meet Nutmeg
she came into the rescue with her two sisters. She was the most confident apparently we’re going to see how they do side by side and then see if we can bond them next weekend
Ooh yes, she’ll have to send in her stripey nose club application! Eddie has come back to all his usual enthusiasm which is lovelyNutmeg is beautiful! She looks a lot like my Mabel. Looking at her pic she would make a lovely new member of the stripey nose club
I think Eddie is a lucky boy x
You’re right, they are very young. I was going to leave them a few days to let Nutmeg settle in and let Ed get over his initial excitement, but I do have the option to bond them sooner if they need it. Not sure of Nutmeg’s exact age, the rescue just said about four months. She is only small and her poops are tiny!Hello Nutneg! Welcome to your new home!
With such young piggies I wouldn't wait too long before bonding. I'm sure everything will go smoothly - well rumbly.
Ah how lovelyOoh yes, she’ll have to send in her stripey nose club application! Eddie has come back to all his usual enthusiasm which is lovely
You’re right, they are very young. I was going to leave them a few days to let Nutmeg settle in and let Ed get over his initial excitement, but I do have the option to bond them sooner if they need it. Not sure of Nutmeg’s exact age, the rescue just said about four months. She is only small and her poops are tiny!
She’s had a few pellets this morning and then disappeared into the hay bag. Ed abandoned his breakfast as soon as she appeared to go back to bar biting
How lovely. I hope little Nutmeg will help heal your heart, too
The little lady is here
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I have mixed feelings with it being so soon after Tofu, but Ed spooked me when he lost weight the first couple of days. He’s very happily munching hay through the bars next to her now
PS: Is she going to be Nutty ot Meggie?
a fitting successor to Tofu indeed (plus she loves coriander, which he’d greatly approve of) of course now Ed is back to biting the bars and rumbling non-stop! Can’t blame him, she’s a sweetheart
Apart from LordE going overboard in the heavy metal department and losing his brain in the bonding process (brace yourself, that part is never pretty but survivable for a piggy Lady), I would expect them to become a proper love match. The signs are all there.Thank you @Merab and @Wiebke - you’ve both made me feel a lot better about missing Tofu while enjoying getting to know Nutmeg
Probably Meggie - we’ve been affectionately calling her Lady Meg as she seems quite calm and dignified so far
Lord Ed & Lady Meg, if all goes well with bonding. OH said we’d be calling her Nuts if she turns out to be a character though
I just caught a sweet interaction between them. Edamame paused his incessant bar biting to jump on the carrot cottage roof. Nutmeg decided she wanted to go say hello, bit the bars herself until he jumped down and came over
Sweet little sniffs through the bars, then she popcorned back into a hay pile
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I like nuttyOh, hello! Somebody has woken up!
Nutmeg will never replace Tofu; she is going to take you and Eddie on her own, very different adventure into unknown territory. The good thing about love is that it is not limited but that it multiplies. And that the number of places in your heart that a bond can tie into is endless, too. None will every take anything away from the other - and the same goes for Eddie.
See your life as a river - Tofu and Nutmeg will share different sections and different shores but you will always carry Tofu and all the other loves of your life with you in current - you still carry the water you have shared with Tofu with you.
PS: Is she going to be Nutty ot Meggie?
Apart from LordE going overboard in the heavy metal department and losing his brain in the bonding process (brace yourself, that part is never pretty but survivable for a piggy Lady), I would expect them to become a proper love match. The signs are all there.
preparing myself for the antics. Ed has been doing some very impressive rumbles through the bars. I'm glad it sounds positive so far. She has been going out of her way to interact with him, which is niceI like nutty
we’ll have to see if she lives up to it. She just did a proper wheek at veggie time!
You go girl. Keep that boar i. his place.I am a bit nervous about the bonding, as I’ve only had well-matched boar pairs so far
Me too
can’t believe how big he looks next to her, he was always so small next to Tofu)
I hope so! He’s calmer today than he was yesterdayLooking positive. Hopefully he’s a gentleman when they meet
I hope so! He’s calmer today than he was yesterday
She keeps waiting for him to leave the bars before going over to nibble them and get him to come back over
Got some better photos of her at evening hay time (and Ed being his usual charming handsome self
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and Ed is certainly not depressed anymore! He’s calmer again today, only one small episode of bar biting. Otherwise they’ll happily sit eating hay in tandem. Meg has actually been at the bars more than Ed so far today 
