Cam vs Fleece

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The fleece lost, btw. No argument over that one.

If there's a hay cookie on the go, Cam drags into bed to eat. I have been unable to get the dust...well, not dust, but if you've had hay cookies you know what I mean, but I can't get it off the fleece again so I swear half their bedding looks dirty and grimy before it even leaves the washing machine. It doesn't bother me in the sense I know what's gone on but I also feel like there's a ghost silently judging me for letting the fleece get that way, lol.

Anxiety is weird.

I'm not wrong in not doing anything about it, am I? I'm sure there's ways I could wash it to be rid of it entirely and so on but I feel like I'd be doing it for my benefit, not theirs? Especially if it's been washed and it's just a cosmetic reaction to Cam's hay cookie destruction shenanigans.
 
No I don't think you are wrong, getting too anxious about these things spoils the enjoyment of your piggies. I gave myself a strong talking too a few years ago when I found I was worrying over what after all are small things.
Most of my fleece has red pepper stains on it, something that would have bothered me a few years ago. I could wash it with bio and then wash it again with non bio to get rid of the bio, but that costs a lot more energy so I'll live with it! As for hay cookies, I know exactly what you mean. I brush my fleece off over the garden before washing and a harder brush gets most of it off but little bits still stick. My attitude is if it don't come off this time round it probably will the next. As for boar glue, that'll come off sometime, possibly never!
 
piggieminder said:
No I don't think you are wrong, getting too anxious about these things spoils the enjoyment of your piggies. I gave myself a strong talking too a few years ago when I found I was worrying over what after all are small things.
Most of my fleece has red pepper stains on it, something that would have bothered me a few years ago. I could wash it with bio and then wash it again with non bio to get rid of the bio, but that costs a lot more energy so I'll live with it! As for hay cookies, I know exactly what you mean. I brush my fleece off over the garden before washing and a harder brush gets most of it off but little bits still stick. My attitude is if it don't come off this time round it probably will the next. As for boar glue, that'll come off sometime, possibly never!
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I brush it off before it goes in because if I don't I get poop escapees in the machine :)) that's a messy clean up, no thanks!

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Just one of the pieces but it's probably the best example. I brushed that all down and still couldn't get it off!

@Ruth1 - unrelated but when I was clearing floor space for the clothes horse earlier I found this

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Lorcan said:
I brush it off before it goes in because if I don't I get poop escapees in the machine :)) that's a messy clean up, no thanks!

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Just one of the pieces but it's probably the best example. I brushed that all down and still couldn't get it off!

@Ruth1 - unrelated but when I was clearing floor space for the clothes horse earlier I found this

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Stickin out!
 
It's just the way piggy fleece gets if it has any sort of hay on it.. It's still perfectly clean and the pigs don't care, so neither should we!

I think it's worth bearing in mind that when you see photos of people's cages with all the lovely spotless fleece, they have generally just cleaned them out and put their nicest smartest liners in, as we all would if we were showing off. Hay dust and other stains don't look pretty in a photo, but they're part of everyday pig life!
 
Ours take it as a personal insult and violation of their territory if we sweep up their poos, and even if we shake the poos off of their beds (as I often do just before going to bed myself). They react by running all over whatever part of the cage has just been denuded and immediately pooping on it to confirm their lordship.
 
I clean out the full cage while they're still in it because it's big enough. It's great for the first half of the cage. They refuse to leave their beds, shrieking bloody murder if I put the beds in a bag to get washed, and the second half? "Cam stop it." "No, Bann." "Cam that's my foot." "Bann stop eating the dustpan."
 
I find light coloured fleece are pain when you have a black haired piggie. The black hairs drive me to distraction! I think we would all like cages looking beautifully clean, poop free and hairless but the reality is totally different 😊

Life’s too short to worry
 
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