Eriathwens piggies

Such a beautiful piggy, I love her colour and markings.
I hope Daisy has many more months with you yet. I am sure her happy survival so far is down to your loving care.
 
Daisy days thankyou for all the kind words!

Got some kind of rubbish news a little while ago, I was giving the pigs their health checks while cleaning them out yesterday and found quite a few lumps in Paddintons armpits, so made him an appointment for today. Turns out most of his lymph nodes could be felt and he possibly has lymphoma, they're too small for a fine needle aspirate at the moment so we're waiting until they're bigger. I'm so fed up of cancer this year, on top of the issues with the pigs I've lost a human friend to it and had a scare with my Mum.. I'm very much sick of the word now :(
On the plus side, Padds is a very healthy, happy lump of a pig at the moment, so there's that.

I also found a pretty decent sized, hard lump on Baileys shoulder and she has an appointment on the 29th unless I can get a cancellation earlier next week. I'm hoping that is just a cyst but who knows with how my luck has been!

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I'm sorry you are having such a hard time. You give those animals in your care such a lovely life. I hope things improve for you soon.
 
Aw poor Paddington, I hope it’s not Lymphoma 🤞he is such a lovely boy, I remember seeing h8m on the RSPCA website of praying he would find a really lovely home and my prayers where answered ☺️
I’m so sorry you lost your friend, sending you hugs, you deserve some good news x
 
Thankyou all, luckily for them, they're all worth the stress 🤣
Sat syringe feeding Thistle at the moment and Misty comes bimbling over, ever hopeful there's going to be food on the way! Never mind all the hay and veg she's already got! 😅

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Eriathwen said:
Thankyou all, luckily for them, they're all worth the stress 🤣
Sat syringe feeding Thistle at the moment and Misty comes bimbling over, ever hopeful there's going to be food on the way! Never mind all the hay and veg she's already got! 😅

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Such a beautiful piggy! Sorry to hear you got bad news. You've had quite the string of troubling events it sounds. Certainly more than your fair share. I hope some respite is on its way. Hugs
 
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Such a beautiful piggy! Sorry to hear you got bad news. You've had quite the string of troubling events it sounds. Certainly more than your fair share. I hope some respite is on its way. Hugs
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Thanks! In a way, it's my own fault for only taking in rescues and adopting ones with special needs (and having 22 of them 🤦‍♀️) it kind of puts them at higher risk of issues, but it would still be nice to catch a break for a while 😅 I think I've been at my vets at least once a week on average for the last couple of years now! Honestly I don't know what I'd do without them, they've been amazing and kept me sane 🤣
 
Eriathwen said:
Thanks! In a way, it's my own fault for only taking in rescues and adopting ones with special needs (and having 22 of them 🤦‍♀️) it kind of puts them at higher risk of issues, but it would still be nice to catch a break for a while 😅 I think I've been at my vets at least once a week on average for the last couple of years now! Honestly I don't know what I'd do without them, they've been amazing and kept me sane 🤣
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22! Wow! You are a good person for taking in piggies with special needs and elderly piggies. Bless you. That is wonderful. Thank you for what you do.
 
Aw thankyou both, that's very kind of you to say. I'm just glad I can give them somewhere safe after all some of them have been through, it's the least they deserve.

It's so rewarding watching them come out of their shells, Gus is absolutely fascinated with Oliver and Olly seems to really like him as well, they're always gently talking and interacting through the bars, never any rumbling or squaring up, Gus even watches over Oliver when he sleeps. I genuinely believe they would love for me to merge their herds but I'm not sure I have the guts to try, just in case. But its very cute to see, it must have been quite an adjustment for Gus going from 0 friends to a whole room full 😅

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I cant remember if I said, but the boys have graduated from toys to beds! I was concerned they were going to keep falling out of it but I should have had more faith in them!
Well, kind of. Theyre not using it as a bed anyway..apparently it makes a great springboard 🤦‍♀️ I never manage to catch it on video though! Hopefully one day lol

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Theyre absolute little bless them 🤣 they're due a nail trim but I'm dreading it, my vet has said can't I bring him something easy like nail trims so..he may regret that! Hopefully I will be able to manage myself though but we will see.

So..ive kept this a little quiet because it won't be going ahead until April as they're possibly pregnant. But I will be adopting a lovely little blind girl and her sister. They have said she isnt a lethal, so hopefully she won't have to deal with the issues the boys have. But the person I got the boys from said they weren't lethals either so I guess we will see!
I'm hoping by then Thistles issues will be under control, but life has already got a little easier, Mum tested positive for covid 2 weeks ago so I was rushing around looking after her as well, but she's now out of isolation and fine, and by some miracle I am still testing negative.

Here are the little girls, I absolutely adore white pigs, I miss Ivory very much and have always felt robbed that she passed away unexpectedly so young because of her issues. So when I saw them needing a home experienced with blindness I just couldn't walk away.

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Aw, well done you for taking them on and looking after Mum too
Hope they aren’t preggers, I think you might have a lethal girl there?
Can you tell me if she was lethal, would her babies be lethal too?
As @alpacasqueak I love white piggies too
 
She does look it, doesn't she? But apparently she has some lilac on her so she could just be a non lethal with tiny eyes like Paddington. She has good teeth from what they say, but I've not seen her in person yet to say either way.
I've no idea if her babies would be lethal if she was, I imagine it would depend who the dad was, these guys have come from somewhere that was inbreeding terribly, there's several black males who are also blind.
 
Bless them. Such a bad start to their lives. But you will soon rectify that with your TLC. Hope they are not pregnant 🤞. Glad your mum is ok.
 
Aw it sounds like she isn’t then if she has lilac hairs too. That’s good new then for her and any possible babies. What a shame all these poor inbred piggies with disabilities 😞 good on you for giving her a home x
 
Yeah I'm crossing everything theyre not pregnant, from what I understand the seeing girl has already had a litter, they're only 4-6 months old themselves poor little babies.
It also means they can come live with us sooner than April if theyre not.

I bit the bullet today, did Silvers tooth and trimmed their nails, it only took 15 minutes which has to be some sort of record! 😅
Silver always feels the need to test his new tooth out when it's been trimmed. Chewing on my hand is one of his favourite things lol

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I think Paddington has been talking to Pumpkin.. walked in, thought he was dead 🤦‍♀️ usually with his blindness he is very alert to sounds, and always reacts to me coming in the door. But apparently I've been getting too complacent for his liking 🤣
And I dunno why my vet keeps calling him fat, he's in perfect shape. Round is a shape.. 😅

Daisy wanted to come out for a cuddle too, bless her. She sat and washed my arm for a while and watched the others go about the business, she's been rather tired today but she's still carrying along nicely. (Ignore the critical care smear on the collar, id just put Thistle back and she loves to clean her face on me before she goes back! 🙄)

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