Dantyllew is 4 wheeks old!

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Baby Dante is 4 wheeks old tomorrow, quite small still at 316g but a huge personality!
Champion wheeker to rival big sister Frida, destroyer of haycubes, fearless giant broccoli chomper, biter of hoomans, crazy zoomy popcorn athlete, houdini style escape artist, and all round King of Pigs :)
I think being born in his forever home has given him a certain confidence, he swaggers about like he owns the place!
 
Here's big sister ginger muffin Frida with the angry eyebrows who is 3 months old, and gorgeous chocolate mum Hilda, who live across the room :)
Auntie Gladys is hiding in a haystack, she's a bit of a scaredy pig sometimes and found the paper bags at playpen time a bit too rustly for comfort!
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PigglePuggle said:
Apples are the lesson for next Wednesday, after Sainsbury's have been :)
Dante's favourite food lesson is babycorn, but he also enjoys his boarly how-to-wee-everywhere-then-roll-in-it lessons a fair bit too!
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I think I need to come and do a Piggy Ofsted, just to make sure the standard is “Outstanding “
 
Today Dante learned about secret coded messages sent via water bottle rattles!
Blod had a drink and tapped out a message to Theo. Theo replied on his water bottle. Dante was amazed, clung to the wall by the water bottle like a little fluffy bat, doing a hilarious comedy double-take- how did you do that Uncle Theo? You talked to the lady without any wheeks? What is this non-wheeking talking with the magic signals?
It was just like I remember being as my 3 year old self when I realised grown-ups read big thick books without any pictures and still knew what all the words meant lol.
It's lovely when Theo casually teaches Dante a thing and he looks soooo impressed, then he follows Theo devotedly nose-to-bum for an hour pestering him to show him the grown up magic trick again :)
 
Betsy said:
AWWWWW
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I wish I could get more pigtures of Dante but he's very fast and very chocolatey-cryptic-quantum like Tallulah hippo used to be, even in plain sight his chocolate bits are quite mysterious, and he doesn't keep still! Or keep quiet, he constantly broadcasts his position, mood, intentions to anyone who will listen, and so does his half-sister Frida- even from another room in the middle of the night I know exactly what these two are plotting from opposite sides of the piggy room, and so does half the neighbourhood :)
 
PigglePuggle said:
I wish I could get more pigtures of Dante but he's very fast and very chocolatey-cryptic-quantum like Tallulah hippo used to be, even in plain sight his chocolate bits are quite mysterious, and he doesn't keep still! Or keep quiet, he constantly broadcasts his position, mood, intentions to anyone who will listen, and so does his half-sister Frida- even from another room in the middle of the night I know exactly what these two are plotting from opposite sides of the piggy room, and so does half the neighbourhood :)
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Chocolate Pig Syndrome, as I call it.
 
Lorcan said:
Chocolate Pig Syndrome, as I call it.
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Chocolate piggies are just too precious to allow themselves to be captured on camera, and Dante's fur texture combination is really tricky- he's probably going to be an aspiring sheltie/aby cross of some kind- his chocolate bits and ginger bits have different textures and are growing in different directions, to different lengths, even in real life he looks out of focus!
His adult coat is sure to be magnificent, floofy, and high maintenance, but right now we have more furdo possibilities than piglet- every day he grows a slightly new look, and his chocolatey bits get ginger brindling, and white tufts, long bits, spiky bits, coarse textured bits, silky bits, I can't even quite count the ginger to chocolate paw ratio he dances so fast (I think it is 2 ginger, one chocolate, one brindled, there's definitely 1 chocolate and 2 ginger feet but I think on the 4th paw he changes his socks!) :)
 
Well, if he's anything like a certain other sheltie I once knew, he'll be an absolute diva the minute you try to do anything that involves grooming, because why not be a contrary pain in the bum? I bet he'll rock that furdo whatever it finishes up at.
 
Lovely to see all these pictures of your beautiful piggies. 😍😍😍
 
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