Lorcan
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I've put off doing this for what...six months now? I didn't really want to do it for a while, because I didn't lose the boys because they died. I lost them because life circumstances were the biggest load of crap I'd had to deal with for quite some time and for my own sanity, I had to move somewhere where they wouldn't allow me to bring them with me.
I yelled the place down at the time. I've always been told I speak too quietly (I lack an "outdoor" voice) but you could hear me that day. I had to call Sue at Cavy Corner and apologise because I couldn't take them back, and it nearly broke me. It was the second time I'd lost piggies in similar circumstances, and you always think you're going to be able to give them the best lives they could have, right up until it ends, and it's a damn privilege to be able to do it.
I wasn't meant to have piggies in the first place, lol. I walked into Pets at Home and walked out with the pair of them, complete with a basic Ferplast because it would do until their permanent cage would arrive. They got what they needed....and I didn't realise then I'd got exactly what I needed too. I live alone, and at the time I had no family and no close friends nearby. I was very much on my own around a bunch of people who still had issues understanding what I said on a regular basis. Comet and Blitzen didn't give a fig about that. They were two very different piggies from the out. When they were being sexed in Pets at Home, Comet was fine...Blitzen tried to pick a fight with the guy. Start young, guys. First time they had floor time, Blitzen preferred to hide in a corner. Comet preferred to get his nose into everything...and to try and eat the towels and the letterbox. The entire time I had him, he always tried to eat the letterbox. He was not the brains of the outfit - Blitzen stole his dinner on a regular basis and Comet always complained when he did it...but he did the same thing every mealtime, and Blitzen knew he was on to a good thing.
Comet was a very gentle pig. He would always let me hand feed him, but if he thought he'd bitten me even by accident, he'd stop, and then try again to get the food, not the fingers. He used to love sofa time, til it had to be stopped because he kept making kamikaze leaps off the edge. When my parents were over, my dad was sitting on one half of the sofa and I had Comet on the other half...and had to pick him up within 30 seconds because he kept trying to get at the blueberry punnet on the sofa arm. He caused an incident at the vet where it took 3 of us to calm him down and he screamed the entire time. I got some funny looks going back into the waiting room, you'd've thought we were torturing him. He never did like the vet after that. When I was in hospital and unable to leave for long periods of time, he ended up needing tooth spurs filed and through the help of this forum I managed to get it sorted - I could drop him off for the surgery, and someone else could keep him overnight to make sure he was okay, and he was. Anyone who met him said he was a lovely chap who could wheek for Ireland (I know, I'm in England, but home team represent!) and you definitely didn't dare rustle a plastic bag within 5 miles of him because he just knew.
Blitzen took much longer to come round. He was a big pig but he felt like he weighed as much of a feather, I figured it was due to the fact he was built like a slinky. As someone put it once, he actually looked like he had a waistline. He hated being groomed unless he was sitting in one particular position, he repeatedly bit anyone clipping his nails, and as previously mentioned he wouldn't come to me for food, preferring to nick it off Comet instead. But he started to mellow - I can't explain how excited I was when he finally took some food from my hand. HE ACTUALLY DID IT. It was the best feeling ever.
I will never understand how they got on, they were like chalk and cheese. Blitzen would be trying to sleep in the same hidey Comet was trying to move to create his zoomies circuits. Comet would forever be coming back for his dinner within 2 minutes with this look on his face like "it happened...again" - yessir, it did. Comet liked his zoomies, Blitzen preferred to popcorn - full body in the air, with his fur flying around like he was headbanging. They'd tipped water over each other, headbutted each other, argued with each other, refused to share food with each other, and at the end of the day shared a hidey to fall asleep in. They slept next to each other often, would frequently look for each other if they were too far apart, groomed each other.
I miss them, far more than I can ever explain. Knowing they've gone to a good home helps, but it still doesn't hurt any less 6 months later. I'm sorry that in the last few months I couldn't give them 100%, but that didn't stop me from spending £140 a week when I was in hospital going back and forth to give them as close to 100% as I could. They were my saving grace, just being able to watch these two adorable boys going about their daily business, giving me something else to focus on when I needed it most. I couldn't give them 100%...but they gave me 200% easily.
Wherever you are now, you beautiful pair of eejits, I hope you're still raising hell. And thank you, for giving me a way forward too.
I yelled the place down at the time. I've always been told I speak too quietly (I lack an "outdoor" voice) but you could hear me that day. I had to call Sue at Cavy Corner and apologise because I couldn't take them back, and it nearly broke me. It was the second time I'd lost piggies in similar circumstances, and you always think you're going to be able to give them the best lives they could have, right up until it ends, and it's a damn privilege to be able to do it.
I wasn't meant to have piggies in the first place, lol. I walked into Pets at Home and walked out with the pair of them, complete with a basic Ferplast because it would do until their permanent cage would arrive. They got what they needed....and I didn't realise then I'd got exactly what I needed too. I live alone, and at the time I had no family and no close friends nearby. I was very much on my own around a bunch of people who still had issues understanding what I said on a regular basis. Comet and Blitzen didn't give a fig about that. They were two very different piggies from the out. When they were being sexed in Pets at Home, Comet was fine...Blitzen tried to pick a fight with the guy. Start young, guys. First time they had floor time, Blitzen preferred to hide in a corner. Comet preferred to get his nose into everything...and to try and eat the towels and the letterbox. The entire time I had him, he always tried to eat the letterbox. He was not the brains of the outfit - Blitzen stole his dinner on a regular basis and Comet always complained when he did it...but he did the same thing every mealtime, and Blitzen knew he was on to a good thing.
Comet was a very gentle pig. He would always let me hand feed him, but if he thought he'd bitten me even by accident, he'd stop, and then try again to get the food, not the fingers. He used to love sofa time, til it had to be stopped because he kept making kamikaze leaps off the edge. When my parents were over, my dad was sitting on one half of the sofa and I had Comet on the other half...and had to pick him up within 30 seconds because he kept trying to get at the blueberry punnet on the sofa arm. He caused an incident at the vet where it took 3 of us to calm him down and he screamed the entire time. I got some funny looks going back into the waiting room, you'd've thought we were torturing him. He never did like the vet after that. When I was in hospital and unable to leave for long periods of time, he ended up needing tooth spurs filed and through the help of this forum I managed to get it sorted - I could drop him off for the surgery, and someone else could keep him overnight to make sure he was okay, and he was. Anyone who met him said he was a lovely chap who could wheek for Ireland (I know, I'm in England, but home team represent!) and you definitely didn't dare rustle a plastic bag within 5 miles of him because he just knew.
Blitzen took much longer to come round. He was a big pig but he felt like he weighed as much of a feather, I figured it was due to the fact he was built like a slinky. As someone put it once, he actually looked like he had a waistline. He hated being groomed unless he was sitting in one particular position, he repeatedly bit anyone clipping his nails, and as previously mentioned he wouldn't come to me for food, preferring to nick it off Comet instead. But he started to mellow - I can't explain how excited I was when he finally took some food from my hand. HE ACTUALLY DID IT. It was the best feeling ever.
I will never understand how they got on, they were like chalk and cheese. Blitzen would be trying to sleep in the same hidey Comet was trying to move to create his zoomies circuits. Comet would forever be coming back for his dinner within 2 minutes with this look on his face like "it happened...again" - yessir, it did. Comet liked his zoomies, Blitzen preferred to popcorn - full body in the air, with his fur flying around like he was headbanging. They'd tipped water over each other, headbutted each other, argued with each other, refused to share food with each other, and at the end of the day shared a hidey to fall asleep in. They slept next to each other often, would frequently look for each other if they were too far apart, groomed each other.
I miss them, far more than I can ever explain. Knowing they've gone to a good home helps, but it still doesn't hurt any less 6 months later. I'm sorry that in the last few months I couldn't give them 100%, but that didn't stop me from spending £140 a week when I was in hospital going back and forth to give them as close to 100% as I could. They were my saving grace, just being able to watch these two adorable boys going about their daily business, giving me something else to focus on when I needed it most. I couldn't give them 100%...but they gave me 200% easily.
Wherever you are now, you beautiful pair of eejits, I hope you're still raising hell. And thank you, for giving me a way forward too.
Just make sure you stick around here!
