Wiebke's Tribe: Sows and the City Boars

Oh Wiebke. I am ever SO sorry about the tough and heartbreaking time you’re having at the moment. Your heart must be hurting so bad with all these losses. I really am thinking of you. Make sure you take care of yourself xx
You truely are a credit to this forum, your ongoing support and advice is always appreciated by myself and everyone.
I hope you’re okay.
Sleep well beautiful piggums :hug::luv:
 
Hannah_xx said:
Oh Wiebke. I am ever SO sorry about the tough and heartbreaking time you’re having at the moment. Your heart must be hurting so bad with all these losses. I really am thinking of you. Make sure you take care of yourself xx
You truely are a credit to this forum, your ongoing support and advice is always appreciated by myself and everyone.
I hope you’re okay.
Sleep well beautiful piggums :hug::luv:
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I am OK, thanks. The rest of the grieving process will continue at its own pace; you can never hurry that on.

I have had an amazing 18 months of no losses and only very few medical issues with 27 piggies but I am now making up for it with a vengeance. With larger numbers you often veer from one extreme to the other; it is rarely neatly spaced out. All you can do is cherish the good times while they last and remind yourself that there will be better stretches again while you are going through a bad patch.

Anyway, I am currently busy piggy dating my three bereaved piggies (who won't go with any of the other two) and will report about my results in finding new companionship for Macsen (Hirael's 2 years old widower), Brathlys/Lissie (Alan's 3 years old widow) and 6 years old Teggy (who has lost both her younger companions Gareth and Meleri in just a month) once I have tried all possible options. It is not quite for the faint-hearted...
 
Wiebke said:
I am OK, thanks. The rest of grieving process will continue at its own pace; you can never hurry that on.

I have had an amazing 18 months of no losses and only very few medical issues with 27 piggies but I am now making up for it with a vengeance. With larger numbers you often veer from one extreme to the other; it is rare neatly spaced out.

Anyway, I am currently busy piggy dating my three bereaved piggies (who won't go with any of the other two) and will report about my results in finding new companionship for Macsen (Hirael's 2 years old widower), Brathlys/Lissie (Alan's 3 years old widow) and 6 years old Teggy (who has lost both her younger companions Gareth and Meleri in just a month).
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Good luck with the bonding, I hope it goes really well for them all x
 
You are really due some good luck so fingers crossed!

Whatever happens the piggies are safe in the knowledge you’ll make absolutely the best decisions for them.

Sounds like with a herd it’s never a dull moment! I hope things settle into an easier rhythm soon for you.
 
LucyP said:
You are really due some good luck so fingers crossed!

Whatever happens the piggies are safe in the knowledge you’ll make absolutely the best decisions for them.

Sounds like with a herd it’s never a dull moment! I hope things settle into an easier rhythm soon for you.
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You don't need to watch soaps when you have lots of piggies... You get all the drama for free!

Since exactly half of my current Tribe is officially elderly (11 out of 22 piggies are 5-8 years old and some of them are by now very frail), I expect more deaths before the year is over. But it is easier to say goodbye when you know that your oldies have had a decent life span. The hardest bit of the recent losses was that most were middle aged or even younger; they are always hardest to deal with emotionally.
 
What a time of it you've had @Wiebke, you're a trooper, thank you for all you do for us slaves as well as the piggies. Will be interested to see how all the bondings go :hug:
 
I'm sorry you are having a difficult time.i would like to thank you for giving so much support to the forum.its been invaluable for some of my piggies that are here and past.Especially when you are dealing with your own problems.I hope the bondings go well.:hug:
 
I've been feeling a bit like this meme here when @furryfriends (TEAS) turned up with five TEAS piggies for dating on her way to a family visit last Friday!
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However, some rounds of musical bonding chairs later, I am two-thirds there and with the last third likely taking me several weeks with no guarantees that it may come off.

Anyway, on my second attempt, Macsen (himself a TEAS adoptee named after Macsen Wledig, the last Roman Emperor on British soil, Magnus Maximus, from the Welsh Arthurian legends in the Mabinogion) did gel with very skittish mother Manon (old Welsh name meaning 'Queen'; was Lily) and her rescue born daughter Maelona 'Princess' (was Daisy), with a newly bereaved TEAS baby called Chestnut thrown in, which I have renamed Melangell 'Sweet Angel' after the 7th century Welsh patron saint for animals to keep the name theme going.
Manon was still too panicky when Macsen did push her a bit too much first time round.
Lily and Daisy had been reserved for me since late August but unfortunately suffered a pretty bad ringworm outbreak due to the neglect and horrendous conditions Lily had suffered. You can see how skinny she still is at the back end, despite two months in good care since giving birth to four babies.
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Teggy (another TEAS adoptee) failed to vibe with my first option but took one look at young Spike (who had himself not worked out with Brathlys/Lissie even though he was looking a bit similar to her Alan) and she was in LURVE. The heady excitement of having a sow submitting to him got a bit much for Spike (or rather his teenage gonads) but that's now settled down and the two are happily squishing up together in a hay corner. He obviously likes old girls...

Spike is now Tudur (the Welsh name that gave us the Tudor dynasty, which actually has Welsh roots in the male line); the name means something like 'People Power or People's King'.
Tudur has already been a forum piggy; this is his earlier story. He returned to TEAS after the death of his first old lady at the start of this month. Holly and Spike's Excellent Adventure @FlowerGirl
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All the testosterone fumes and pheromone output triggered little Maelona into a strong season, so I used that in my second attempt to bond her and her mother in with Macsen and Melangell (who had bonded with him straight away).

Brathlys and another newly bereaved neutered TEAS boar are a slow bonding that may take several weeks to work past Lissie's problems (fingers very firmly crossed - there is no guarantee). Lissie's moved into Teggy's apartment in the divided cage.
 
Sounds like it has been very busy in the Wiebke dating club! Lovely to see that some of the rescues have found some friends!
 
That's lovely Tudur looks so happy with Teggy after sadly losing Holly. He's from the same rescue situation as my boar Bertie, both lovely looking I think 😍
 
Wow, sounds like you have been so busy, glad things are going well in the bonding department x
 
Hello super wonderful @Wiebke
You are doing amazing and tho you must feel that you are not you are.
Let us be here for you as you frequently are for all on here.
Any piggie that come into your world wether it’s being kept at your home or tho medium are richer for that and piggie slaves I myself also are blessed with your knowledge
I mourn the loss of ones I have lost and that pain is because i care
Price that I will continue to carry because piggies are special ….. and so are you.
David x
 
David Piggie Lover said:
Hello super wonderful @Wiebke
You are doing amazing and tho you must feel that you are not you are.
Let us be here for you as you frequently are for all on here.
Any piggie that come into your world wether it’s being kept at your home or tho medium are richer for that and piggie slaves I myself also are blessed with your knowledge
I mourn the loss of ones I have lost and that pain is because i care
Price that I will continue to carry because piggies are special ….. and so are you.
David x
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Thank you!
 
Wiebke said:
Thank you.

I do have my safe places where I can rant and cry, or I would have never been able to stick it out here as a mod for so long. ;)
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Ok
Good to have them
One of mine is Leonard Cohen sorts me head out 1st then works on rest of me.
You can borrow him any time. Xx
 
Great that you found good matches! Really sounds a bit like a soap opera. ;)
Fingers crossed that everything will settle down peacefully during the next weeks/months.

I was just thinking the other day that my group looks really happy at the moment. After the difficult bonding with Odi more than a year ago and his tendency to show aggressive behaviour if something doesn't go his way (which really annoys Tessy) and the addition of little Vicky in May (which annoyed Bonny and Tessy) they seem to have really grown together now.
Hope it works out for your groups the same way!
 
I'd been planning to post about Gethin's 6th birthday around this time but it has sadly come otherwise.

My beloved gentle Gethin with his big heart sadly fell suddenly ill and coninuted to quickly deteriorate throughout the day last Friday. Since the vet's findings were not good when they kindly squeezed him as an emergency in at the end of a long day, we had to send him to Rainbow Bridge to join his much loved first set of wives, sisters Tesni and Ffwlbri (2011-18/19).

I adopted him from the RSPCA Walsall for Tegan but as she promptly dumped him, Gethin found great love and happiness with her mother Tesni for the last two years of her own 7 years of life and then later in the year found a new deep love with little baby Carys, which has endured for the last three years of his life. They have been joined by young Tegeirian after the first lockdown.
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I’m so sorry you had to say goodbye to beautiful Gethin. He had a wonderful life. He’ll be popcorning over the bridge to meet his wives again. Take care. ❤️
 
What a rollercoaster!
Bonding excitement and the sadness of losing Gethin.
I’m pleased the bonding have all settled. It definitely beats a soap opera!
I always loved seeing Gethin on the forum, such a handsome boy.
Look after yourself now after such a time of emotional swings. ❤️
 
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