Some idiot deleted my old YouTube account, so none of the videos before this thread will work now.
An update...
So, since the last update a guinea pig from Becklen came to live with us. Bailey arrived still skittish having lived alone after giving poor Helen a run for her money whenever she tried to pair him with some of her own boys.
Bailey has been living here for over a month and has settled into his position as being the "pretty boy" of the group. Well, he was the pretty boy until I gave his peruvian hair a "special haircut" because I felt his hair was covering my hands from advancing on him and he was startling from surprise.
I threatened to Susie_q about using him as a duster when I first met him and his mop of hair. She wasn't too thrilled to hear my plans for him, but now I think you'll all agree that I've settled on a less humiliating career path for him. He's now an Emma warmer
Things have cooled down in the cage enough that I'm now happy to let the pigs have floortime again. Four boars sharing one pellet bowl
must be a good sign, after all?
Free-range time means more room to torture the minds of my little piggums who have become lazy by having their food given to them. Today they were given Box O' Paper And Treats, which was basically an old hay box stuffed with shredded newspaper and laced with lettuce and kale.
Note: I'm aware that my boys aren't fail proof so the majority of the times I give them have plenty of escape routes should one pig decide to become a brat to the other pigs. This box had 3 escape routes.
Bailey didn't get it. He couldn't understand why I didn't just GIVE him the veggies and stood at his normal "feeding spot" in the cage and watched me while I told him how dumb he was being and tapped the box to point it out to him. He's lucky he's pretty and cute.
In another room...
Mimic seems to have picked a new snuggle spot. It use to be beneath the coffee table but recently he's changed it to wherever my feet are which is now normally under the table where I set up my computer.
The problem is that the floor is laminate and he likes to pee where he's napping and that doesn't make for a clean and pleasant-to-pick-up-pig. So today I gave Mimic his own bed.
No good pictures of Cashew today... if he's not stuffing his face or hidden he's too busy trying to stay away from me in case I'm hiding a syringe full of medication. One day he'll get a g-force "guinea pig language to english" ear piece and we'll be able to talk through our differences and the world will smile again... I'll also be sure to stress to him that I don't want to eat him. Except for when he's causing drama in the cage... but during those nights I don't want to eat him so much as... joking.
