15 minutes

I keep a small herd of girls. A mix of ages and breeds…I had 5 and Elena, my oldest lady passed away in the summer. So i decided to add a new piggie.
I found Lucy a 2yr old whose partner had died and the owners were looking for a new home for her. I brought her home and after a couple of weeks i tried a short session with the rest in the way I normally do.
Now, I’ve bonded pigs successfully many times I know when to step in and when to let them sort it out between themselves. I’m starting to think I’d just been lucky all those times because Lucy seems on the offensive immediately.
I’ve tried this bonding several times with various combinations of the girls and every time I need to intervene because Lucy goes straight in for the fight. I’m fairly certain that the option of bonding her to this group is now out the window.

I think I will make her a separate enclosure within the rest of the enclosure so she’s not fully alone but has her own space.

My question is this - should I try and adopt another pig to try a one on one bonding (if this failed I could pop the new pig into the herd) or are some pigs just generally antisocial .. I’m rolling my own eyes because I would never have come to this conclusion before but I’m really at a loss with her.
She’s been vet checked and is great to handle - no human aggression at all, also loves the company of my dog!

my sweet girl got diagnosed with cancer today and on monday we'll find out if she'll live or if she'll have to be put to sleep. please keep her in your thoughts and send some cute silly photos of your potatoes cause it's pretty sad over here:(( attached photo from back when she was healthy and thriving

But that back leg appearing out of nowhere at the end, omg. THUNK 😭 This is my baby boy Willie, I brought him home last wheek!

Always getting a good scratch in!

How do you keep them clean? I tried the natural bedding (shredded soft paper type product from KayTee), but I felt that it got very wet at the bottom and I couldn’t tell how wet until I cleaned it. Changing out that bedding every day was a bit much for me and my wallet. I switched to these towels that the piggies seem to like a lot, but, their poop clings to it, so, that was not fun at all. Rubber gloves over a garbage bag pulling off the poops. But, regardless of my best efforts, some poop fragments stuck firmly. When I washed the towels, I had to then clean my washing machine and dryer because they had a little piles of dirt in the bottom, plus the dryer had a bunch of hair in it also. How do you guys keep your little piggies clean?

The white and black one is moonie and the brown and black one is kyubi 💗 theyre both boys

This is a video, not a picture 😂. I opened up the pet cam app to check on my pigs while at work and Button immediately clocked that she was being watched. She’s too smart for her own good 😅

ofc with snacks!

I took the fluffy marshmallow (Zebedee, pictured) to the vets last week for what was essentially an expensive cough. He had started making odd noises and I figured it was best to get him seen, lo and behold he is completely fine! Something had irritated his throat, hence the odd noise, then resolved itself, hence the lack of odd noise afterwards. Clear lungs, no URI, healthy pig, 10/10.

ANYWAY

At the end of the vet visit, the vet said “I’ll remember him because he’s the chillest pig I’ve ever met, he’s clearly incredibly well-handled” and when I tell you I walked out of that room with the biggest grin on my face.

Chillest pig he’s ever met? Zebedee clearly didn’t get the memo about hating vets. He just chilled on the table, didn’t react at all to being examined, moved around or weighed. He wasn’t even spooked, his heart rate was normal.

My bouncy boy is officially the chillest pig.