We were up and at it quite early this morning in the quest to find BB his friend. We called up a couple of vets as suggested to us but had no luck. So then we started ringing pet shops, no luck there either really. Everyone was completely out of piggies - I suppose it’s Christmas after all
- apart from one shop. They told us they had 3 piggies, they said they won’t separate a pair so us only needing one worked out. We went on a mad rush via the bus to go collect one before there were only two left. We finally got there, I was convinced they’d have gone but they hadn’t. I absolutely fell in love with one, but that wasn’t the one we brought home unfortunately. We sat and watched the piggies for almost half an hour before making our pick. They were all smooth haired, but one was a white/grey with red eyes. He was just lovely, but he was leader of the pack and a no fly zone with us already having dominant BB. Funnily enough, the entire time I’ve always been saying that I don’t want one that looks like Little. As he’s a lemon agouti, he looks very similar to other lemon agoutis. Little is just too special to me that I didn’t want one that would have a near identical resemblance - if that makes sense. Anyway, the most submissive of the three piggies is the one we chose.... a lemon agouti
. With IDENTICAL markings to Little - blonde fur behind left ear, blonde stripe along half his body on the right side. He doesn’t have a crest like Little and he seems to be an American (?) unlike Little who is a rex. But still they look so similar. I’ve had a pit in my stomach about all this the entire time really, though. I thought that with our situation, the 3 male piggies left in the store seemed to be the most morally right thing I could do as boar trios don’t work and it was likely one would be going as a single. I don’t know... I’m hoping we’re doing the right thing. Ive never had a piggy from pets at home before, but they give you a pamphlet (with some misleading information) as well as call you after 2 days of adoption to make sure things are going well. I’ve never had a piggy this young either... I know people go nuts for baby pigs but I definitely think that they look cuter once they get a bit older. He’s only 8-10 weeks they told us. He’s not tame either, obviously. The only non tame pig I’ve ever had has been BB so the whole thing makes me a bit anxious!
We got home almost two hours ago. They said to leave baby alone for 24 hours. That didn’t really seem right to me, though. He was shaking so much. So we decided to take him and BB downstairs to the bonding pen. Surprise, surprise, BB went back into his submissive, scared state. We had two terrified pigs in the bonding pen. After half an hour, we gave up and just put them straight into the cage. I wasn’t sure if that was the best move, but to me baby needed to be with someone and BB wasn’t comfortable in the downstairs environment so was just frozen.
Anyway, it seems to be going well. Baby has been doing zoomies around the cage. He and BB are getting on, BB licked baby pigs ear a lot at first. I was shocked to my core when BB came out of his hidey to eat the hay. At the moment, we have to remove all hideys or we have to put lots of hay in his hidey with him to get him to eat. But he’s been coming out himself to eat which is what we wanted. He’s also finally took notice of the carrot cottage he’s had all week, too. It’s definitely perked him up and it hasn’t been long at all. Baby pig is eating, drinking and pooing well too. I was expecting him to keep to himself for a little while but he isn’t, he did seem very inquisitive though in the pet shop.
One thing that sets him apart from Little is that he has a colourful butt!