Wasn't someone looking for some photos?

YvonneBlue said:
Lovely to see the boys. They look like they have filled out nicely, no more bony bottoms. Happy piggies who have trained their hooman well. :D
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It's the noise, like they realise if they make enough noise I'll give in before they upset the neighbours. And I will, let's be honest.

Feeding times these days are always started by seeing who can get their head furthest over the bars. That includes pellets. If they get pellets they get hand fed one each because they won't notice them tossed in the cage otherwise lol.
 
Bill & Ted said:
They are such characters, they always look like they are plotting something together 😆
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Ahaha. So between images 5 and 6, and I wish I'd caught it on camera, but Camowen turned to look at Bann and Bann promptly popcorned, all four feet in the air. He landed and that led to Camowen (in the 6th image) looking at Bann like, "...you good there, mate?" Bann's response was to eat more hay. 🤷‍♂️
 
When I think how unimpressed they were with me when they first arrived (food bribery started from the very beginning, lol), and compare it to now...when I say feeding involves them trying to get their heads as far over the bars as possible, it's hard to convey just how close they'll get to me. Practically nose to nose. Now, that's because there's food involved, but it still demonstrates a massive lack of worry about getting that close to my face.

They still hate my cold hands, though.
 
I'm getting too old for this.

Went in to put the goblins to bed and give them some pellets. Tossed a couple (literally) in Bann's direction which he was on to like a shot. Camowen's nowhere to be seen but one bed, with its roof flopped over because that's how the goblins roll, has a bunch of packing paper jammed up into the main doorway. This is Cam's thing. No idea why, but he does it, so I toss a couple (again, literally) and they land on the paper. Pellets make noise when they land on paper. And I wait.

And...I wait. Feels like forever, probably wasn't even a minute, but there's nothing from that bed. Even with the roof flopped down, if he moved you'd know. And there's nothing. So I say "Cam?" in that I'm-slightly-worried-but-not-letting-on voice we all have. Again, nothing. And as I put the pellet bag down, thinking I don't really want to lift that bed up, out somepig shoots from the side doorway, clearly not at all having been caught napping and not wanting to let on.

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How fat are those hippos lol?! What do they weigh now? That takes so much dedication and care and expense to supersize skinny pigs on a healthy diet like they have and get those healthy big fat bums, you must be Best Skinny Pig Dad Ever :)
 
Off the top of my head I can't remember, lol, just that their weights are holding steady despite Camowen's repeated attempts to scare me to death. They still don't like my cold hands but they'll happily get close to my face when begging for food and Camowen's decided he likes running over my foot, they don't bat an eyelid if I walk through the cage to open and close the window or the blinds.
That said the colder weather might be my problem. All well and good now, and I know I moved my PC and that upstairs so I could vape in a room with the window open and the door closed but it gets cold very easily and there's only so much I can do about it. That'll be my real test.

And as always, I'm grateful they love their hay and it works as food bribery. Whilst they would happily eat two heads of butterhead each a day there is no good reason I should indulge them in that, haha.
 
Gotta love the boar brains!
Theo had a hilarious moment earlier after I decided one of the middle floor fleece pieces was so damp I'd just swap the whole thing rather than poop scoop and add a pee pad.
Briefly, the correx base was exposed. Theo panicked and did a dramatic rendition of "Wheek help I am marooned on an island away from my girls, the floor is lava!". Wouldn't step on the correx. Ran back and forth along the edge of the fleece squealing for rescue.
Bless their little boar brains :)
 
I shall round off tonight with a short story.

So took the goblins some carrot each for bedtime. Camowen comes for his, gets bopped slightly on the nose with it and is a tad offended at this - but he came back and he got his carrot. Bann was in bed and didn't want to leave, so I 🤷‍♂️ (I seem to be doing that a lot, recently) and tossed it so it landed by the bed entrance and finally, Bann popped his head out and eventually, left the bed.

And walked right over it.

So he comes to the bars for his food which is now about 2ft behind him, and I sigh, and I go to retrieve it. As I'm doing this Bann sees Cam's share and goes over to try and pilfer it. This is not well received from Camowen. So right as I grab it and go to give it to him Bann freaks out and runs away again and ends up in the log tunnel. I go to give it to him in the log tunnel. He backs out and goes to run for the bars again.

Bann did eventually get his carrot, but sheesh. How can one pig complicate supper so much?
 
That’s lovely - I love the adventures of Cam and Bann and their devoted hooman slave 🥰
 
Honestly I should know better than to toss him his food - unless he sees it land, he'll come to the bars (eventually) for it. Or it's lettuce. He never does it with lettuce.
 
Just gave the goblins their last sampler (yes, they have eaten all the others - rye, oat, orchard, meadow). Gave them a couple of green beans first so I could get the sampler open in peace (and stabbed myself with a stapler for my troubles, lol) and put it down in the cage. Cam didn't care, because beans. Bann noticed, went to move towards it, got about a foot closer...then found himself another bean. Crau hay has nothing on beans, folks.
 
I thought I'd try something different tonight. Just had Goblin Bedtime, and put a few pellets into the palm of my hand. If I give them pellets one at a time they're happy with that but they're a tad suspicious of the open hand. Bann came over, I'd say he snatched one except there wasn't anything malicious about it, just grabbed it extremely fast. Camowen...sniffed at my hand. Sniffed over the pellets. Then tried eating my finger. :doh:

I didn't flinch, but Cam did, apparently he wasn't expecting to be eating a finger. But because he flinched he made Bann jump and then Bann jumping made Camowen jump. The rest of the pellets went into the hay pile.

I dunno, I still count this as a success. They got the pellets, I got to keep my fingers intact.
 
They’re jumpy wee critters alright, piggies! Love the hay pics - nuthin does your heart good like watching piggies happy at their hay 🥰
 
Ruth1 said:
They’re jumpy wee critters alright, piggies! Love the hay pics - nuthin does your heart good like watching piggies happy at their hay 🥰
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If they start shrieking for food because they think I've forgotten I fed them 10 minutes ago, I'll chuck in a pile of hay instead. It works 🤷‍♂️ I'm screwed if they ever go off it at this rate lol.
 
I currently have a 'situation' in the piggy room. My OH decided to give the skinnies a new mini carrot cottage this evening. Now I can't sleep for the noise of them bickering over it and chewing at it very loudly. I tried removing it from their cage but then they just shrieked until I gave it back.

My OH is of course fast asleep. 😴😴
 
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