Furbabies' Adventures

Hi, I'm Odi. I'm 3 years old and live in my forever home since last September.
I don't really like to remember the first months of my life, but one day I came to a lovely lady, who took good care of me, made sure that all my wounds could heal and she also took me to the vet. There something happened to me (also a subject, I don't want to talk about - it's pretty embarrassing) but a few weeks later I was placed into a large group of girls. Oh boy! I was one happy piggy! :D:luv:
Still ... it was not my foreever home yet.

Last September I met my new slave. And I now live with 4 "ladies". My slave and I like to call them girls, but they can be little snobs. When I first met them, I had to really work hard to show them, how big and important I am. They were not really impressed at the beginning.
But since then the situation has really improved. ;) Also I'm more relaxed now because I know for sure, there are no other boars around. Wouldn't want to loose one of the girls to a rival boar.

My slave is okay, too. She could be faster when serving meals and cleaning, but the food is excellent (I must confess, I've gained a little bit of weight) and she is plaing fun games with us from time to time. I always show her where to improve, because I'm really good at thinking out of the box - and using toys not the way they are suppose to be played with. That's my other super piggy power - apart from being greatest boar ever. :inn:

Got to go now! Have to tell the slave to get a move on with the next feeding.
 
As you can see, Billie is a Teddy, a 'golden girl' with just a touch of white and 3.5 years old. She ist a really sweetie. :D
I don't have a favourite in my group, because every piggy is just perfect and special, but Billie ist 'especially special' in more than one way. ;)

First of all she is a really big girl. I think that she is among the biggest guinea pigs, I ever had. She is definitely the heaviest piggy, I ever had. :whistle: But she really loves to eat and she is also a very lazy piggy. So it is hard to get her to exercise, if there is no food involved. She comes out of the cage for floor time like the rest of them, but she enjoys a good nap during floor time, either sleeping under my sofa or having returned to the cage for some peace and quiet, while the others are outside of the cage.

Billie is also my first real cuddly pig in a very long time. She really enjoys to take a nap during cuddle time. :luv: My piggies all have to tolerate being held, but they are never forced to stay longer than they want to (except for medical reasons). So it is great to have a piggy, who really likes to cuddle.
Sometimes - when life in the group is a little rough - I even have the feeling, that Billie needs a little bit of "mama time" with me on her own. She is definitely what we call a 'Sensibelchen' in German.

Another special thing about Billie is the fact that she is a chirping piggy. To my knowledge it's not clear, what the chirping means, but a possible explantion has to do with stress. And I think that's true in Billie's case. She usally chirps, when something is not quite right in the group. Billie had a very special bond with our old boar Muffin, who sadly crossed the bridge last September (aged about 7,5 years). And she did a lot of chirping during Muffin's last weeks and also during the first rough weeks with Odi. The last time I heard her chirp was soon after Vicky came to live with us. (Billie wasn't really pleased.)
So I'm always a little bit uneasy when I hear her chirping.

Her relationship with Muffin was also really special. I've had a few lovers' couples in my groups before, but all of them (Snoopy & Daisy, Scotty & Georgina, Benji & Freja) were approximately the same age. Muffin was already 3.5 to 4 years old, when Billie came to live with us. She was approx. 6 weeks old at the time. Muffin was a really lady's boar and very charismatic. Every sow fell for him immediately, but Billie was his very special love. So I was really nervous, how Billie would cope with loosing of Muffin. Fortunately, it wasn't as bad as I had feared. But the bonding with our new boar was really hard. But that's another story...

Billie's fur doesn't really make it easy to take pictures of her, but apart from that she is a patient model. :D
Here you see one of my favourite pictures of Billie - out of my guinea@gurumi-series.
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This is such a lovely thread.
I am loving hearing all about your piggies, and it sounds like they have the perfect life with you.
 
Yesterday was a warm, sunny day in Vienna. Since I had the day off, the piggies and I spent a few hours in the garden. They hated the car drive there and back home (especially Odi), but they loved sitting on the gras.
So we ate a lot (the piggies, not me), we spent some lazy time in the sun (me, not the piggies), looked sweet and adorable (the piggies, not me) and took a lot of pictures (me, not the piggies).
It was a great day and in the evening all were tired and hungry. ;)
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Today I would like to introduce Tess. We always call her Tessy. The name Tess seemed to 'big' somehow when she was a little piglet - and the name Tessy stuck.
(My little girl is named after a character in an Australian series - can you guess which one? ;))

Tessy is second in command in my sows' hierarchy. She is 6 months younger than Billie and it took her quite a while after Billie became top sow to accept her position. Apart from that she is a friendly girl (most of the times), pretty sporty, frequently stands on her hind legs to beg for food and loves a good nap during free roaming time. On the down side she is absolutely not a piggy that enjoys cuddles.
The camera loves Tessy, but Tessy doesn't like cameras at all. She starts to wander off during group pictures or trys to eat the decoration or the camera or ...
That's a shame because Tessy is a real cutie.
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She has a very 'special' relationship with Odi. They are about the same age, but like Billie Tessy was used to gentlepig Muffin. When Odi came to live with us, the start was pretty rough and Tessy has a conflicting opinion of Odi. Sometimes she really likes him, sometimes the two of them fight in a way, I haven't witnessed in a sow and a boar. Fortunately, they are equally good at reconciling again. So it's just a pretty stormy relationship from time to time.
 
It is really hot in Vienna at the moment (36°C max today). When cleaning the cage yesterday, I decided to remove the fleece tunnels because I don't trust the piggies not to stay inside one, when it's too warm.
I put a fleece bed inside instead, combined with a hidey (left in the picture). And now this fleece bed is the new favourite place to sleep. 🙈neue_einrichtung_P1140210.webp
 
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