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Just how lucky I've been with my pair. Yes, they're a pair of idiots. I'm not ever going to deny that. Something about using each others backs as tables, kamikaze leaps off furniture to try and get at the hay bag, and at the minute Comet's staring at me intently for....something. I don't know what. Probably more hay.

I digress, anyway. They're a pair of idiots but so far they've been really, really good with each other. They both constantly rumble at each other and bicker and squabble all the time...but neither of them actually picks on the other. Hell they don't even have fallouts over food...they constantly just steal it from each others mouths. Neither of them will hog food, they manage to share really well, and every morning when I come into the room now they're snuggled up against each other. Or lying on top of each other. Pfft, squabbles. Who needs squabbles when you can have a free pillow?
 
Also just gave them some hay because Comet's dead eye stare was freaking me out a little. It was definitely more hay he wanted. However I also just found a feather right at the bottom of the hay bag. Gross.
 
It was a bag of the Burgess with dandelion and marigold. It's clearly gone through the hay drying process, just...ugh, if I hadn't caught it. I don't really want to think about it, it would not have been pretty.
 
Blitzen was fairly well behaved at the vets, and as for Comet...well he's also the one with kamikaze tendencies. I can't have everything!
 
Comet and Blitzen are such characters? Any idea who the boss pig is? I am thinking maybe Comet. And yuck on the rancid looking feather but at least the rest of the bird was not in there.
 
Squeakz said:
Comet and Blitzen are such characters? Any idea who the boss pig is? I am thinking maybe Comet. And yuck on the rancid looking feather but at least the rest of the bird was not in there.
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I'm pretty sure it's Comet because he's the only one I've ever seen humping, but tbh they're both fairly evenly matched. There's no real dominance dynamics there aside from the odd bit of chasing and of course, all the rumbling. But then they'll both rumble at each other at the same time.

And besides, it's Comet who gets separation anxiety, Blitzen really doesn't care lol.

As for the feather, I spoke to Burgess via Twitter. Mostly because I almost missed the feather and I get these things are unavoidable, but seriously that feather is not pleasant, and to only find it once the bag was nearly gone. Ick. They've registered the complaint though, so I can't ask for much else.
 
Eek! Once I found a big dried grasshopper in a bag of hay! It was not a happy day for me. I also once found a gigantic nail in a bag of wood shavings once. Not sure that that tree was used for before it was pet shavings, but it was something involving giant nails!
 
I found some twine like thing in a bag of hay before. Like maybe an actual plant root or something. It was probably fine but it felt really horrible? I don't know, I have a thing about texture and that thing just felt weird.

Still. I can't cope with crawly things...except spiders. Spiders are cool. I'd probably still have an issue with a dead spider in my hay bag...the boys have to eat that stuff!
 
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I found some twine like thing in a bag of hay before. Like maybe an actual plant root or something. It was probably fine but it felt really horrible? I don't know, I have a thing about texture and that thing just felt weird.

Still. I can't cope with crawly things...except spiders. Spiders are cool. I'd probably still have an issue with a dead spider in my hay bag...the boys have to eat that stuff!
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I actually don't mind grasshoppers or bugs, but finding this huge dried out one kind of grossed me out. It was significantly larger than any grasshopper we have here in Canada- longer than my finger and seriously half an inch thick! So glad I saw it and didn't just stick it in with the pigs!
 
Freela said:
I actually don't mind grasshoppers or bugs, but finding this huge dried out one kind of grossed me out. It was significantly larger than any grasshopper we have here in Canada- longer than my finger and seriously half an inch thick! So glad I saw it and didn't just stick it in with the pigs!
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Same. I saw that feather only because it ended up right at the top of a pile of hay I pulled out, I honestly wouldn't have seen it otherwise. You'd think it'd be hard to miss but nope, it still almost ended up in the cage.

I shudder. I know things are unavoidable but you'd think there would be some way of checking for larger foreign objects like that. Once you see them they're pretty hard to miss.
 
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