Piggy-related Separation Anxiety

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The herd are being (very well!) looked after by my lovely mum while I'm away this week, but I had a very peculiar piggy dream last night that I can only put down to not having them around!

I had obviously taken leave of my senses and forgotten to take them to a proper boarding place in my dream, as when I went to the pet shop to pick them up (?!) my beautiful Thor had a ripped ear and half his hair was missing where he'd been put in with three fighting boys in a tiny cage, and I couldn't find my girlies anywhere because the guy who owned it was a total jack**s and put them out in the massive garden with hundreds of others to fend for themselves! I woke myself up mid-rant and am just awaiting the men in white coats :)):mal:

Anyone else have weird piggy dreams?
 
Oh no!
That's a horrible dream. I've had some weird piggy related dreams as well. My girls were put in with some boy piggies, and I was so upset as I found out they were pregnant. Luckily I woke up after that in shock!
 
Poor you, what a horrible dream.

I've not had anything pig related in a while....

I did have one a long time ago when I was trying to find the large constrictor snake that was slithering around upstairs before it got to the pig pen in the spare room. I was sleepwalking as well, but apparently answered my OH quite lucidly when he asked me why I was crawling around hunting for things under the bed as some un-earthly time in the morning. This was when I had the only pair of pigs my hubby wasn’t severely allergic to and they could live indoors.

My OH is also affected by pig dreams. He said he’d had one on Monday night where he’d gone to get the boys in from the run to put them in their hutch because it had started to rain. He was moving water bottles when he discovered that the pig hutch was full of small albino hedgehogs…… he was then trying to work out what he was going to do with ours boys who were beginning to object to getting rained on. Most odd. ;)
 
I once had a dream that I woke up, went to the pigs and there were babies! (Keep in mind my pigs are both boys!) and I mean about 30 babies.

So I was taking these babies, about two at a time downstairs and showing my mum. After taking the last couple of pigs down, my mamas friend walked into the room and told me all the baby pigs were knitted.. Yep, knitted piggies. At that point all of the babies I brought down turned into brightly coloured knitted pigs! Like pinks and greens ect!

I then woke up and had too go and check the pigs....
 
Aw nooo that must have been a scary dream katanamoon!

I've had a couple of dreams where one of my boys turns out to be a girl and we end up overrun with babies! Common theme here!
 
My dreams always feature guinea pigs running loose with me chasing round looking for boxes or anything I can put them in to. A recurring dream is that I come across a load of large cages full of guinea pigs outside and there are loads running loose and I am catching them and stuffing them into the cages but then I see there is a hole in the cage and they are getting back out again.

When I kept gerbils I had a very disturbing dream where I went in the cupboard to get their pet carrier out and there was a cartoon style skeleton gerbil in the carrier and it said " I waited and waited for you to come and feed me but you never came". I shot up wide awake, burst into tears and went straight downstairs and fed all the gerbils. Must have been a bad cheese night!
 
I used to have a horrible recurring dream about my childhood piggies long after they had passed away and i had left home. In my dream i would return to my childhood home and suddenly realise I hadn't fed them for years and would be filled with guilt knowing they would have starved to death. At this point I would always wake up. These dreams only stopped when I started keeping piggies again!
 
I've had a piggy related dream where one of my piggies who had died a couple of months previously suddenly turned up in his cage again, perfectly healthy! We were confused but seemed to accept it? Haha. I must still have been missing him at that point.

Also had a dream where I absent mindedly put one of the girl piggies in the boys cage... thought I'd done it for real for a while :o
 
I can sympathise - I have had separation anxiety before with my piggies and resulting horrible dreams. I also get them if one of my piggies is ill.

Funnily enough - last sunday and monday night I had horrible piggie nightmares for a different reason. My pigs, mixed in with babies and other new pigs (with mange and other illnesses) all getting mixed up/escaping and getting into each other's enclosures....and an incoming storm!

It was prompted by seeing an extremely distressing video on my FB feed on sunday from a piggie owner proudly announced their piggie was in a labour. I took one look at the video (an hour after it had been posted) and realised the pig was having a serious problem with birthing and suggested vet attention be sought immediately. Prior to my post at least 20people had sent "cooing good luck" posts - clearly not realising anything was wrong from the video.
I don't know what the outcome was - I do know the owner posted it was too gutting to talk about... and I had to leave the group I was so angry and upset.
The terrible suffering that piggie went through owing to the ignorance of both the owner and the group has played on my mind - and obviously resulted in my recent nightmares.

This forum is one of the best places to get advice on piggie matters. Facebook groups are clearly in some cases very limited.
 
I once dreamt that I went outside and there were loads of hutches and I thought to myself I hadn't fed them for a while
When I went into the hutches there were dead and dieing rabbits and guinea pigs and their babies and rats living with them.Really nasty
 
That sound's like a horrible dream! It would have really upset me :( I think you need some piggy lovin's xx
 
I always have piggy dreams especially about the ones I've rehomed cause I often foster 3 or 4 at a time, I've fosterd babies, moms with babies and just normal pigs but whenever I've rehomed them or are going to rehome them over the next days I have awful dreams about them getting adopted by ppl who feed them to there snakes or ppl as use them as bait in a dog fighting ring or just to ppl who abuse them for fun and each dream is just so vivid that I have bad nightmares and sometimes I can't even sleep afterward am I crazy?? :doh:
 
@Caviequeen I used to have dreams like that before I found homes for my surprise babies, I was convinced they'd be fed to snakes! Luckily they all went to fantastic people, mostly through the forum :)

I think I need piggy cuddles for the sake of my health!
 
Three more days before piggy cuddles - I haven't seen them since last Thursday! :bye:
 
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