[Gpdd] MISC - LAPS piggie in training!

[Suzy Dunser]

Rocky and Cocoa are just about 6 months old now (August 1st is their  
"official," but not necessarily exactly accurate birthday), and I  
just weighed Cocoa - 1280g! That's 2.8 lbs! Honestly, I thought he  
was going to make it eventually, and yes, he is, um, cuddly, but I  
didn't realise he was that close already! At what age do piggies  
reach their full size??

In other news, they are both much calmer now when they're being held  
- today the girls (my daughters, 6 and 8 yrs old) were holding them  
and petting them with a bowl of grass and leaves between them, and  
the piggies happily munched away even while they were being petted.  
Apparently all is good in the presence of leaves...

One thing I wonder about is that I can often see a white rim around  
their eyes (part of their eyeball), but they don't seem upset in any  
other way (ie, they don't make any noises or try to hide, and they  
keep eating) - is it normal to see this when they're not upset??

I took some pigtures of them with the girls, so you can see what they  
look like these days:

http://web.mac.com/tom_dunser/iWeb/Suzy/Rocky%20and%20Cocoa%2028% 
20July.html

Also, you can see what I mean about the eyes in the first shot of  
Cocoa alone, so please let me know what you think about that.

Cheers,
Suzy, Rocky, and Cocoa