Rex piggies at Piggyfriends

We have been trawling the archives for pigtures of our Rex piggies past and present and would like to present a selection. Our Slave takes hundreds of pigtures and it has been a mammoth task to pick just a few of our friends.

Here are brothers Raffles and Rolo. When he got older Raffles' hair grew a bit longer so there may have been some Texel in their ancestry.

Next is our Daisy, who was a typical Rex and grew to be a large lady and was President of the LAPS club on the GPDD ( Large Ample Piggies Society ). She weighed over 3lbs in her prime. She also had a crest so qualifies in both sections.

Then we have Mayflower, one of four sisters born to rescued Ginger but the only one to have a Rex coat.

Here are sisters Crystal and Toffee.

And Polo ( Agent Minty ) demonstrating his allegiance to Slave's flag on St. Patrick's Day.

We can't leave out our dear Roscoe, Daisy's brother. Here he is sharing his 5th. birthday feast on the lawn with his best friend, Shadow.

And lastly, our two fat ladies, Agents 88, Sally and Susie, who are sisters.

These are not the only Rexes who have found their way to Piggyfriends but we don't want to monopolise the blog. Now, dear readers, please send us your pigtures of your Rex or US Teddy piggies. We want to see them all.

Another smooth coated piggy

Agent Confetti here.  I'm late to the party, but if I count as a smooth-haired gp (I am also a crested), here is my photo.  As always, I am at your service.

I am 6!

Hello everypig and every Slave. Dorian Piggyfriend here ( aka Agent Silver Streak retired ).

It is my birthday and I am 6!

Instead of birthday candles, I have 6 cucumbers! Don't worry, I am not going to eat them all myself. I will share them with the rest of the Piggyfriends, two of whom you can just see behind me in the photo. Susie is watching me from the front of her pen and Rafferty is asleep in the corner of his. I expect that Susie wants my lettuce as this is her favourite veggie.

Observant readers will notice that my cucumbers still have their wrappers and if I were to nibble the plastic film it would be dangerous so I suspect that is why Slave gave me this lettuce to keep me away from it whilst she took my photo. She didn't want to unwrap all the cucumbers at once as they will keep better when wrapped up. Not that they need to keep long with all these hungry piggies.

I have been a Piggyfriend since I was a tiny piglet and I don't remember any other life. Now I have piglets living next door as the Dangermice ( Casper and Cosmo ) are in the next pen and they are growing fast. They will soon be as big as me as I am not a large piggy. I have a touch of arthritis in my back legs but Slave gives me Potter's Tabritis and this helps a lot. For any Slaves trying to buy this for their piggies, the name has changed to Potter's Joint Pain Relief. My Slave had trouble buying this recently but Mr. Slave found some in a tiny herbal shop in a nearby town. I don't know why it should be hard to find as it is so good. Half a tablet a day keeps me going and it is yummy too.

You might like to see an out-take. Here it is. Slave didn't need to take 10 photos when she chose the first one anyway! I got bored and wandered off to talk to Rafferty.

US Teddies and Rexes

Our next type of piggie coats, will actually be two types of hair that are very similar. I was lucky enough to own both of this type, so I can show you.

I had and have both Rexes and US Teddies, at first hand it seems there is not a big difference between the two types, but there are some distinct differences.
Rexes have a curly belly, their whiskers are not straight but curly and their fur is usually a lot more coarse then that of a US teddy.
US teddies in comparison have no curly hair on their bellies, their whiskers are straight and their fur is really soft.

Both types have hair that stands out and is slightly curly, if it would grow longer (as is the case with Tessels) they would have nice curls. Both seem to have pretty dense coats, and in my experience they are more prone to having dry skin and fur problems like a fungal infection.

Usually both can get pretty big compared to piggies with other hair types, our current US Teddy Roos for example is at least 2 cm longer then the rest and in general she is just big (without seeming fat). Of course there are always exceptions our Woopy (first pigture below) was always very petite and never weighed at lot more than 1 kilo.

Woopy, a Rex piggy

Daisy, a US Teddy

Woopy's nose,
here you can see her slightly curled whiskers

Chico, in this pigture you can see fairly well that his whiskers
are straight, which makes him a US teddy

Lotje, our first Rex sow, she had the cutest curly belly

I will find a pigture of our US teddies Lily and Roos, I haven't been able to either upload a pigture of them (at the moment) or I just can't find a pigture that does them justice. I will post them soon, when I do manage to upload and find proper pigtures!

Btw, if you still have smooth-haired piggies to enter, go ahead and send them in! 

Also if you want to suggest another type, do so in the comments.

Mieke

Another smooth-haired piggy!

Meet our sleeping beauty Tyson Stanley, he is now the ruling boar of the Gekke Flappies household and has no less then 2 gorgeous sows.
That he even has the time to take a nap...

If you also have a smooth-haired piggy that would like to be in our card game, please keep sending them in! We will soon start a new type of hair/coat...

Friday video: Trash cat

Smooth-coated Piggies, Agent Schilling and Agent Peanut

Slave keeps looking at the blog and admiring all the other cute agents, but she hasn't sent in our pictures as part of the smooth-coated crew.  Bad slave!  Here we are, with our shiny smooth coats.  High-five (well, high-four!) to all our other agent buddies!

​Agent Schilling offers "Kisses for carrots!"

​Agent Peanut sewing a new cuddle cup.

​"It's all fun and games 'til the fireworks start!"

~Agent Schilling and Agent Peanut