Rain, rain go away. Little piggies want to play!

Oh this horrid weather. April showers are not good for little piggies. Little piggies want to be out in the garden where they can all be together to play. Our current situation is that Ruby & Sparkle live together, Gary & Robbie live next door and little Pepper is living alone until her mate comes home to us. If we try to put them together inside they fight a lot and it upsets everyone. Out in the garden they have room to roam free and to hide and escape each other more easily and, as it is no one's 'territory' they seem more content to share pigloo hidey-holes and tunnels.
We created them a run in our garden using two sets of an outdoor runs and joining them together. We had no grass at all so we did have to buy some turf and let it settle. Then we added some tunnels, some pigloos and some netting over the top to make them feel secure. They love being out there together but we need some sunshine now. Come on rain, go away, little piggies need to play!

Cosy spoilt piggies?

CandE Cosie Cool Britannia Snuggle Sack

 

 So are the baby piggies spoilt? I ordered them some snuggle sacks from a company I found on ebay. Miss Olivia had used them before and her piggies were very happy with their purchases. http://www.candecosies.co.uk/
Robbie and Gary are now the proud owners of two Cool Britainia snuggle sacks - a double size to share if they want and a single one too. This was the perfect choice of fabric for two piggies named after British music icons!
Do the piggies like them? I think a picture speaks a thousand words. Here they are in their snuggle sacks, my happy little piggies! Keep snoozing babies.

 

Gorgeous Gary

My sleepy Robbie

Making a piggie home

We built a double piggie home. After looking all over the internet we decided on using the C&C method - cubes and correx. The cubes came from ebay and were tie-wrapped together and the correx came from a local printer and was cut to size to form the base.
We made a 4x2 size cage in black for Ruby and Sparkle to live in and then added a 3X2 cage in white on the left of the picture for baby Gary and Robbie and we added a 2X1 loft to it. We are rather impressed with the space it gives them all and they can see each other but I think as we may opt to try fleece liners and reduce the sides of the correx so they can see more of each other in the future. I would like to think that in the future all four could live in the same space without fighting but I am not sure if this will be possible. Watch this space piggie fans.

The Easter Piggie

So while my children were 'blogging' today and I was at work, did the Easter bunny visit? Well, there was lots of chocolate in the house when I got home and then a little Easter piggie arrived! Her name is Pepper and she belonged to a friend but she is lonely and in need of some friends. I am hoping that she has come to the right house with four little piggies here already. We plan to get her a male mate to be her partner at the end of the month making half a dozen pigs in total. There will soon be more piggies than people in the house!

Happy Easter!!!!!!!

Wheeb, Wheeb, Wheeb, Wheeb. All four piggies say "hello and happy Easter."
 Unfortunately none of the piggies got Easter eggs, though personally I don't think they need one seeing as Ruby and  Sparkle are already so chubby. (It must be all the veggies).
Gary and Robbie are doing fine and were desperate for veggie time this morning. Gary and Robbie love there new 3x2 c&c cage with 1x2 loft. Have had to chase them down numerous times in the morning as there is no access to food and water, resulting in a couple of nips from an angry and agitated Robbie!
 Miss Olivia has had ruby and Sparkle for 2 months.
Back on the subject of cages, for some reason Gary and Robbie  can get up to the loft but not down. Anyone got any tips?

It all started with a hamster

So, how did a piggy blog start with a hamster? Miss Olivia had a lovely hamster called Thunder but he died. She was so sad and couldn't cope with the loss of her pet and the possibility that she would have to endure this loss again so soon. She wanted a new pet. She wanted a rabbit! I persuaded her that rabbits were not the best pets for small children and that a pair of guinea pigs or piggies as we call them would be better. She eventually agreed and on February the 20th she adopted a mother and her baby from our local RSPCA centre and called them Ruby and Sparkle.
We had experience with piggies and had an old lady piggie called Bella whom we had adopted five years before from a friend who could no longer take care of her. She was a lonely piggie so we hoped that they could all be friends.
Hubby built us a run in the garden by laying turf and using a small animal pen but the three lady piggies could not be friends. We divided the run in half and kept Bella on one side and Ruby and Sparkle on the other. This seemed to work well.
In April it was my birthday. By then I had fallen in love with Miss Olivia's piggies and all I wanted for my birthday was a pair of my own piggies. Thus Gary and Robbie (more lady piggies) joined us on that day but sadly Bella left us on that day. She died very suddenly in the evening just before we brought Gary and Robbie home. :-(
So now we have four little piggies who live under Miss Olivia's bed in a custom built cage. We love the piggies and have joked that we now need a piggie room. Oldest son Daniel is at university - would it be wrong to turn his room into a piggie room????? Now Miss Erin wants to adopt a pair. Maybe we will need that piggie room after all..............

Little Thunder R.I.P. little one