When we posted pigtures of Alpacas the other week, Pat and the Prairie Pigs commented about the pigtures of Fuzzypeg before and after, which we shared with the readers of the GPDD at the time.
Some of you reading this now might not have seen these so we thought that we would show them again.
Fuzzypeg came to us from a home where the slave did not know how to care for long haired piggies. He came with Gandalf, whom you will have seen on this blog and he is a Coronet and was not in such bad shape as Fuzzypeg. He just needed a haircut round the back and had his nails clipped
Fuzzypeg's coat was totally matted and full of bits of hay so a lot had to be removed. As Pat said, there was enough taken off to knit a couple of guinea pigs.
Here you can see a whole bagful of surplus hair - as big again as Fuzzypeg himself.
Then he had a shampoo and had his curly nails cut. Here he is drying off.
And here he is enjoying a snack after all that pampering. As you can see he still has some of his curly coat left but minus the mats and tangles.
Moral of this tale is that if you own a long haired piggy, keep up with the hairdressing. Of course, if you are reading this blog, you already know that!
