Posh, Ginger and who?

Oh I'm so sorry, sounds like a bit of a complete fail, like when Tallulah met the main herd but luckily with less bloodshed! Hope everyone calms down, sending hugs x
 
PigglePuggle said:
Oh I'm so sorry, sounds like a bit of a complete fail, like when Tallulah met the main herd but luckily with less bloodshed! Hope everyone calms down, sending hugs x
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Yes, it really turned nasty in such a short space of time. Luckily it’s only hurt pride, I can’t see any injuries so at least that’s a big plus. I did everything by the book so don’t feel I could have really done anymore. They seemed fine as neighbours, always up at the bars together, so who knows what the problem was. I think they are all very dominant characters tbh after seeing this.
With Ted is was so completely different, he just walked around them, never tried to hump them, after five minutes he just went and sat in a large carrot cottage and Posh joined him and then started to groom his ears. Within an hour I’d moved them all out in the run in the garden. Apart from the odd sneaky nip by Ginger in the first week, everything was calm and pleasant, maybe they just didn’t appreciate his enthusiasm? Why the girls started having a go at each other is beyond me, who knows with these very complex creatures 😟
Calm has now descended so we will take a bit of time to contemplate what next 🤨
 
Thanks everyone for all your support, it’s been a bit of a eye opener,
PigglePuggle said:
Oh I'm so sorry, sounds like a bit of a complete fail, like when Tallulah met the main herd but luckily with less bloodshed! Hope everyone calms down, sending hugs x
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Gosh yes I remember that bonding session went so bad with poor Tallulah and that awful gash on her back that then reacted to her stitches. Luckily she found lovely Ollie x
 
Bill & Ted said:
Thanks everyone for all your support, it’s been a bit of a eye opener,

Gosh yes I remember that bonding session went so bad with poor Tallulah and that awful gash on her back that then reacted to her stitches. Luckily she found lovely Ollie x
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Yes that was a real surprise for us too, Tallulah just a baby and everyone so friendly through the cage bars! There's nowt so queer as pigs x
 
Merab's Slave said:
Not silly at all.
Piggies seem to have a special gift for worming their way into our hearts within minutes.
I fell totally and completely in love with Merab the moment I set eyes on her.
What about a rescue sow just for Hector?
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yes, this maybe a possibility and what we have discussed. Maria is prepared to bond him with a sow, but at present they don’t have any single sows in atm. They are all bonded with neutered males. She is going to ring a lady in Devon who has a sow on her books waiting to come into the rescue, so we will have to see if we can arrange to help pick this piggie up if the owner still has her.
 
That’s such a shame, it might’ve been easier with Ted because he was older so not as much testosterone.
You’ll figure something out for Hector though, at least bonding him with Posh and Ginger wasn’t the only way you could keep him. So even though it’s a real shame, it’s not a heart-wrenching disappointment.
But I mean, you make room where you can when they’ve become part of your family. I only ever thought I’d have 2 piggies until Little and BB fell out. Even though BB had only been with us a month, there was no way he was going back and now we have 4 piggies.
I’m glad the girls still like each other despite them going for one another, that’s a relief!
 
So sorry things didn't go as planned. What naughty piggies. The main thing is that no piggy was hurt.

The silver lining is that you can have even more piggies.😃🐾💕💕
 
How very scary for you and the piggies! I'm pleased nopig was hurt. Just as well you had the ovengloves handy .

I'm sure you'll figure something out. Even if it's Hector living alongside as a neighbour.
 
YvonneBlue said:
So sorry things didn't go as planned. What naughty piggies. The main thing is that no piggy was hurt.

The silver lining is that you can have even more piggies.😃🐾💕💕
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Well we have a 140 cm and a 160 cm Plaza which are a good sized cages for 2 couples, so the only problem is a lack of single sows in the rescue but that might change very soon, you never know. Hectors fine for now, he would only be on his own at the rescue I suppose being a single neutered male.
 
Little Ones said:
That’s such a shame, it might’ve been easier with Ted because he was older so not as much testosterone.
You’ll figure something out for Hector though, at least bonding him with Posh and Ginger wasn’t the only way you could keep him. So even though it’s a real shame, it’s not a heart-wrenching disappointment.
But I mean, you make room where you can when they’ve become part of your family. I only ever thought I’d have 2 piggies until Little and BB fell out. Even though BB had only been with us a month, there was no way he was going back and now we have 4 piggies.
I’m glad the girls still like each other despite them going for one another, that’s a relief!
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Yes, in hindsight I think you might be right. The girls are only around 18 months old, so didn’t think they would have turned into “old spinners” so soon 😄
 
Betsy said:
How very scary for you and the piggies! I'm pleased nopig was hurt. Just as well you had the ovengloves handy .

I'm sure you'll figure something out. Even if it's Hector living alongside as a neighbour.
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Yes hopefully if we can get him bonded reasonably soon, that would be the best thing for him. We have fallen for him and hope he can stay with us
 
I'm sorry it didn't work out - I really hoped your 'bonding' would go better than ours did.
George was happier with the girls next door than he was on his own - once he had assured himself that Zara couldn't get through! It took her nearly a week to stop cracking teeth at him through the bars. It unsettled the bond between Zara and Louise for a day or so. It was like Louise couldn't get over Zara putting a blocker on things because she took a fancy to George, and there was a lot of pee spraying and back leg kicking when Zara went up to her! But things did settle back down.

George has now found a friend to live with. We got a call from a lady who we had a 'last piggy' from years back, asking if we were in the market for a lone female last week. After the recent bonding traumas I was in two minds but after a couple of calls we decided to give Flora a try on a fit-or-return basis, because of course she had to like George, George had to like her, and Zara had to not kick off about it all. I'm not sure George was entirely convinced: if Louise was a Green and Zara was a Red (and how!) then Flora is Amber. She's 2 and quite a little girl and after a week it looks like George is dominant (although barely, I mean it's George, and he's wiping pee off his face every day) which is good for us as when the weather improves and they go outside she'll hopefully follow his lead and he's a safe pair of paws.

If you do social media it might be worth putting out feelers for any lone sows locally? People can be glad they're off their hands sometimes.
 
Bill & Ted said:
Yes it’s been a bit overwhelming! never mind could have been much worse, everyone’s ok and settled now x
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I was so shocked when Red and Brillo had their fight, those bites go in very deep. It's good the girls have settled back together, it would have been awful if their bond had been broken. Sending you all hugs.
 
piggieminder said:
I was so shocked when Red and Brillo had their fight, those bites go in very deep. It's good the girls have settled back together, it would have been awful if their bond had been broken. Sending you all hugs.
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Thanks so much! The girls seem fine now, had their tea and nibbling on hay atm together. Yes, so glad I put those old ski gloves on. I could still feel her biting so hard into them. Posh never bites, if it had been Ginger I would have been less shocked, although I know it wasn’t me it was aimed at.
It‘s all quite shocking, and at lightening speed too, bet you must have been when your boys fell out x
 
I’m sorry it didn’t work out. If only piggies weren’t so set in their ways 😭 I’m glad no pig was injured and the girls are still together.
 
Siikibam said:
I’m sorry it didn’t work out. If only piggies weren’t so set in their ways 😭 I’m glad no pig was injured and the girls are still together.
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Many thanks, yes “there’s worse things“ at the moment so trying not to think how awful it was, definitely not for the faint hearted! No harm done luckily x
 
Oh no! I’m so sorry that it didn’t go well :( was really hoping the wedding would be lovely, piggies definitely know what they want. Glad you had gloves at hand as well xx
 
Aww..I'm sorry it didn't workout. The girls must have been used to Ted's calm demeanor and don't want to deal with a young energetic boar. Glad that at least they're all settled again.
 
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