Two Breakfasts And Greedy Pigs!

[Cuddles With Cavies]

Got back from work this evening to my mother asking if I'd fed the pigs before I left this morning.
"Yes," I said, "they get their breakfast before I even get my coffee. Why?"
"Oh well," she said, "they were screaming. I thought you hadn't fed them. So I fed them again for you."
*me facepalm* "How much?"
"Not much," mother says, "just a few leaves of cos and a carrot and stick of cellary and oh also a tomato and some runner beans."
"Ugh thank you mother."

So now nobody is having dinner tonight because they duped my innocent mother into feeding them a second, massive breakfast!

 

[sport_billy]

I think they should be rewarded with a little dinner for their efforts Pesky piggies

 

[Guineapigfeet]

I have a special pink bowl that my pigs' veg goes into (twice a day, plus lettuce) and I can guess how much is right by how full the bowl is (roughly 1/3). When I went on holiday without my OH, he fed them three times a day, an entirely full bowl each time! I only know this as the first day I got back I made up their veg and he said '... is that all you give them...? No wonder they weren't eating it all'

He must have seen me make up a hundred meals before then!
Fortunately young metabolism meant they were not completely enormous!

 

[Flutterby]

Cheeky piggies! Mine scream the house down all the time saying they haven't been fed!

 

[flowerfairy]

Mine whistle when i give the dogs their meals and when i come back from the afternoon dog walk/foraging expedition!

 

[Kylie80]

My cat used to con everyone in the house into thinking she had never been fed and sometimes had three breakfasts which is why she was so fat. The piggies have only does this with pellets so far.

 

[Swissgreys]

Our piggies get their main veg meal first thing in the morning after the girls leave for school.
When the girls return 3 hours later for lunch apparently Ruby often 'tells' DD1 that she hasn't had any breakfast and needs to be fed immediately.

 

[Redribbon]

I get one day off a week and that is the time my pigs squeal for food constantly / they don't try it on with anyone else ob any other day as they know I'm the soft touch!

 

[piggieminder]

We have signals so I know if my OH fed the piggies before he went to work, sometimes he goes so early they don't even get up and other days they are wheeking at him before he gets to the bottom of the stairs. I leave an empty nugget bowl on the top of the cage at night if there's an empty bowl in the cage they've had them. If the veg knife is on the draining board he's given them cucumber because they begged for more (they won't eat veg from a bowl). Just leaves me to clean out hay boxes and refresh and try to ignore the wheeking everytime I open the fridge until tea time when they get assorted veg.

 

[Roclibrarian]

My husband feeds my girls on a Thursday as I work late. They always claim he's forgotten when I get in. I have to check for evidence of the veg moving in the fridge, or knife on the counter before I'm sure they are lying!

 

[PAMELAKT]

Ahahahaha this really made me laugh! They are such greddy little things... and you are just like me, mine get fed before I do as well!