Thank you Goblins

[Pound Shilling & Pig]

Hello Cam and Bann. We wanted to thank you for your recent advise on how to train a human. There has been some progress. In our household Sunday is weigh day and this Sunday one of us, Jaffy, had lost weight, again, so he is off to see the vet in the morning. In the meantime our human has been giving him and his friend Pendragon extra things to eat to try and fatten him up. Normally she is very stingy with the nuggets and only gives us a few twice a week but Jaffy and Pendragon have been getting them EVERY evening and a large portion at that! This evening after giving us our hay she quietly brought them their bowl of nuggets without letting them rattle. But we are NOT STUPID! We could smell them and as soon as Jaffy and Pendragon stuffed their faces in we heard the nuggets move. So we did as you suggested and started wheeking at her, not too loudly tho and then stared at her with the cutest, most expectant faces we could and it worked! She went away and came back with nuggets for the rest of us, only a few mind but nuggets are nuggets.

 

[Betsy]

I'm so pleased that Cam and Bann have helped you train your slave into giving you more nuggets by wheeking at her and looking cute. It is a disgraceful state of affairs to get into when your neighbours get more nuggets than you do. Keep up the good work!

The One and Only Thea
Shop Steward.

 

[weepweeps]

Good luck at the vets Jaffy.

Glad everyone is getting more nuggets.

 

[Pound Shilling & Pig]

Good luck at the vets Jaffy.

Glad everyone is getting more nuggets.

Jaffy did well at the vets. Lungs and heart sounded good, teeth great, no lumps or bumps, abdomen felt normal. He has always been a bit of a slimjim and is an active stress sort pig. He eats a lot so may just burn it through nervous energy. The plan is to keep feeding him up to see if he gains weight, if not he will need further investigation. My vet doesn't have experience of hypothyroidism in piggies but is going to look into it and chat to her exotics friends to see if that is a possibility.

 

[Lorcan]

Hello! We're glad to hear our advice has paid off and that Jaffy is also doing well. Dad tells us somepig called Blitzen could be like that, ate twice as much as Comet did but felt like he weighed nothing when you'd pick him up. Apparently his weight was stable, he was just slim.

Keep making that noise!

-Cam and Bann.

 

[Pound Shilling & Pig]

Just curious was Blitzen top pig? Jaffy is and our human thinks he might be burning up nervous energy making sure Pendragon doesn't steal his throne even tho they get on well together

 

[Lorcan]

I don't think so. He regularly stole Comet's food from his mouth so Comet would have to come back to me for his next mouthful Every single mealtime, lol. But it was more likely Comet, and he just wasn't really into throwing his weight around. Blitzen was built oddly, long and skinny and most of his weight was in his fabulous sheltie coat.