[Gpdd] HEALTH: Handling; Fugly

[Algernon07 at aol.com]

Hi,
     How old is Fugly? Ebeneezer WoollyBear went totally ballistic when 
turned on his back. Great survival reflexes, that little piggy, only to be felled 
by an inoperable bladder stone. (weep)   But, Since first getting Chester and 
Charlie 3 years ago, the Ohio rescue piggies, I have held them on their back 
regularly (and gently) - first simply to verify gender and then because they 
were so little they didn't know they could protest.
     I played "piggy toe" and "piggie foots" games with their cute little 
paws and feet regularly. Sounds silly but they begame used to having paws and 
feet handled and so nail clipping was not the ordeal that it was with the 3 older 
Jolly Rodents.
     I've had some luck sitting a piggie on my lap to trim neail -- sor of 
like a teddy bear. 


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