New Owner Of Young Boar - Should I Get Him A Friend Now Or After Puberty?

Ohhhhh yes he's nice too! :love: you could name one either Porkchop or Hamlet and the other one of your husbands names?
 
Oh look at that lovely agouti boy :luv::luv::luv::luv:
 
Lil guy is still skittish, but eats from my hand most the time I offer (especially if I have peppers :D)...but heaven forbid I move slightly, make noise, or make eye contact. :mal: Doing my best to "speak piggie" with body language and have dutifully read the appropriate stickies...so far he still hates me. Got a lil purr earlier though and he wheeked a bit when he heard me rustling the hay bag. So, progress!:nod::yahoo:

Got him set up in the Midwest cage. I already hate it, but he seems to be (relatively) enjoying himself. Cats got to see him for the first time, and of course he couldn't care less about them. :doh: :lol!:

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Gonna put in an order for grids tonight I think. Should be less flimsy than this hunk o junk, and much more cat proof. :td:
 
alsebastian said:
I love the color and how silky the fur looks. :like:
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He is SUUUUUPER soft. :love: I even got to pet that silky lil butt for a whole 3.5 seconds a bit ago. He just got extra happy all of a sudden...popcorning, wheeking, zoomies...idk what happened but he's loving life right now I guess! :yahoo:
 
StarSapphire22 said:
Lil guy is still skittish, but eats from my hand most the time I offer (especially if I have peppers :D)...but heaven forbid I move slightly, make noise, or make eye contact. :mal: Doing my best to "speak piggie" with body language and have dutifully read the appropriate stickies...so far he still hates me. Got a lil purr earlier though and he wheeked a bit when he heard me rustling the hay bag. So, progress!:nod::yahoo:

Got him set up in the Midwest cage. I already hate it, but he seems to be (relatively) enjoying himself. Cats got to see him for the first time, and of course he couldn't care less about them. :doh: :lol!:

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Gonna put in an order for grids tonight I think. Should be less flimsy than this hunk o junk, and much more cat proof. :td:
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Please don't think he hates you! I can assure you he is only scared and it is something all piggy owners go through. My Mo hid from me for a whole week and even after 3 weeks it was difficult to stroke him but now he gives me kisses and everything. Good things come to those who wait ;)
 
Jesse's pigs said:
Please don't think he hates you! I can assure you he is only scared and it is something all piggy owners go through. My Mo hid from me for a whole week and even after 3 weeks it was difficult to stroke him but now he gives me kisses and everything. Good things come to those who wait ;)
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Oh yes, I know! I'm already seeing progress, and I'm hoping getting a friend will help some too. :nod:He seemed much happier and outgoing this evening after settling into his big cage a bit, and seems to enjoy the cats' presence (it's almost like he thinks they are his herd, its very strange!).

One thing I'm concerned about is since this midwest cage is requiring near constant kitty supervision on our part, we decided to keep him in the smaller habitat while we're sleeping/if we're gone (not often, I work at home), for his safety. The picking him up thing stresses him out. How can I make that better for him for the next few days while we wait on our grids to arrive?
 
StarSapphire22 said:
Oh yes, I know! I'm already seeing progress, and I'm hoping getting a friend will help some too. :nod:He seemed much happier and outgoing this evening after settling into his big cage a bit, and seems to enjoy the cats' presence (it's almost like he thinks they are his herd, its very strange!).

One thing I'm concerned about is since this midwest cage is requiring near constant kitty supervision on our part, we decided to keep him in the smaller habitat while we're sleeping/if we're gone (not often, I work at home), for his safety. The picking him up thing stresses him out. How can I make that better for him for the next few days while we wait on our grids to arrive?
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@sport_billy?
 
This will help with picking him up, takes stress out for them and you

 
We have 2 hides for him, one has only one entrance but he absolutely refuses to use it. The other one is a tunnel, which he looooves, but it has three holes. :/

What we've been doing is picking him up with our hands and putting him in the little cardboard carrier we brought him home in.
 
Ok, so our grids are out for delivery! We're going to assemble them tonight, and then just stick the Midwest cage inside until the sign shops open on Monday and we can get coroplast (extra catproofing lol). But we're going to try and adopt a boar on monday or tuesday...it'll be a 2x4 cage, can/should I divide it down the middle (two 2x2s) for them to meet through the bars for a few days (without our current boar having lived in it all set up yet) before introducing?
 
StarSapphire22 said:
Ok, so our grids are out for delivery! We're going to assemble them tonight, and then just stick the Midwest cage inside until the sign shops open on Monday and we can get coroplast (extra catproofing lol). But we're going to try and adopt a boar on monday or tuesday...it'll be a 2x4 cage, can/should I divide it down the middle (two 2x2s) for them to meet through the bars for a few days (without our current boar having lived in it all set up yet) before introducing?
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Just bumping this for the last question?

We decided to put off adopting/changing environments for a bit because we thought our (still unnamed) little guy might have the beginnings of mites or fungal, but it's looking like a false alarm. Giving it a few more days to be sure, but we're going to start working on assembling tonight and hopefully we'll be able to move him over/get a friend soon!
 
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