6 Days Without The Pigs & I'm Freaking Out!

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In a couple of weeks I'm due to go down to London for work. It means leaving the pigs for 6 night and I'm really anxious about it.

I live with my Mum so she'll be there to feed them and watch them etc, so I'm not worried about that but I'm really nervous about leaving them.

This might sound stupid but I'm worried they'll think I've abandoned them.
I have a very close bond with them, they run to the door when they hear I've came home from work (they get to run around out their cage during the day) and I'm the only person they'll willingly go to.

A few months ago I was off work ill for a month (so spent a lot more time with the pigs) and when I went back to work my Mum told me Toast seemed really depressed for a few days when I wasn't there.

I know this probably seems a really ridiculous thing to be worried about, but they're not just pets to me. I spent most of my free time with them so it'll be really weird to spent so much time away from them.

How does everyone manage to go away on holiday and not worry too much? :hmm:
 
I'm such a soppy thing that I won't go away for more than a week at a time now. 2 years ago was our last long holiday. 2 weeks away from my piggies was just awful I felt so homesick for them. So now we have shorter holidays and I can just about cope with that. My piggies go to a fantastic piggy and bunny hotel. They are amazingly well looked after and have a lovely holiday, too. But I still miss them terribly. So I know exactly how you feel. Just ask your mum to send you snap chats or what's apps of them!
 
I went away last week, the pigs were looked after by my OH. I got updates on them every evening but I still worried. I know it's silly, they were fed and watered, poop picked every day and had a complete cage change, everything I would have done. To be honest I don't think as long as their little bellies are full they worry too much. Mine were apparently a bit quiet the first couple of evenings, they do zoomies and get lively when we sit down together and talk, they particularly like the scrabble tiles clinking (piggies are in our living room).
Try to relax and enjoy yourself, Beans and Toast will be well looked after by your Mum. I'm sure we miss them more than they miss us!
 
Now i have a terminal piggy (still doing amazingly well), i wont leave her at all anymore. I had to work away for 5 days.. She came with me! I cant bear to leave her. I took her and he cagemate away, and left my other pair with my sister.. I know it sounds terrible, but i was confident mallow and poppet where well looked after, and felt at ease because i had fudge with me! I love them all, but fudge and i have a special bond due to nursing her through her bad health. Shes my wee sidekick!
 
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels like this!

I know they'll be well looked after, my Mum loves them. And I'm lucky that we live 2 minutes away from an excellent piggy vet who also has O.O.H in the practice so I know if anything was to happen they'd be seen to.

I'm worried about Toast in particular.
She gets bloat quite a lot so I'm worried my Mum may not pick up on the signs.. but I know she'll phone me if she's concerned.
Beans is a very self sufficient piggy with a stomach of steel so as much as I'll miss her I know she'll be fine :P

I think I'm just nervous about not being there, I absolutely adore my pigs and I hate being apart from them.
I'll just need to spoil them with treats when I get back home! :drool:
 
We took the piggies away with us for a week last year, I worried about them all day when we were out of the cottage. What if something happened to us while we were out and no one realised we hadn't come back? My OH keeps dropping hints about wanting to go away together again this year, I can't bear the thought, I'd rather stay home!
 
I managed 8 days without the pigs last September. I'm in no hurry to repeat the experience, which is a shame as I'd love a week's holiday somewhere. Mum and bro looked after them so I knew they were in good hands & looked after just as they would be if I were here but it was still such a wrench. I messaged my bro a million times a day for pictures and updates. I remember standing in the queue to check in and my bro sent me pics of them & I was crying because I wanted to be at home with them. It was the best feeling ever to come home to them, Fudge fell asleep on me - legs out, eyes closed and everything!
 
I missed my recently passed piggie Sam so much when I went away in May that I downloaded Skype to video call my brother just so I could see Sam as I missed him so much!
 
When we went away for two weeks one of our piggies who has recently passed, was in such a bad mood with us for a few days when we came back, when we came back he looked at us and then turned his back on us, I am currently staying back at mum n dads for a holiday for a few days and I am face timing my other piggie to make sure he still knows I am thinking of him
 
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