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"No we don't need double glazing, thanks!" - Willow answers the door :xd:

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Nice try at hide and seek, guys, but I can still see Willow behind the chaos of fluff that is Marble :))

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Using info from another thread here I made this carrot holder - cue much popcorning in delight followed by a swift plan to destroy it :woot:

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Willow has worked out how to use the ramp, but only when I put the wood bridge down (the green canvas is a bit slippy). This is as far as Marble's got... she can see Willow but can't quite work out how to get to her! Either that or severe vertigo (vert-pig-o?)!

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Love the carrot holder! Oh my word, Marble...I can imagine brushing her and several miscellaneous objects flying out from their hiding place.
Now, I often dream of being so tiny that I could ride a piggy. Especially a fluffy one. It'd be disasterous if they got an itch though:P
 
Tiny said:
"No we don't need double glazing, thanks!" - Willow answers the door :xd:

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Nice try at hide and seek, guys, but I can still see Willow behind the chaos of fluff that is Marble :))

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Using info from another thread here I made this carrot holder - cue much popcorning in delight followed by a swift plan to destroy it :woot:

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Willow has worked out how to use the ramp, but only when I put the wood bridge down (the green canvas is a bit slippy). This is as far as Marble's got... she can see Willow but can't quite work out how to get to her! Either that or severe vertigo (vert-pig-o?)!

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My girls had trouble with the canvas also so I took the canvas off and I wrap the ramp in flannel fabric.. It works much better for them while still protecting the feet. 20161029_115529.webp
 
All tuckered out after a hard day eating and playing! Marble still hasn't discovered this area yet so I think Willow thinks it's her bedroom!

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I've been fangirling them and taking snaps through the bars so they seem quite relaxed for me to be so close. They're skittish but love their food. On top of their hay and nuggets so far they've had little bits of kiwi, orange pepper, celery, carrot and broccoli stalk. Not so keen on pepper but go nuts over celery!

Willow doesn't like the sound of keys, have had proper disproving grumbles from that. Marble is a bit shyer with me so far, but with each other they seem quite evenly matched - though I can't wait til Marble discovers the land of EVEN MORE HAY over the ramp :))
 
Marble has discovered how to get over the ramp! I'm glad because when my fleece cage liners etc come, that area will be a kitchen with a hay tray.

Willow is a bit bolder at the mo, and has taken food that I've held out (not from my palm tho yet). Marble is happy to mooch around with me close but is currently more wary of limbs! She likes to take food that Willow is eating (typical child thing, if she's got it, I want it!), but Willow is incredibly chilled about it - she's like 'OK, have that celery, I'll just get some more' :whistle:
 
Oh they are so beautiful. i am getting two boars from a local rescue very soon. so excited!

Where d you buy their lovely looking hay from?
 
Beautiful photos! They're very pretty girls :luv:
I'm loving your creativity with the cardboard accessories & the log roll has made the ramps a doddle to get over.
Very lucky piggies to have such a nice home :)
 
Marble's the double of one of my boys Bubble. Gorgeous piggies

Love the carrot holder...........goes off in search of scissors and cardboard..........
 
flowerfairy said:
Oh they are so beautiful. i am getting two boars from a local rescue very soon. so excited!

Where d you buy their lovely looking hay from?
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The hay is just Pets At Home Timothy Hay, nothing special but they seem to love it!

3Tyger said:
Beautiful photos! They're very pretty girls :luv:
I'm loving your creativity with the cardboard accessories & the log roll has made the ramps a doddle to get over.
Very lucky piggies to have such a nice home :)
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Posyrose said:
Marble's the double of one of my boys Bubble. Gorgeous piggies

Love the carrot holder...........goes off in search of scissors and cardboard..........
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I got the carrot holder idea from a DIY thread on here but can't for the life of me remember where. Log rolls are from Poundland, I'll be stocking up! The makeshift cardboard hidey has now been replaced by the infamous Carrot Cottage I'd read so much about on here... we'll see how long that lasts :))
 
TheCavySlave said:
Hey, we have that cardboard tube with the treats in! What do your pigs think of it?
Also, that mid-popcorn picture is just so perfect:love:
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They love the tube! Marble is particularly smitten with the Carrot Cottage and and gnawing it from the inside :D

I had to post the popcorn pic, I think it's hilarious :))
 
It's really interesting watching them settling in and seeing their different personalities emerge - Willow is more trusting and I think she's twigged the human = likely food link. She is also quite fearless around the cage - she took to the ramps quite quickly, while it took Marble a fair bit of watching Willow and tentatively testing, but a day later she'd mastered it. Similarly, the Carrot Cottage only went in last night and Willow's already been on the roof! I really wasn't expecting that as they're still babies and I thought it'd be too high, but although they're almost exactly the same weight, Willow's a bit longer so I guess she's got that 'height'. That's the power of the carrot roof I imagine :))

Marble has shown a bit of dominance behaviour, the taking of food from Willow's mouth I already mentioned, but she's also rumblestrutting, which is hilarious as a) this tiny ball of fluff is deadly serious about this and b) Willow's just not bothered! Then 2 minutes later they're snuggling up :)
 
Awwwwwwwwww :love: :drool: Love your two little ones
 
Mummy did some sympathy shopping after my traumatic trip to the vets and we now have this sofa! It's much appreciated in this cold weather and mummy thinks our pad looks better than ours. We don't like the squeak the leather on her sofa makes so are inclined to agree! She could install our own fridge, we're not comfortable with sharing our food space with hoomans, really.IMG_2216.webp

Marble here! This new sofa is great; it helps with my yoga stretches. Healthy body, healthy mind and all that! I also try to stay supple so I can cheekily steal food from Willow when she's eating it. Mummy says she gives us exactly the same, and yes, it does look the same but Willow's might be better!
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Marble here! Willow's had her abscess removed and she's been getting lots of love from mum which I'm a bit jealous of but she also came back with a horrendous haircut (don't tell her I think this, I told her she looked fab!) which I'm not jealous of cos no one's gonna cut my hair - I mean, look how fabulous it is! (Don't let mum's silly onesie distract you, sometimes these humans have no sense of style - unlike me!)
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"Mum, it's MY leaf, I've got my paw on it to stop you taking it!"
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Hi, Willow here! Excuse the mess, mum's going to help us redecorate later (we've got furniture coming from Ziggy's Piggies, which must be good if a human's name rhymes with ours!). Mum gave us this pepper filled with goodies this morning, I've tasked Marble with investigating the contents while I devour the tablecloth.
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Celery, greens... and I detect some sprout going on here!
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Mum knows how much I like eating entrees on the terrace!
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Wow, what lucky piggies, they've really got some lovely stuff! And are very cute indeed!
 
Dear Willow and Marble,
We think your cage is sublime! We like the pepper filled with goodies idea- we'll get onto our humans about that. Sometimes one of us thinks the other has a particularly tasty piece of food, so we have to steal it from his mouth. You can never be sure!
 
Dear Godfrey and Duncan,
The pepper idea is great except our human didn't realise we don't like peppers today. She thinks that because we loved them last week we'd like them today. Silly human - that was last week! As an ongoing measure, we're planning on alternately loving and hating any offered foodstuffs without notice as it's important to keep the slaves on their toes; can't have them being complacent!

Also, we redecorated (obviously we made the human get the furnishings but it was all our work mostly).

Initially the tube was loose but one of us hogged it and the other was scared of it (we don't want to say who as we're both actually really brave) so mum put it through the divider and it suddenly became amazing fun! We've also worked out between us that we can go through it AND on top and leap to and from the roof of the carrot cottage which impresses our mum cos we look like little ninjas :bal:
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