[Gpdd] ANNOUNCEMENT: new piggies in our house

[Ginger Fitzsimmons]

We have new pigs!

Two young adult boars (2 years old is young adult, yes?) have joined 
our household. Their names are Clover and Butterscotch, not names we 
would have chosen for them but they do seem to know them so I guess 
we'll keep them for now. Clover is black and roan and white and has 
sort of wiry fur. His brother Butterscotch is tawny and white and his 
fur is American with some extra length at the back of his head and his 
rump. Butterscotch's fur was matted under the rump hairs and I'm having 
to cut clumps out. He's not pleased with this but if I keep the 
butchering brief he lets me get away with it. He doesn't seem to mind 
being brushed, which should make it possible to avoid more mats once 
these are out, I think. They both need pedicures and grease spot 
cleanings but otherwise seem to be in decent health. Their pigtures are 
at the bottom of my homepage for now. 
(http://home.earthlink.net/~matildalucet/)

They were quite scared of us when they first moved in a wheek ago. 
Their last home had a 3 year old who couldn't seem to learn to leave 
them alone. It took a few days for the boys to figure out we weren't 
more of the same. They have now decided that I am housekeeping and room 
service and that I probably don't mean them harm when I try to snuggle, 
though they still aren't too enthusiastic about that. They had been 
bedded on cedar and fed alfalfa hay; we switched them to aspen and 
towels with no complaints and feed them Oxbow timothy hay which they 
decidedly approve of. They also approve of the institution of Salad 
Time. :-)

-ginger slave
with Steve Slave, formerly part of the Niles Cougar contigent