The mischievous monsieurs

[Piggie Mom]

Hello everyone, I've become inspired by all your wonderful piggie diaries and thought maybe I'd give it a shot to let my piggies have their time in the spotlight telling you guys a bit about their days! Incase you haven't read our introduction (or don't remember) we're a family of four piggies, three dogs and some humans. The piggies are all males and live in two separate pairs, Lakrits & Oreo (the names inspired by sweets ) and Söpö & Töpö (the names different variations of my now passed piggie Nöpö's name). Hopefully their personalities will shine through in their entries so without further ado I'll let Oreo begin!

Dearest diary,
Mother finally realized that my very old bestie Lakrits can't get into the hammock without extra support and added another hidey on it to make it stable enough that my big bro could get in. She however didn't take into account that the hidey is one of my favorites (especially to lay on top of while Lakrits is inside it ) and that I'd hijack it from my brother, so today she got to witness me squeezing myself into the carrot-hidey with Lakrits, Lakrits of course wasn't in the mood for sharing so I got the carrot all to myself! Mother says it is starting to be in a dire need for a wash, but I, and Lakrits too, think it's way too comfortable to be taken away from us.

Here is a picture of me enjoying the hidey and being a sweet little angel Later on I ended up wreaking havoc by refusing to come out from under the sofa even when mother promised me treats, but let's ignore that and just appreciate my cuteness!

Kisses,
Oreo

 

[Wiebke]

Hello everyone, I've become inspired by all your wonderful piggie diaries and thought maybe I'd give it a shot to let my piggies have their time in the spotlight telling you guys a bit about their days! Incase you haven't read our introduction (or don't remember) we're a family of four piggies, three dogs and some humans. The piggies are all males and live in two separate pairs, Lakrits & Oreo (the names inspired by sweets ) and Söpö & Töpö (the names different variations of my now passed piggie Nöpö's name). Hopefully their personalities will shine through in their entries so without further ado I'll let Oreo begin!

Dearest diary,
Mother finally realized that my very old bestie Lakrits can't get into the hammock without extra support and added another hidey on it to make it stable enough that my big bro could get in. She however didn't take into account that the hidey is one of my favorites (especially to lay on top of while Lakrits is inside it ) and that I'd hijack it from my brother, so today she got to witness me squeezing myself into the carrot-hidey with Lakrits, Lakrits of course wasn't in the mood for sharing so I got the carrot all to myself! Mother says it is starting to be in a dire need for a wash, but I, and Lakrits too, think it's way too comfortable to be taken away from us.
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Here is a picture of me enjoying the hidey and being a sweet little angel Later on I ended up wreaking havoc by refusing to come out from under the sofa even when mother promised me treats, but let's ignore that and just appreciate my cuteness!

Kisses,
Oreo

Hi Oreo

Nooo - having your lush carrot cosy messed with and at risk of being taken away for washing, now that you have just got it nicely perfumed with 'eau de boar'? Oh dear! You are in dire need of moral comfort indeed!

And what is wrong with holing up under the sofa to recover from that episode?

Yours kindly Barcud 'Red Kite' (living with my mum Modron 'Mother Goddess', mother of my two sons Baeddan 'Boar' and Brangwyn 'White Raven', and my sister Millyn 'Sweet Violet', mother of my son Merlin and my only daugher Blodyn 'Flower' - it's a bit of a complicated family story)
But we make half of the current Wiebke's Tribe and fill four of the five cages. There's just my sons' two married in wives (Baeddan lives with his half-sister Blodyn) and the oldies group. Apart from the oldies we pretty much look all very similar - including the in-laws.

I'm second on the left, next to my sister Millyn with our kids Merlin next to me and Blodyn next to her mother. Modron (the Matriarch) is on the right with our two sons blonde Brangwyn and red Baeddan.


This is henpecked me with my mum and my sister after the kids all got their own apartments.
We three elders were dumped in dog walking wasteland at the start of the summer holidays 2022 but had been caught by a forum member and taken to a local rescue by the time the babies started arriving. My manhood got dealt with as soon as I arrived in rescue although I get told by my family that was all to the best. They don't want more kids to fall out with, and especially they don't want to give birth to more kids I can fall out with.

 

[Piggie Mom]

Hi Oreo

Nooo - having your lush carrot cosy messed with and at risk of being taken away for washing, now that you have just got it nicely perfumed with 'eau de boar'? Oh dear! You are in dire need of moral comfort indeed!

And what is wrong with holing up under the sofa to recover from that episode?

Yours kindly Barcud 'Red Kite' (living with my mum Modron 'Mother Goddess', mother of my two sons Baeddan 'Boar' and Brangwyn 'White Raven', and my sister Millyn 'Sweet Violet', mother of my son Merlin and my only daugher Blodyn 'Flower' - it's a bit of a complicated family story)
But we make half of the current Wiebke's Tribe and fill four of the five cages. There's just my sons' two married in wives (Baeddan lives with his half-sister Blodyn) and the oldies group. Apart from the oldies we pretty much look all very similar - including the in-laws.

I'm second on the left, next to my sister Millyn with our kids Merlin next to me and Blodyn next to her mother. Modron (the Matriarch) is on the right with our two sons blonde Brangwyn and red Baeddan.
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This is henpecked me with my mum and my sister after the kids all got their own apartments.
We three elders were dumped in dog walking wasteland at the start of the summer holidays 2022 but had been caught by a forum member and taken to a local rescue by the time the babies started arriving. My manhood got dealt with as soon as I arrived in rescue although I get told by my family that was all to the best. They don't want more kids to fall out with, and especially they don't want to give birth to more kids I can fall out with.
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My my, you've got an even more complicated family than me! I decided to have a falling out with my brother as soon as we reached 5 months of age, but luckily that's all the family I've had to put in their place. I'm dreading the day mother decides to get my manhood dealt with hopefully Lakrits teaches me his ways of not caring at all about introductions so that I can stay intact, even if a lady friend would be a delight!

Today I even allowed Lakrits to have the wonderfully smelly cozy carrot for almost an hour before I decided it was rumbling time, soon I'll be a true gentleman just like him

 

[Piggie Mom]

Dearest diary,
I've been living in mom's room for almost a week now with this weird dude Töpö. We had been happilhy living in our usual cage for a whole week when I did a tiny misjudgement and accidentally cornered Töpö while doing my usual rumblestrutting. Töpö did not like this and I ended up hurting myself flying into a ramp. The wound isn't that bad but still any tips for a smoother healing is appreciated, my mom is being an overbearing mother-hen right now

I've been enjoying the larger space and there's no ramps to fly into or corners to accidentally corner Töpö in, however I don't like that Töpö has decided that he isn't scared of me anymore! I sometimes have to be the one who moves out of the way when I'm the one rumblestrutting... We've not fought since last week even if we've woken mom every morning at 5 am while having a run around the cage. Mom is wondering whether she should move us back into our old but slightly too small cage (for these two hormonal boar teens) or whether she should let us stay in her room until the cage upgrade arrives.

(you can see the wound there, its since gotten a scab which looks slighty yucky as I tried to wash it away and made it have to make a new scab, but it hasn't bled there's only been the exudate? {not sure exactly what it's called in English})

Sending kisses,
Söpö

 

[Wiebke]

Dearest diary,
I've been living in mom's room for almost a week now with this weird dude Töpö. We had been happilhy living in our usual cage for a whole week when I did a tiny misjudgement and accidentally cornered Töpö while doing my usual rumblestrutting. Töpö did not like this and I ended up hurting myself flying into a ramp. The wound isn't that bad but still any tips for a smoother healing is appreciated, my mom is being an overbearing mother-hen right now

I've been enjoying the larger space and there's no ramps to fly into or corners to accidentally corner Töpö in, however I don't like that Töpö has decided that he isn't scared of me anymore! I sometimes have to be the one who moves out of the way when I'm the one rumblestrutting... We've not fought since last week even if we've woken mom every morning at 5 am while having a run around the cage. Mom is wondering whether she should move us back into our old but slightly too small cage (for these two hormonal boar teens) or whether she should let us stay in her room until the cage upgrade arrives.
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(you can see the wound there, its since gotten a scab which looks slighty yucky as I tried to wash it away and made it have to make a new scab, but it hasn't bled there's only been the exudate? {not sure exactly what it's called in English})

Sending kisses,
Söpö

HUGS
I was stuck with baby boar minding duties after being told that they were my sons after all and that they were too old to be safe around their womenfolk. All I can say was, I was not pleased and they arrived with no respect or manners whatsoever, one couldn't turn his motor off, one got constantly in the way and was in an arms race with litter brother whose ego alone needed a whole cage for its own, even then... So I can totally feel for you!

My human serf says you can make saline solution at home by mixing 1 teaspoon of table salt into 250 ml of boiled, cooled water. She says it stings a little but it is her emergency go-to disinfectant.
She says to better not use any human creams (not even the baby stuff) as it can dry out very sensitive piggy skin. She says that because of our faster metabolism, we heal a lot quicker than humans, anyway. Even if we managed to pull off scabs and have to start not quite all over again.
First Aid: Immediate Care Measures and Non-medication Products

Pigsonally, I would propose that your mommy moves out (voice from the serf in the back: "You would say that, would you?") or see your joy of life in the middle of the night as human enrichment.
Human voice from the back: "Don't you dare tell Oreo to have bottle banging drinking orgy in the middle of the night in order to move mommy out, Barks!"

Humans really don't have any proper appreciation of what it means to be a boar...

I sincerely hope you won't get stuck back in a small space with a teenager who has just found his own ego.

Yours boarly
Barcud

 

[Piggie Mom]

HUGS
I was stuck with baby boar minding duties after being told that they were my sons after all and that they were too old to be safe around their womenfolk. All I can say was, I was not pleased and they arrived with no respect or manners whatsoever, one couldn't turn his motor off, one got constantly in the way and was in an arms race with litter brother whose ego alone needed a whole cage for its own, even then... So I can totally feel for you!

My human serf says you can make saline solution at home by mixing 1 teaspoon of table salt into 250 ml of boiled, cooled water. She says it stings a little but it is her emergency go-to disinfectant.
She says to better not use any human creams (not even the baby stuff) as it can dry out very sensitive piggy skin. She says that because of our faster metabolism, we heal a lot quicker than humans, anyway. Even if we managed to pull off scabs and have to start not quite all over again.
First Aid: Immediate Care Measures and Non-medication Products

Pigsonally, I would propose that your mommy moves out (voice from the serf in the back: "You would say that, would you?") or see your joy of life in the middle of the night as human enrichment.
Human voice from the back: "Don't you dare tell Oreo to have bottle banging drinking orgy in the middle of the night in order to move mommy out, Barks!"

Humans really don't have any proper appreciation of what it means to be a boar...

I sincerely hope you won't get stuck back in a small space with a teenager who has just found his own ego.

Yours boarly
Barcud

I shall immediately inform my mom how lucky she is to be given such wonderful nighttime enrichment! She was kind enough to do a full clean of the other half of our cage today and we've already shown our appreciation by rumblestrutting and having a tiny discussion (no teeth only angry noises) over who gets to be on the clean side. It was very tiring so we ended up eating hay side-by-side even though we just had tried to convince mom we were disagreeing and then we took a lovely nap. I'll make sure that mom doesn't put us back in the other cage until we get the upgrade, she'll get to enjoy my shenanigans for 1-2 weeks more

Hopefully she didn't read that about the saline solution though! I don't like her doing any health checks so I hate it when she tries to check my nose (even if I still let her look at my teeth for some reason, but I somehow know when she stops looking at the teeth even if she tries to trick me )

Thank you for making me feel better about my horrible fate Barcud, I'm very grateful I only have to share my cage with one ego-filled teenager and not two, luckily we get along flawlessly whenever mom isn't home and mostly sleep and eat, we only decide to put on a bit show when she's regularly coming to see how we're behaving

Yours mischievously,
Söpö

P.S here's a picture of us, mom wasn't quick enough so I managed to make everything blurry by coming to inspect the phone!

 

[Merab]

You are very gorgeous piggies.
I am going to enjoy reading your stories of everyday piggy life

 

[Piggie Mom]

Hello all!

Today's been quite an eventful day for all the piggies so there'll be updates from both pairs

Momma has been tryna bribe us with dandelions today. We've become "feral" now that she's letting us stay in the cage 24/7 so that she doesn't accidentally disturb our bond and we've been utilizing this as our excuse to not accept pets. Söpö hasn't completely realized the power we now posses, but I do! I run away every time momma enters the room and only approach her when she offer a snack (I was first not even going to accept snacks from her hand but my self-control wasn't strong enough )

Me and Söpö are still rumbling, but we can sit next to each other while eating and I let him steal my food after some protesting instead of chasing him off (don't worry though, I'm not letting him bully me to not eat anything) and he didn't do anything when I ran straight into him on accident when momma moved one of the dandelions suspiciously. We're still very much rumbling, but I believe our bond is getting to a point that it shouldn't get too shaken when we get moved to the cage update!

Here we are enjoying some dandelions (even if I was too scared to eat any with that weird picture-taking thing in our cage!

Rumbles,
Töpö

PS.

Most of Söpö's scab fell of today so soon he'll be back to having a completely white nose

 

[Piggie Mom]

Greetings all,

Today has been quite unpleasant for me. It all started wonderfully with matte (a Swedish nickname for a female pet owner) deciding that as the grass was still humid she'd bring the grass inside in the form of dandelion flowers. I was thrilled and got to enjoy a few before she decided to take me with her to help with making some breakfast.

Then horror struck, she noticed something wet on her hand and decided on a thourough check on my no-no area, I was utterly indignified by her actions. She seemed quite worried which of course made me a bit unsure of myself too, but all was forgotten when I got more hay and dandelions! She also replaced our carrot-cosy with a cosy tent that I love, so really I had no reason to complain anymore.

I shouldn't have celebrated too soon though... matte piggienapped me and Oreo and checked the both of us, I think she compared my bits with that little monkey's then she had the audacity to wash my bum and do yet another check! Like give me a break, woman! Luckily she listened to my silent protests (I'm such a sweetheart that I didn't show my dislike in any other way than trying to climb into matte's lap when she was done checking to show that I didn't want to be there anymore ) and let me go back into my cage, newly cleaned of course! And I got to sleep in peace for a few hours before she took us out for some lap time.

I'm very proud to tell you all that I've finally teached the monkey how to sit still and enjoy lap time, before he was always running around and exploring, but he's finally learned the art of enjoying matte's pets and cuddles. I'm feeling amazing and have been doing my business even though matte's been worrying. I also had a blast trying to get out my peppers from the enrichment toy matte made me, she had reinforced it so much this time that it took me 2 minutes instead of 2 seconds to shake it open! If it wasn't for the fact that I can't jump as high as before you really couldn't tell that I'm turning seven this summer

Here we are enjoying some lap time cuddles

Kisses,
Lakrits

 

[Merab]

What lovely tales you tell.
You sound very happy with matte, and of course, you are all gorgeous

 

[Piggie Mom]

Hello all,

I woke up with wheezy/rattly breathing today. At first it was very quiet so matte thought she was overreacting, but then I went into the wooden house and my breathing was echoed for the whole world to hear. Matte was already worried for me but now she's been holding me in her arms for most of the day. Sadly she had to put me back into the cage right in the middle of my cuddling as the teenagers in her room decided to have a little "fight", I think one sneaked up on the other and the sleeping pig got upset, so matte was understandably worried.

Luckily for me the teens relaxed quickly so I got to return into matte's arms soon after. She's been worrying about me having the same corroded(?) airways as Nöpö had as then antibiotics won't help with my possible URI... I'm a really old piggie and I've been incredibly lucky with my health up until now so I really hope matte doesn't worry too much about me, I've not been showing any pain even if it seems my body is slowly getting ready for going into endless rest.

Matte changed the carrot cozy to my purple tent, it's my favorite hidey! so I've been spending most of my day sleeping in it. Oreo has been really cuddly today even if he also was rumbling quite a bit while snuggling up to me, I ended up getting fed up with him and giving him a warning snap. I'm still not taking any **** no matter how old I might be We got even more daffodils today! I munched up a bunch of them and even stole some of Oreo's and now I'm going to go take another nap in my purple tent

sleepy kisses,
Lakrits

 

[Merab]

Hope you feel better Lakrits
You look very snug in your purple cosy

 

[Piggie Mom]

Helloo,
mother was incredibly busy yesterday, so no vlogging for me but I'm back on the computer now now!

Yesterday we were promised a new cage as an amazon packet arrived, I was obviously very excited, only to discover it wasn't a new cage, it was only some of the smaller stuff mother had ordered... I however got to try out the new cozy mother got us so my disappointment was quickly forgotten



Lakrits is much better again. Mother was really worried, but luckily it wasn't a URI, he's just got the same corroded (still not sure if that is the right term) airways as Nöpö had so we'll just keep an extra eye out. For now he's very happy with his tent cozy and his breathing was back to normal yesterday so as long as it doesn't permanently stay difficult to breathe Lakrits will still get to live out his fratboy dreams with me, his teenage companion. I keep him young and he keeps me from panicking when mother does something weird, so I'd say it's a win win!

Söpö and Töpö also got something from the amazon package, new hideys with big double exits so that their hormonal selves won't get locked inside a hidey. There was some rumbling when they got them, but after that they've been super happy and there's been even more popcorning than before. I got a tiny bit jealous of all of their fun, so I decided to go freeroam again. I haven't done than since I got jumpscared by the chihuahua laying in the dogbed I use to get in and out of the cage, it was quite traumatic realizing the black blob was ALIVE Mother also had the audacity to laugh at my horror, but my self-proclaimed housearrest ended today!

I had a lot of fun running around until mother grabbed me and had the audacity to cuddle and compliment me for being brave enough to leave the cage again. Of course I had to remind her that I still was cross with her, so I ran and hid under the sofa and had her try to get me out for 10 minutes c:<

Here's a picture of Söpö and Töpö's new hideys, mother thinks they're really good! Especially as she managed to build them herself without needing to take a break to avoid losing her sanity

Yours boaringly,
Oreo

 

[Piggie Mom]

Hiya,

Momma has been out most of the day today, so no new pictures sadly, but she did make some new toys for us from cardboard and bought us some coriander so I'm really looking forward to that (does anyone have any recommendations for other thread to use than jute twine for piggie toys, or is that the only piggie safe thread?)

I've been home alone with Söpö today, as all the humans we're busy today. As always we slept throughout the time momma was gone (we do that also when someone else is home who isn't momma) and when she finally got home we started our rumbling, I believe we're slowly making momma think she's the problem!

Momma was and got the coroplast for our c&c cage, that can arrive any day now. Apparently she hadn't thought about the fact that the sheets were 3m long so she had quite the project with getting them to fit into the car, and they won't look as clean as those pretty youtuber-cages now. The coroplast is black though, so it'll look gorgeous with mommas black&pink piggie cage dreams!

Yours rumblingly,
Töpö

To compensate for the lack of new photos here's a video of Lakrits eating a dandelion (if I can figure out how to add it )

 

[Piggie Mom]

The video was too large, so instead here's a pic of Töpö's first time outside!



He looks quite flabbergasted

 

[Merab]

The forum cannot host videos.
The way to do it is to post the video on another platform like YouTube and then put the link here.