Introducing A New Friend For Kindle!

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After the tragic attempt with baby Nook (a VERY young pib I acquired this past April who died just 9 days after I got her), I thought perhaps Kindle might do just fine as an "only child" and decided to abandon the idea entirely. Just as well that I did, because this summer was rocky for me in terms of going through a really mentally and emotionally difficult few months. But as September began, I felt the cloud lifting. I have 11 months of sobriety under my belt now, my meds and my doctors are doing their jobs helping me manage my OCD and depression and ADD, and Kindle is doing her job helping me keep to my routines and maintain a positive attitude and she helps me sleep when I have REALLY bad insomnia and she sings to me every morning and she gives me all the cuddles I need.

So I decided it's time to try again to give her a friend to keep her happy when I can't be around, since she DOES still have to live in the attic, away from even the normal sounds and people-traffic of the main house, and I keep long hours downstairs.

So today was the day I went to pick her up. She has no name yet, but she is GORGEOUS:

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Car cuddles with a sleepy pib right after I picked her up... which I had to interrupt her naptime to do, I'm afraid. XD


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Pib in the "Chill Chest" -- a padded critter carrier set up to feel cozy and safe, full of treats and hay and placed in a nice dark spot where she can hang out and get used to her new surroundings for a few hours while I set up her new enclosure and just generally putter about quietly so she can get used to ME, too. :)
 
she's cute! what about as Amazon make kindle calling her Amazon or Maizie?
Hope your doing ok and that they both get on :)
 
What a stunner! Hope ti goes well, please keep us updated on your gorgeous piggies :love:
 
Sssssoooooo I got the big cage all cleaned and de-scented and moved to its new, more visible spot in the attic, and at that point I decided to take Kindle out and have a break. So I took her to the bed and just... casually let her notice Sonnet in her carrier sitting on the spare bed next to mine. Just to see what she'd do.

Her reaction was to immediately leap over onto the spare bed and start circling the carrier and sniffing Sonnet through the mesh and tugging at the mesh and the zippers to try to get in. I watched her do that for about 5 minutes and decided there was no clear sign of aggression there, she just seemed REALLY curious to get better acquainted.

So... I stuck the two of them in the clean but otherwise empty cage.

The result was a flurry of wheeking and purring as the two of them apparently decided to become BFFs IMMEDIATELY. Kindle introduced herself with a little bit of fairly gentle alpha-pib behavior (I thought the mounting was hilarious-- I didn't know females did that XD) then the two of them spent the next hour or so just chasing each other around the empty cage while I watched them and made sure it didn't devolve into anything unpleasant.

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They're so close in size, it's hard to believe Kindle is (supposedly) 7 or 8 months older than Sonnet. I've suspected for some time that Kin was on the shrimpy side of the size chart, though, and Sonnet does seem to have a little bit of chub on her. Also, omg look at her amazing huge Dumbo ears. They're so silly. I love them.


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Shnoogles


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Sonnet looks like she's about to charge here. I love her eyebrow-horns. They really are some EPIC eyebrows. She has some tufting on her head/face and then just one single mohawk tuft between her shoulderblades. She's such a cool-looking critter.


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This is what the cage looks like right now. (C&C, by the way! I built it out of Elfa shelving pieces.) That cat-tower hut thing on the right is what Kindle has been living in for the past couple of months. From the day I got it for her, she started spending nearly all her time in it and even drags her food into it.

The wicker cocoon on the left contains the little pib bed that I'd had in Sonnet's Chill Chest before I installed them into the cage. It also contains a very sleepy Sonnet.

There is an ongoing argument going on between the two pibs over which structure they want to sleep in. Kindle wants the hut, Sonnet wants the wicker cocoon. Kindle keeps crawling in and waking her up and chasing her out then herding her into the hut, only to have her almost immediately leave and go back to the cocoon. A little while ago, she gave up and curled up in the cocoon with Sonnet and I think she dozed off for a bit in there, but she's up again and back to trying to move into the hut.

I'm going to leave both structures in there until they make up their minds, but I am ultimately going to want to take one of them out and replace it with something else. I don't know what, exactly, but something. XD
 
They are 2 beautifuls piggies you have there! And I like their beds! Wishing you all the best with their bonding!
 
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