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Choc now has a friend
His name is strypey because he has black and tan stripes
He is 10 weeks old
It wasn't my intention to come out of pets at home with a pig however but as soon as I got in the shop he started calling for me and wouldn't stop
So I asked the person who is taking me round to investigate who was calling for me so she did and lucky for me it was him
As soon as she put him in my hands he went straight from my headset cable so I moved it out of his way when he tried to go in my jacket sleeve couldn't fit then bits my jacket because it was it is felt that you couldn't get in
I can't believe the change in shock as soon as he saw him his face lit up according to the sighted person that was in the ring with me when I put them in the cage together after I cleaned it all out
There are two water bottles one each and there are two pellet balls one each end and there is a massive pile of hair day in the middle for them to sleep and eat in at the moment because I don't want to put any Heidi is in case the little one gets trapped and can't get out
Choc seems really really happy
So I know I did the right thing
I can't believe how small stripey story compare to Choc you forget how small they are until you see a baby one and then you're like oh my God what a pig was that size ones
I will keep you regularly updated as to how mad we are driving me LOL
But I just thought I would come and let you know about stripes
 
I have been worried about chocs mental health recently
So I went and looked on the Internet for symptoms of guinea pig depression and he had about eight or nine treats so I thought I had to help him by getting him a friend
What worried me was that the high consumption was going up and up and up and apparently that is one of the first symptoms of depression is if you're going to take just constantly eat and does nothing else there were more but I don't want to make myself so hard by going through them all
If stripey goes to sleep under the hay and Choc can't see him he starts screaming for him could you get panicky because you can't see him and he was never like that with you get the pigs that failed when I matched in with them before
I think stripey is part satin because the stripes change colour in the light but I don't know what the other part of a mess there is no Abyssinian in Henlow because his hair is really flat and silky and soft and you pass all the time
Correction pass like a cat
They seem to have stopped having the debate that has been going on for the last hour and an hour and I quite happily thing so it can't be too scary freedom of them are slightly in Norwich stripes is tiny but is beautiful
They are currently both eating hi Peter do you know the veg so to get out I will try them again in the morning
Choc is really happy so I'm very pleased because I was a bit worried but I thought if I do nothing and you start to lose weight I will beat myself up because I didn't do anything sooner
So I know I have done the right thing by getting him a friend and because stripey is a baby chocs excepted in no problem
 
I've put some alfalfa hay in there so that stripey can get some sleep because chocolate is to play with him and stripey is very tired because he's baby Hoblitt
 
Thats lovely! How nice that choc has a cute new friend.
 
Choc seems to be following stripey everywhere he goes no matter where he goes he is finding this is stop because I'm wondering if he thinks if you lose sight of him and stripey or magic me vanishing will come back so I hope this kind of behaviour and start to stop because I feel a bit sorry frustrates
Stripey is really small is a scrap of a hoglet tiny little thing called in and upon the one hand top was like that once very long time ago now
Correction I can hold him in the palm of one hand chalk was like that once
 
Stripes is managed to find where the water bottle is hooray
He's not very good at using it though it's hilarious
Pro hoglet
My dictation is being rubbish tonight or either that or I'm slurring my speech because of my increased medication
I'd forgotten how light communicating guinea pigs actually are well that's going to be an interesting background sound for all my recordings LOL
 
I have added a couple of cardboard tubes in and you have finally tire themselves out by running through them and they start and then back to the tubes and the start I know they're asleep thank goodness for that what a racket
 
I will probably be booking up at some stupid hour in the morning in the middle of the night more like I don't playing again I'm very happy though it's nice to see that my older pig has turned back into a young one again
 
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Hi Maddy just changed your dictation above, I will try and help do that whenever I am on it must be annoying for you.

I am so pleased you have found Chock the perfect friend! Stripey is very lucky to have found such a caring mum, I have added this thread to my watch list as I can't wait to here more about him.

Lee
 
Oh Maddy, I am so happy for you and Chock.
I know you had been thinking of getting him a friend, and it does sound like Stripey was meant to be part of your family.
It sounds like everything is going well and Chock is a very happy boy tonight.
 
Awwww Chock has a new friend, how lovely!

Big bonus is that now you have a new piggie friend to spoil. Happy for all three of you.
 
So bedtime came from myself last night and they were still running about the kids like mad so I thought how Eric and I going to get through to them best time to go to sleep
I put a carrot cottage in this morning I woke up and I panicked because there was complete silence and I thought oh no what's that it's happened to stripes what is chocs kill them or something so I went in the house and the pair of them were snuggling together in a house that was meant for one pig so how to lead and manage to fit in I have no idea
So I have put the main borrow backing which is a wooden house from pets at home is meant for a rabbit and I filled it up with high there is also a separate haystack outside in the cage so we can both eat different types of hay if they want to
That by snuggled in there quite happily and there is no sound so I think they've gone back to sleep
So I was being a worried mum
And yes you are right no I can spend twice as much money because I've got to Piggy's I don't need any more excuses to spend money on them but no I can make more excuses to spend more money that's great LOL
:)
They seem to realise that I that I house means sleep time and sleep eating time and chilling out time
I'm so happy for choc

Just thought I would give you an update as to how their first night together was
 
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I am hoping that I can use the keyboard on my screen soon but the shakes will have to stop first in order for me to do that
 
I am going to try and get a picture of the pair of them with stripey at the side see that already because it's literally like little and large it's hilariously funny to see them sitting side-by-side because the size difference it's hilarious
Chalk looks like a giant pig in comparison stripey
I haven't tried to run them yet because I'm not sure if stripey because he is so small would be able to get out of the bars of the pen and that is the last thing I need a little hoglet on the loose because I would quite like to have my electric cables in tact LOL
 
My friend is going to try and take some pictures this afternoon so hopefully I should be able to post them that's if this is still enough for the pictures to be taken of course because you know what pigs and photo shoots I like virtually impossible to do
:)
So maybe you can to try and help me to identify the breed of stripey because I'm not entirely sure what he is he is a satin cross but I don't know what the other bit is chock is half caddy half American shorthair who looks like a Staffordshire bull terrier but he's got ginger stomach
Half Teddy bear and half American short hair
 
My friend couldn't take any pictures of stripey because he was in lightning bolts mode
As in when my friend got in and Charlotte he would move just about when my phone was about to take the picture so I will have to wait until he's a bit less pay me before I trying get any pictures of him silly hoglet
Stripey is unbelievably fast moving around the cage are you blink and you missing is that quick so running in the pen is not an option right now because I think you could just get out he's not quite wide enough for the pen to hold him and the last thing I need is for him to be on the loose with my instruments and my electric cabling and goodness knows what else Plus I don't think chalk would be very happy if stripey was running about the floor and he was in the pen so I am going to know have to wait for a couple of weeks for a straight piece about out a bit because he is very Bendy at the minute
Stripey has now realised that S is for eating and not for playing with because him and chalk were eating out of the bowl together this afternoon which was lovely
Correction lettuce
 
I was giving chalk and stripey your night night leaves and I heard straight piece week week noise for the first time it's a tiny noise
It was hardly even a week that's all it was only just audible chalk did give him a lesson in wicking however because I brought the salad bag upstairs Anderson is chocker at rustling he decided to start we quickly king and then stripey sock or can I make that noise let's have a go anaesthetic we noise came out our bless them
They are very good at sharing is a bowl
Chalk no longer feels the need to follow stripey Oliver the cage
He has no realised that if he goes to the other end of the cage and straight piece in the borrow he's going to stay in the borrow until chuck cons back so chalk is no quite happy to go and eat some pallets out of the bowl and we stripey iOS 8 I think the night together in the cage seem to settle him because whenever stripey one out of his site yesterday he got really upset but today he's been quite good because he realises that stripey isn't going anywhere thank goodness because the racket that chocolate is making was driving me up the wall
He isn't too keen on stripey taking food out of his mouth however
It's nice to have my happy younger pick back by giving him a lovely weary pig it's like I've got the young child back again it was like he was getting really old before he should've been I think that was because he was depressed per guy but no he is happy again because stripey Siri which is nice
 
Its good that chock is liking his new friend and that he doesnt feel depressed anymore. Has chock always been alone?
 
So lovely that Chock has a new friend. Can't wait to see a picture of them together. :)
 
Chalk has been on his own on an off for a couple of years
I have tried to introduce him to do at the pigs but both matches failed
But this one seems to be going really well and it's only day two because yesterday was strike is first proper day here
The boys both woke me up at 4 o'clock chasing each other up and down the cage playing
Stripey thought he would be helpful by trying to get into the house when I was trying to clean it silly pig
But he loves lettuce he's learned that S is for eating from Choc
Correction lettuce
They're both in the Barrow eating hi it's quieten down now that mummies got up silly pigs :)
The pics that field with chalk when I introduced them when was another Simeon who is incredibly bossy and I can't remember the breed of the other one
But he was scared of both of them
We're as my stripey it was love at first sniff LOL
 
What was the deciding factor and really get my head in before I got chocker friend was I looked up symptoms of can you pick depression and chalk had about eight of the symptoms
So when I went to the pet shop on Wednesday afternoon and had stripey squealing for me and I realised it was a meal I had to do what was right for Choc and come home with him
I get in trouble when I touch stripey chalk really doesn't like it I get rumble that loudly
And T clicked at
He even told my friend off for going near the cage to try and take a picture of the pair of them and he wasn't even going in there so you can imagine what kind of abuse I get when I go win
Piggies are very funny animals but beautiful but very funny
 
Chalk wasn't like this with either of the other pegs he ran in the opposite direction away from them where is your father stripey everywhere
Correction for those stripey everywhere
This dictation really does not like my accent
I should complain to Apple that it doesn't like Scottish voice says it's not fit for purpose LOL
 
Sounds like stripey is the perfect fit for chock. I have two that like to chase each other all over their cage too and make heaps of noise doing it. I don't mind, they're happy and having fun with each other.
 
I know that stripey is part satin braid because his colours change in the light his stripes he's black and tan but when the light hits him at certain angles the stripes literally change colour it's really weird but I'm not entirely sure about the other part of him is his coat is like silk literally feels like silk but it is short though it's all going in One Direction and it's flat so there is no Abyssinian him at all
I did feel some of the pigs that we sharing the enclosure with him and a few of them did have very slightly Satz and I thought no none of you will do because you've got Abyssinian you and you end up being really bossy and chocolate very sad and then when I asked the girl if I could feel the stripey one again she said is looking right at you as if to say what did you put me down for a bit and join a cuddle maybe he was in doing but in my headset on my jacket in Tiley sure but it was purring
I got to hear his week we can always again this morning at breakfast time and it's just audible such a tiny noise
I brought the salad bag upstairs with me again because chocolate is the noise it makes when he started squealing as he knew was going to get fed and then stripey followed the noise pattern and he started up if you can call it starting up I could only just hear the week bless him it's tiny
He is about the size of a 12 week old female rat without the tail are unbelievably little
I can't believe the choppers that size ones
You forget how small they are until you see a baby :)
 
Mind you when I got charcoal him he was so small he could fit inside a toilet roll
Correction Choc
I have now switch my accent from Scottish to a generic English one to see if it understands me and it does because only got one mistake how weird
 
I went in to see how the pair of them are doing and I'll striped pop tarts head from Heywoods hiding I never stroking is happening is purring but chop decided to rumble at me so I left them to it I don't know what's got into him chocolate he is very fatherly almost to go to stripey lesson
Correction bless him
I have put all the hay inside the house today so there is no outside haystack and they're both quite happy munching away in the house and I do come out to chase each other everywhere shut hasn't grown up in his head he still thinks he's a baby and self I think but then the fact that he Sperry protective over stripey means he must understand he is an adult maybe he is in touch with this in a pig like humans are with their inner child
It's actually nice to hear them communicating in having a chat about goodness knows but they seem to like having debates that last for hours I have no idea what over but it's still quite interesting to hear all the different vocalisation between the pair of them
 
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