Eriathwens piggies

Thankyou all so much for the kind words. Today has been very difficult, I dropped Shelly off with the crematorium, she will be back home Thursday.

After doing that I got home, made a cup of tea and had a sit down, to my suprise I got a text from the Walsall rspca, asking if I had any space for a special needs male piggy.. and of course I do, always. So we will see what comes of that. There also may be something happening Friday but we will see, this was something planned before the loss of our dear Shelly but I had held back in case the results of her xrays concluded with the need for expensive medications, which took priority. But of course, sadly, it wasn't to be. So hopefully I will be able to reveal what that is at the end of the week.

It really feels like when I lose a pig, they send me another to care for, its very odd. Leonard did the same with Finley 🥲
 
I still have to go through the formalities, but it looks like this lovely little man will be joining us some point soon, I feel very honoured that they thought to reach out to me, I'm sure he will be very happy here with us. Keeping myself busy with the ones left behind always helps navigating grief, I find, and this seems like it was meant to be.

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Gus is gorgeous and you are exactly the right person to make up for his dodgy past, poor boy. I feel sometimes these things are just meant to be.
 
So remember I said something was happening Friday? After a 260 mile round trip.. we now have little Forrest and Silver the lethal white babies. They are absolutely lovely, really quite confident and seem to be fairly well functioning for lethals. Theyre covered in bite wounds from the other males picking on them and their incisors aren't great, but could be way worse! They're able to eat very well by themselves luckily although they are both totally blind and deaf, with neurological issues as well.

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The little tufty one is Forrest and Silver is the smooth haired little chap :)
They had their first bowl of critical care and grass pellets tonight, poor Silver for some reason is scared of the bowl..but Forrest has eaten loads, which is just as well as his teeth are the worst so he struggles the most with his veggies.

They've had a very good first day, eating and sleeping, as well as putting up with me weighing them and treating them for lice (they'll eventually need a bath but their bite wounds need to heal a little better first) Forrest is 369g and Silver is 406g.

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It probably isn't much of a secret how quickly I become attached to my piggies, but even for me, the speed of which these 2 boys have become so incredibly precious to me has been a bit of an experience. Forrest is still very much a live wire 🤣 and I've been working little and often with him to improve on the biting but lawd does he not sit still while out 😅
Silver has gained no weight at all and is quite picky with his food, he also gets very excited when food is placed into the cage and breaks out into spinning, so all the energy he's getting from his food is being used up doing that, hopefully the novelty of free access to food wears off soon and he can eat more calmly.

He spent some time with me today, and promptly fell asleep, I will never get over how easily rescue piggies will extend their trust in exchange for so little.

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Safe to say I've had my hands full for a while, everyone is doing extremely well though and the 2 baby boys have started to pass normal poops! Which I'm delighted about.

Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day, I will be going up to Walsall to collect Gus at 4 :) I cant wait to meet him!

Here's a few pigtures while I'm here 😅 Forrest and Silver only have another 6 days of quarantine before they can move into the piggy room with the others and get more space, which will be nice. Hopefully the smell of other piggies will be comforting for them and not upset them, they're still healing from the bites from their previous housemates! (You can even see some on poor Silvers face)

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Look whose home! He is absolutely gorgeous. He feels like quite a frail little old man, they did say he was probably an older boy. His feet are very dry after having bumblefoot and his impaction really is quite severe, his anal sac is huge. But he is incredibly sweet, seems to absolutely love cuddles.

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Eriathwen said:
So remember I said something was happening Friday? After a 260 mile round trip.. we now have little Forrest and Silver the lethal white babies. They are absolutely lovely, really quite confident and seem to be fairly well functioning for lethals. Theyre covered in bite wounds from the other males picking on them and their incisors aren't great, but could be way worse! They're able to eat very well by themselves luckily although they are both totally blind and deaf, with neurological issues as well.

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Oh how lovely that you’ve given them a forever home. I had the great pleasure of meeting two beautiful lethal girls at TEAS and was amazed by their zest for life. They are absolutely gorgeou 💙💙
 
Aw, welcome home Gus 💙 you are and very handsome boy. You have landed into a very caring and loving forever home, life is looking very sweet for you now x
 
Thankyou guys 🥲 from the short time I've spent with him hes already an absolutely lovely boy. I set him down for 5 seconds to grab a pair of gloves and he ran off! He had a great time running around the hallway 🤣 totally not what I was expecting as I was told he wasn't very active lol
I was extremely lucky and managed to grab a cancellation with my vet today for him just because I trust his opinion over a vet I don't know (the one the rspca had used) and arthritis, an old injury etc were ruled out for his lack of activity and bunny hopping when he runs. It's most likely due to having absolutely no muscle mass in his legs which was what I assumed, so hadn't started him on metacam but you've got to have them checked to be 100% sure, haven't you?!
Hes eating well and both he and Oliver seem very keen on each other through the bars which was totally unexpected. Seeing the others has made him a new pig compared to the one I had handed to me just yesterday, as he hadn't seen any other pigs for as long as anyone knows it may well be depression that caused the inactivity too! Poor guy.
He has already gained 40+g since yesterday, with lots of exercise, food and friends to incentivise him to get up and about, he should build muscle mass back up. I figured his ideal weight would be about 1200g which is the weight my vet advised he should be at so that was nice to know I was right 😅 for a kilo pig there's not much of him.

The 2 lethals have an appointment Friday to check their molars, hopefully get one of Silvers incisors trimmed, his left eye looked at and Forrests back legs checked. Silvers weird tooth has very healthy looking new growth so I'm hoping it won't be an ongoing issue with him, but we will see. Poor Forrests teeth are awful though poor boy.

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Black piggies said:
Aw welcome Gus, the happy times start now!
The lethal boys' teeth look awful, is that from not enough hay?
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I hope so, although they're renowned for having dental issues even with the best care. I dont think Forrests missing one at the bottom will ever grow, but I'm hoping his top ones improve with a proper diet but we will have to see :/
 
Hope so. Be good to see Forrest and Silver do better with the TLC they're getting now. Sad to think they can't see or hear and were getting bitten.
 
The lethal girls at TEAS had only a couple of incisors between them. They went for regular conscious filing with Simon Maddock. It’s sadly one of the problems which lethal piggies can have along with bone deformities, gut issues, blindness, deafness and neurological issue. Most don’t make it, a lot die shortly after being born 😞 so the ones that survive are very special little piggies with a will to live
 
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Depending on what's discovered with their molars I will probably have their dental work done at the Cat and Rabbit. I'm more than happy for my vet to deal with their incisors, but any molar work I'd rather avoid aneasthetic for them. But given how they're currently eating I'm hopefully their issues are only their incisors.
 
Eriathwen said:
Depending on what's discovered with their molars I will probably have their dental work done at the Cat and Rabbit. I'm more than happy for my vet to deal with their incisors, but any molar work I'd rather avoid aneasthetic for them. But given how they're currently eating I'm hopefully their issues are only their incisors.
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Aw, I do hope so! Incisors are generally pretty easy to deal with, molars on the other hand definitely need someone with expertise. They are absolutely gorgeous :wub:
 
Eriathwen said:
Good news for the boys! They went into the vet today, Silver had his top incisors burred and both had their molars checked, which are absolutely fine! I've been sat making these collages with Silver on me and hes fallen asleep on my shoulder 🤣🤣
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That's great news about the molars. How amazing to have such trust already to sleep on you. They're gorgeous boys :luv:
 
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