The Bradshaw Family

[Betsy]

It's natural to feel guilty but you really shouldn't you have your own lives to lead too. As you say you can't watch her, the dogs and the kids all at once.

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

It's natural to feel guilty but you really shouldn't you have your own lives to lead too. As you say you can't watch her, the dogs and the kids all at once.

When we spoke to the doctors they said her having episodes of acting 'child like' is all part of the Dementia. At least she is doing much better today. The ambulance service was extremely busy though, I called them when she fell as she hit her head and said her neck was hurting so she couldn't get up; plus there was quite a lot of blood. I was put on hold on the phone for 15 minutes and then the ambulance arrived an hour and a half later. She had to lay on the pavement with blankets for that long

Hope you and the piggies are well and coping with this heat we are having

 

[Merab]

Sorry to hear about your grandmother’s fall.
What a worry for you all.
Hope she’s feeling better now.
The day out looks lovely. Where did you go?

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Sorry to hear about your grandmother’s fall.
What a worry for you all.
Hope she’s feeling better now.
The day out looks lovely. Where did you go?

Thanks Heather.
We went to Southport. It was a last minute decision plus we only wanted an hour or so there, early morning, before it got to warm for Koda

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Stark is such a good looking pig. They all are but he's top of the looks pig. Lovely

He’s very pleased to hear that! He usually gets overlooked and doesn’t get as many compliments as the others! I just showed him your comment and he’s delighted

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

I'm glad he's happy about that. Can you get another? Photo of him please? He's my kinda pig.

Just had another look through and you have some really cool names for them. I also have a Rufus but he's a Rat

Thank you! We are huge Marvel and Supernatural fans here - hence the names!

Here’s a Stark spam for you (he had damaged ears when we rehomed him - he’s always been a scrapper )

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Sorry it turned out quite blurry. But on the left is Sky my old boar, he was 7 year old and passed away a few years ago now.

Pip is middle, he was 6 when he passed away about a year before sky, pip and sky didn't get on, so they had to be neighbours, it was sky rejecting pip, pip was gentle and loving whereas sky was like a miserable, posh boy, a bit like Mr darsy.

Dot I still have now and she's 5, she lives with Bernie my boar who you've seen on one of my threads. I tried to bond dot with sky( he came to me neutered) but sky done the same to her as he did with pip. And I couldn't bond dot with pip because pip wasn't neutered and wasn't healthy enough to be done. View attachment 178330

What a stunning picture! gorgeous. And beautiful memories too.

Pip really does remind me of Stark

I’m glad Dot is settled with a friend now. And I’m so sorry you lost your other guys, but they had such lovely long lives! Credit to you

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Thanks, Sky and Pip came from a lower school, where they were getting their cage kicked by naughty kids and only fed carrot then sometimes hay if anyone remembered. Then they use to get dragged home to anyone's house could be bothered to take them.

Amazingly they had perfect teeth, and were in good shape for neglected animals. My wife works at that school and she volunteered to bring them both home, we never let them go back, registered them up with a really good vet and completely changed the diet to a decent one.happily ever after from age 2 to yea both good ages. I'm sure sky could have gone to 8 or maybe even 9 but he got cancer at 7.

What a lovely home they had! I’m so glad you both rescued them from the school. Nothing worse than pets being kept in classrooms!
Sounds like you both did an amazing job and they had wonderful lives.
I wish the same could be said for all animals

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Banner and Stark are up for photos this morning….

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Banner is even cute on night cam!

 

[Merab]

Banner is always cute

 

[Betsy]

Banner is always cute

I think Banner may well fit in here with my lovely girlies! Plum Fairy alert!

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Schools out for summer!

The boys and girls are enjoying a well deserved break

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Piggy updates: everyone seems to be coping well with the warmer weather (thanks to summer hair cuts and a new air conditioning unit). Though they were not really feeling very photogenic this morning

Koda updates: Koda really isn’t a fan of summer (to be expected), so he’s doing lots of napping! But he loves his new cool mat. He’s also loving meeting up with my friend’s Husky and my brother’s Dachshund for play dates

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Can you stop showing me that top left pig . I'm in love and want him

Stark?

Yep… that’s Stark

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

How old be Sir Stark ? can you premote him to sir Stark please lol

He will be 2 this October I can promote him from Mr.Stark to Sir.Stark just for you!

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

I’m really missing our lovely Spanish boy this weekend. We lost him last year due to degenerative hind limb lameness (very common in Spanish horses due to conformation and early levels of schooling).
He was imported and actually kept entire till later in life. He was such a character. Very aloof, so a rare cuddle from him was a lovely treat. He rode so big for a little horse and had tons of character to match! He knew how to push boundaries and test rider limits, but once you got him on side he had so much to give!

We hope you are having fun up there our beautiful Barquero (Barki)

10 July 2021 - as you can see in video, I was always trying my best to force kisses and cuddles on him..

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Hay monsters this morning….

 

[Jill B]

Apologies to all the other piggies but Banner's my favourite!

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Apologies to all the other piggies but Banner's my favourite!

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Thor has joined in now, he wanted to be a hay monster too

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Stark all the way , and then back again, and then there again and then back again . Thankyou

he really does appreciate his number one GPF fan

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Koda….. I think you may have met your match there

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

I think the animals are having a lazy day today…..

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

“This is my fox toy…… my mum said I can’t chase the real ones that I can hear in the middle of the night….. so I have my own fluffy one that squeaks”

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

I have some very happy animals now that the weather is cooler. Happy horses, happy piggies and Koda has had an adventure after hiding at home from the heat all week

24 July 2021

24 July 2021

 

[Merab]

I think everyone and every animal is grateful for a drop in temperature

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

This boy can always cheer us up…..

We are trying to get him ready for farm life…

25 July 2021

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Koda is on antibiotics.

A couple of weeks ago he had a tick bite. It is still swollen so the vet has put him on antibiotics this morning. Last night I used a warm compress on it and it’s brought it down lots, so the vet has said to carry on with that.

He’s still his happy, bouncy self

 

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