Minnou’s piggies

Minnou said:
Just accidentally french-kissed Minerva when I gave her a few little pecks on the nose and at the same time, she decided it was licking time and licked my top lip and at least some of her tongue was inside my mouth. 😂
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This makes me laugh every time
 
*Picks up Minerva for a cuddle*

*Gaia saunters over, glares at me and begins to teeth chatter*

Gaia: 'I'm not especially attached to the brown squishy thing (more food for me if she's not around) but... she's mine. So put her back.'

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*Picks up Gaia for a cuddle*

Gaia: 'AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGH!' *much complaining*

*Minerva rushes to the side of cage, worried*

*I return Gaia*

Minerva: 'Are you OK?'

Gaia: '.... It kissed me....'

Minerva: 😱

Gaia: 🤮
 
Shared some of the spoils of war with the girls today (I went blackberry picking).

Minerva sniffed at the blackberry, unsure of it, until Gaia barged in, sniffed it once then took a bite. Then they were both on that poor berry like a pair of wolverines.
 
Gaia: *screaming the house down for snacks*

Gaia: '$%@! SLAVE! FOOD! NOW!'

Me: 'You've had enough, Gaia'

Minerva: *quietly, gently pressing the side of the cage with her nose a couple of times then looking at me*

Me: 'Awwww! Min-Min, are you starving? You can both have snacks'

Gaia: *dumbfounded* 'But I was being so utterly charming when I made my demands....'
 
Ongoing work in the back room has seen the girls evicted from it. Usually they bed in there and have floor time in there but they're free to roam into other rooms if they choose to, which Minerva does all the time but Gaia almost never leaves the back room unless someone is in the kitchen and she hears the fridge door open.

It has been a shock to Gaia's system to have the floor time arena shifted to the hallway and kitchen. It means she is forced to see/hear more of me and she doesn't like it. She makes that little 'what was that?/I am surprised!' purring/rumbling vocalization at every noise and usually stands in the middle of the hall, staring into my soul whilst looking bewildered and angry. Minerva just does zoomies all over the place. I think she's extra happy because Gaia is finally hanging out with her in the hall.

Gaia: 'Oh no no no no no no no no.....' :help:

Minerva: *whilst racing around* 'YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!' :yahoo::bronco:
 
Had to give Gaia another fur cut as it was getting to the stage where her bum felt damp. Her fur length always reaches this critical limit where you can guarantee she'll get pee all over herself every day so the second she has one wet bum day, I take it all off her back end and trim her sides so she's not tripping over herself.

She doesn't like having it done but she's always happy after it is done. She fights during the cutting so she often ends up with a dodgy looking fur cut.

Anyway, I wanted her to give me a twirl and waddle around to see how she looked before deciding if I'd need to take anymore off her and I wanted to put her somewhere where she wouldn't be able to hide, so, since they haven't learned stairs yet, and she's generally cautious and lazy as sin, I decided to put her on the bottom landing and watch her.

She immediately and deftly hopped down the two steps then ran away. 🙄
 
*empties bin*

Gaia: *intense wheeking* 'SNACKS!' 📢

Minerva: *appears* 'Snacks!?' *copies Gaia's intense wheeking*

Me: 'No! No snacks, Min-Min. Gaia's lying to you, ignore her'

Gaia: 'SNACKS!' 📢

Minerva: *appearing at my foot and staring up at me* 'Gaia says there are snacks?'

Gaia: 'SNACKS!' 📢

Me: 'I was emptying the bin, there are no snacks. Gaia is simply manifesting'

Minerva: 'Oh.... OK..... But there are snacks....right?' 🥺

Me: *sighs and gives them both snacks*

Gaia: 'I KNEW THERE WERE SNACKS!' *gobbles* 📢

Me: 'Why are you always shouting and hungry!?'
 
Minnou said:
*empties bin*

Gaia: *intense wheeking* 'SNACKS!' 📢

Minerva: *appears* 'Snacks!?' *copies Gaia's intense wheeking*

Me: 'No! No snacks, Min-Min. Gaia's lying to you, ignore her'

Gaia: 'SNACKS!' 📢

Minerva: *appearing at my foot and staring up at me* 'Gaia says there are snacks?'

Gaia: 'SNACKS!' 📢

Me: 'I was emptying the bin, there are no snacks. Gaia is simply manifesting'

Minerva: 'Oh.... OK..... But there are snacks....right?' 🥺

Me: *sighs and gives them both snacks*

Gaia: 'I KNEW THERE WERE SNACKS!' *gobbles* 📢

Me: 'Why are you always shouting and hungry!?'
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This happens so often XD
 
Betsy said:
Dear Gaia and Minerva

Well done in keeping on at your Slave for snacks. May I use your example for future Slave training?

Your friend in a crisis

Miss Bramble
Shop Steward
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Dear Miss Bramble,

Of course you may! I find the combination of my persistent yelling, and Minerva's use of emotional blackmail, to be quite effective 99.9% of the time. Minerva also convinced the slave to lay the bin down on the floor on its side so we could climb in it. I can report that it wasn't as exciting as we thought it might be.

Your models of exemplary pigginess,

Gaia and Minerva
 
For whatever reason, Minerva enjoys bumbling around the living room but Gaia is scared of it.

Gaia was feeling very brave today and came in and had a look at the TV unit then she panicked, fled and ran face first into a shoe in the hall. Angrily headbutted the shoe aside then hid under the cupboard for 10 seconds, came back out and glared at me.

I hadn't done anything. 😭
 
Minnou said:
For whatever reason, Minerva enjoys bumbling around the living room but Gaia is scared of it.

Gaia was feeling very brave today and came in and had a look at the TV unit then she panicked, fled and ran face first into a shoe in the hall. Angrily headbutted the shoe aside then hid under the cupboard for 10 seconds, came back out and glared at me.

I hadn't done anything. 😭
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Of course you had! You had the audacity to leave the shoe in her way!
 
Anyone else's guinea pig just look at you then start swaggering around, rumbling?

I swear whenever Gaia isn't eating or sleeping, she's busy trying to dominate me.

Gaia: *coughs* 'Continuing to dominate you, not trying to'
 
The girls still despise bell peppers. Won't touch them. Doesn't matter what colour they are, how small I cut them up or if I gobble them up in front of them to show them that a) they're safe and b) I'm eating them so they should just want them the same way they want everything I'm eating.

But nope!

However, if my fingers smell like bell peppers....

Gaia and Minerva: *w* *w*
 
Decided to give the girls a treat (carrot) just as they were tucking into a fresh pile of hay.

Gaia reached up and snatched her piece from my hand, which was about 4ft above her head, I swear! But I was waving Minerva's piece in front of her face for ages and she made no attempt to grab it, didn't even seem to notice it. So I plonked it on her head. And she was wearing that carrot hat for quite a while. The hay must've been very good!
 
Gaia was lounging with her feet out and her back turned to me and of course I had to take advantage and leaned over and gave her a kiss on the head. And her back. And lifted a little paw and gave that a little peck too.

She was rumbling away throughout and I'll assume she was annoyed with me but she's also too lazy to move so she'll just have to put up with all the terrible affection from her terrible slave, I guess. 😚
 
They've turned the hallway into an anti social behaviour dispersal zone.

I hear them getting into mischief, enter the hallway and find Gaia eating the door and Minerva chewing on the cabinet. Gaia backs off a bit and glares at me. I ask what she's doing. She tells me 'nothing' and then scuttles off into the kitchen. Minerva just sits and looks at me so I pick her up and put her back with the other yob. Then they confidently march back into the hallway and start being naughty again. 🙄
 
Usually the girls agree with each other about everything, especially food; if one says the food is yuck, then the other also thinks the food is yuck.

Gaia decided that the orange segment I gave her was yuck and wouldn't eat it.

Minerva committed high treason and decided the orange was nice. She ate her own and Gaia's.
 
Betsy said:
That's piggies for you!
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They could be less piggy!

The other day, 'hard as nails' Gaia ran into the wall of the cage and then sat trembling.... because I closed the cutlery draw.

Petting her and talking to her in a soothing manner had no effect so I had to tickle her bum until she got so annoyed with me she forgot she was scared of something.
 
Minerva has gotten into the habit of sitting at my feet and looking up at me when she wants lifting back into bed.

I rest my hand on the floor next to her, palm facing up, and she steps onto my hand and begins to crawl up my arm. But when I go to hold her securely with both hands, that's when she decides she's going to leap up to my chest, overshoots, and almost knocks all my teeth out. 😣
 
There she stood, a solitary piggy, at the final hurdle. The Great Outdoors beckoning. Curious and brave, she stared into the darkness and breathed in the scent of freedom, listened to it whispering her name.

Minerva: 'I could be wild....' She said, with quiet excitement.

Then, a sudden wind raged by and the heavens opened.

Minerva: '......Or I could go back to the living room and try to get inside that box of Raffaello choccies again!'

And so she did.
 
Minerva creates her own fun.... or misery.

She was hopping around inside, and headbanging, the carrot cottage so it looked like the cottage was just bouncing around on its own, travelling back and forth. But she was crying the entire time so I can't tell if she was happy or very upset. 🤔

And then Gaia didn't look very happy with the carrot cottage being used to thump her out the way.
 
The grass was quite frozen today but I tried my best to meet the girl's expectations and brought a pile of it in, only for it to thaw rapidly and collapse into a sad, inedible mess.

Gaia going all Gordon Ramsay: "You call this f*?!#~@! grass?! It looks like a pile of seaweed having a midlife crisis has just thrown itself under a bus!"
 
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