More New Piggyfriends.

It has taken us a while to bring you up to date with our other new Piggyfriends. We need Slave's help to extract the camera card as it is too small and fiddly for our paws but she has been spending far too much time painting the outside of our house. Doesn't she realise that piggy announcements are far more important than painting? 

Anyway....here they are...

When Slave and her son were at Pooh Piglets rescue, they were putting Cobweb and Tamworth into their carrier to come home when Pauline said that she had two more boars needing a home. Slave always has an extra carrier in the car  "just in case" and it seldom comes home empty.

Pauline opened the hutch and they could see one piggy that Slave said looked just like our Caoimhe so out he came. He is the one on the right in the pigture. Then Pauline lifted out his brother, who is a Sheltie. 

As we said in our previous post, once Slave has picked up a piggy, they never go back into the hutch. These little boys are older than our other newbies but are not quite full grown.

After lots of cuddles and a free haircut for the Sheltie, they all came home.

This little fellow is the Sheltie and he has a nice brown stripe down the middle of his nose. Neither of them had names so Slave has called this one Benedict.

And here is the Caoimhe lookalike, whom she has named Dominic.

Here they are together. Slave thinks that our US readers will have another name for the Sheltie breed but she cannot remember what it is. Too much painting we say! He is like a Peruvian but his long hair grows back from his face instead of having a fringe. 

While we were typing this ( and it takes a long time with everypig trying to "help" ) she thought that the Shelties might be called Silkies in the US. Is that right? Maybe a reader will correct us.

As Pauline had several families waiting outside the piggy shed, she never got to hear their back story but they are safe now here at Piggyfriends and are eating everything in sight except for cucumber, which they ignore! More for the rest of the herd! Slave has lots of them growing in her greenhouse. Yum yum!

Welcome New Piggyfriends!

There are always a lot of wonderful piggies needing homes at Pooh Piglets Rescue in Haywards Heath, which is about a 45 minute drive from Piggyfriends.

Slave and her son went to see them last week and came home with these two little boars.

 

They are not related but Pauline, the lovely lady who runs this rescue, paired them up and when Slave and her son arrived, they were the first two that Pauline lifted out of their hutch and gave out one pig to each of them.

Having picked up a piggy, it is impossible to put him back ( according to Slave ) so these little guys came home with her.

Slave always takes a long time to choose names for us but she finally settled on Tamworth for the orange fellow on the left. Here he is again.

Slave told us that there is a breed of orange coloured farm pig called Tamworths. They are only babes but Tamworth is a couple of months older than......

.......Cobweb, the little white babe above. They are both what Slave calls "nearly Abbies" in that they have a few rosettes in their coats but not as many as a true Abby.

They are still a little nervous coming to a strange new home but Cobweb behaved better for our little photoshoot than Tamworth. See the outtake below......

If you would like to see two more additions to the Piggyfriend herd, watch this space!

And don't forget. If you live in the SE of England and have room for more piggies, give Pooh Piglets a call. You can read about the rescue on their Facebook page where you will find the phone number.

Happy May Day!

Hello Readers.

It is May Day today and I was supposed to be the Piggyfriends May Queen. Spring has been very late this year in England and Slave could not find any may flowers to make me a crown.

There are some tight buds on the may in our hedge but it will need a lot of sun to make them open. So she looked around the garden for some other flowers. There are many flowers out there like daffodils, hyacinths and bluebells but Slave told me that most flowers from bulbs are toxic so she picked these forget me nots for me just in case I decided to take a nibble.

Not quite what I was expecting but at least I had my photo taken. Perhaps I should say " Happy Forget Me Not Day" instead.

Lovely Rita Has a New Easter Bonnet!

Our favourite guinea pig fashion icon, Lovely Rita, has a new Easter bonnet!  Doesn't she look beautiful?  She is here representing the Prairie Pigs, to wish all of our friends far and wide a very happy Easter.

We can still see a lot of snow on the ground outside the piggy room window, but all the more reason for a piggy to supply her own colour by wearing a bonnet festooned with flowers!  At long last, the sun is beginning to feel stronger and we are looking forward to seeing the snow and ice melt so the grass (yum yum) can start to grow again.  Spring always comes along eventually, though sometimes she does seem to be taking her own sweet time... 

 

Happy Easter from the Piggyfriends.

Hello Readers. Caoimhe Piggyfriend here. I am not going to eat that chocolate egg so Slave has given me this nice grass. I am not sure whether that is to keep me from running off or because I am a good girl and am sitting still for the photo.

We all want to wish everyone a Happy Easter.

Slave does not like bunnies in the garden as they sneak in and eat our veggies but these toy ones seem quite safe to me. They are not even stealing my grass.

Wishing Everyone a Happy Easter !

Coke here! I am so excited about Easter, and I was very good when my mom wanted to take this photo of me. Two new bunny friends agreed to join me, and a book also appeared. My mom says reading is very important.

I wonder if there are any goodies in the bag? Do you think I should look?

Happy Easter to all!

Welcoming Spring

Here in Saskatchewan, where the Prairie Pigs live, it does not look too much like Spring yet, but the calendar says it starts today so we are hoping that Mother Nature has gotten the memo and will get a move on!  I am Arthur Pendragon and I am wearing my daisy costume to wish all the piggies and piggy people out there a happy first day of Spring.  Sunshine!  Flowers blooming!  Bees buzzing! We are looking forward to it all, and especially all those tender and tasty green shoots we will be nibbling on soon! 

 

The Piggyfriends live in England, where spring comes a bit earlier than in Canada. We have had a few sunny days, although it was very wet today and our Slave took this photo of some crocus in the garden when the sun was shining. There is even a little bumblebee in one of the flowers. Can you see him?