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Post by Bean on Apr 21, 2016 20:55:19 GMT
Mounds of hay are the best for furry fun! Holly sounds like such a brilliant bun, I'd love to meet her and see her wrapping you round her little paw! Never mind Bean honey, did you have desperate urges for certain foods? My only real craving was for meat. Odd, as I'd been vegetarian for years and was very happy about it (I didn't have any desire to eat meat and the smell of it cooking was always really unappealing to me). I tried eating more protein at first, but still dreamed of chicken, so in the end I gave up and ate it and thoroughly enjoyed it! I've not managed to go back to being veggie although we don't eat much meat. I think someday I will phase it out, but when the time's right - at the moment I enjoy eating meat now and again and don't want to do it if I feel I'm depriving myself!
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Post by 3piggles on Apr 22, 2016 13:04:30 GMT
I never found my piggies to be manic munchers, but they also didn't get outside on a regular basis, so it was always a bit of a new experience. Living in a condo with common lawn areas, there were far more good grazing days when either the lawn machines were being used or the lawns were being treated with something, and the piggies couldn't be on the grass. Once I get a run set up for them at the new house, I'll see if they are manic munchers Ah, I thought, with the cat door, they could access the outside any time they wanted. I can understand not wanting them to be outside where they'd be vulnerable to predators, when you're not around to intervene. I also think weather makes a big difference in the amount of time they can be outside. We have problems with too much cold and too much heat. When we have the heat, we also have an endless supply of biting, blood sucking bugs. The weather in the UK is so much milder than ours, and the biting bugs don't seem to be an issue. Here, summer means bug spray to keep the little biting menaces at bay! Unfortunately, the parts of the US with few enough biting bugs to live outside are also the parts that get hellishly hot in the summer, and are prone to tornadoes, earthquakes, etc. I couldn't manage pork, when I was pregnant. We had been given the chest freezer as a wedding present, and had gotten a lot of pork roasts, chops, etc., from a butcher, just before I got pregnant. As soon as the pork cooked enough to start smelling good, it made my sick to my stomach! I didn't have any strange food cravings, and I didn't have any nesting drive, though since I was off work for some medical problems, I did a lot of general cleaning to fight the boredom. Had I been able to continue working, I wouldn't have changed my habits at all.
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Post by Bean on Apr 22, 2016 16:10:43 GMT
They do have permanent access to the run through the cat flap, just the run that's on paving (and fixed to their hutch) rather than the one that moves around on the grass. They're often most active in the early hours, before I've got up, so it's good to know they don't have to wait for me to get up! They don't like wet, windy weather, but cold doesn't bother them at all - they're always out in it.
We did have a plan to attach their permanent run to the other run (which gets moved about as the animals mow each rectangle of grass to the roots!) with a tunnel, one that we could close up at night, or when the pigs were taking a turn. But the systems to do it properly and securely are pretty expensive. So for now we just move them in for a bit of a graze and a play somewhere different on nice days, and then back pop them back again.
Most rabbits don't really like being picked up, so to move them I put some fresh grass in the carrier and put that in their run - they hop in and I move them over to the grassy run. Same thing going back (although I might have to change my bait if they have bellies full of grass!) - most of them get used to the routine really quickly and much prefer it to being picked up and carried.
How funny you went off pork! I remember my stomach being turned by the smell of oily foods cooking. I'd just bought a deep fat fryer to practise my Indian starters and went right off that idea until after I'd got being pregnant out of the way!
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Post by jolovespiggies on Apr 23, 2016 20:10:37 GMT
Thank yu Bean love, yes Holly is a super bun. A little off us at the moment though as she has t have medication every day and it is a fight to the death. I am not a vegetarian to my eternal shame. I have to admit it I love beef. The thought of having to give up steak is not a good one. Ha ha Piggles hun, perhaps ours just take after their owners - greedy LOL!! I think pork is my least favourite meat although I love the odd pork chop. I remember making some lovely things when I had a deep fat fryer Bean, the samosas were divine.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Apr 23, 2016 23:16:34 GMT
Luckily, I got back my love of pork, though it was touch and go there for a while It never seems to fail that we go off something we just invested a lot of money in. Got you about the runs. I can understand them not having total access to the run that moves around. I'd like to create a truly safe run I can move about the grass in one place, once we have a lawn, that is. My biggest concern has always been having to go inside for an emergency, and leaving them unattended in the pen. We have hawks around here. So I just want a covered, secured run I can leave them in for a few minutes, if I have to.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Apr 24, 2016 20:36:30 GMT
Even as a child pork wasn't my favourite. I am very boring when I go out for a meal (which hasn't been in the last millenium LOL) because I will always have steak. Smoked salmon to start, steak to follow and a nice pud to finish. Oh, making myself hungry.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by Bean on Apr 25, 2016 8:25:59 GMT
And me too Jo, and it's only 9.30am! How do you have your steak Jo?
Our runs are both secure enough to be left for a while without me worrying about anything getting in. They always have hideys in there so the animals can feel safe if anything startles them.
I had an awful dream last night that I went to bring the pigs in from outdoors and realised I'd accidentally put them all in the same run together, and Josh and Cadders had been fighting all afternoon - Josh's front teeth had been knocked out and Cadders was covered in cuts. As I was helping them, they turned into my previous pigs Tefal (Josh) and Ziggy (Cadders), so it must have been brought on by me having my little trip down memory lane!
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Post by 3piggles on Apr 25, 2016 14:21:07 GMT
Aw, sad but sweet trip down memory lane. I'm glad it was just a dream. I've had those dreams about my animals before. They are very unsettling. Jo, when we went to the Bahamas, we took our neighbors daughter, who is the same age as our daughter. She ate chicken tenders, sometimes called chicken fingers, every where we went. Even in the Bahamas, with some cool foods to try that we don't get back home, she had chicken fingers. You're not as boring as you think. You just like to have someone else cook your favorite foods for you, when you go out We have too many predators to really have small furries living outdoors. Bear, coyotes, foxes and even bobcats are fairly common, and they will destroy the allegedly safe housing. If you don't have any major predators, that's not an issue.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Apr 25, 2016 19:36:40 GMT
I like mine medium rare Bean love, if overdone I think it becomes far too tough. Oh that is awful sweetie, I don't dream about mine very often and I am glad to say I have never had one like that. I hope you are all right now hun, it sounds dreadful. Too true Piggles honey, if I went there I would be sampling all the different delicious things but some people are only happy eating one or two foods. Yes you are right Piggles love, I do love food cooked for me, it just rarely happens lol!!
Hugs JO xx
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Post by Bean on Jul 14, 2016 8:10:29 GMT
I'm pleased to report that our most recent fosters, John and Daisy, have found a lovely new home. Great news as they were with us for quite a while, and John had been at the rescue for some time before that.
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Post by 3piggles on Jul 21, 2016 17:59:38 GMT
Excellent news! I hope they have long and happy lives!
I do miss having bunnies, but we haven't been in a position to house them well since we moved to the condo. I would have to keep them in a cage, and I won't do that.
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Post by Bean on Aug 9, 2016 6:37:15 GMT
Just introducing Charlie, who's been staying with us since last week, after neighbours alerted us to the fact that a rabbit was running loose in the road. We managed to catch him (on the third attempt - it's hard work capturing fast animal who's been running wild and is very scared!) but haven't managed to find his owner. There's always the possibility he was set loose intentionally. We didn't have any foster buns in at the time so were able to offer him our bunny set up which was pretty convenient! And we're very grateful that the wonderful Camp Nibble have offered him a rescue place, where he'll be on the road to a much better life. He's currently rather thin, but seems like a really sweet-natured bun. He's bored rigid on his own though, so I'm very excited about him finding a friend once he's had all his health checks, vaccinations and been neutered if necessary. We spend as much time with him as we can but there's no substitute for a bunny friend.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Aug 10, 2016 10:01:59 GMT
He is an absolutely poppet and I am so glad you managed to catch him, poor little love running around in the road. Please keep us updated, he will soon come around with lots of love and affection.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by Bean on Aug 10, 2016 16:52:12 GMT
I had my two kids and my niece working to corner him in a pincer movement, but he was so fast and kept pegging off to places where he could nip through a bush or under a fence.
In the end a neighbour came out too and the five of us managed to get him to run into our front garden where there's no way through. As soon as he went in there I was pretty hopeful I'd catch him, but so very grateful when I managed to pick him up and pop him in the carrier. The neighbourhood cats had been teasing him, so thank goodness he didn't have to spend another night out there. He was pretty thin (he seems to be filling out a bit now) so I think he'd had at least a few nights out.
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Post by 3piggles on Aug 15, 2016 18:56:36 GMT
I can't believe I didn't comment on this. I know I read it. I'm so glad Charlie is at Nibbles, and has a chance for a great life
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Post by shades on Aug 16, 2016 11:50:05 GMT
Just introducing Charlie, who's been staying with us since last week, after neighbours alerted us to the fact that a rabbit was running loose in the road. We managed to catch him (on the third attempt - it's hard work capturing fast animal who's been running wild and is very scared!) but haven't managed to find his owner. There's always the possibility he was set loose intentionally. We didn't have any foster buns in at the time so were able to offer him our bunny set up which was pretty convenient! And we're very grateful that the wonderful Camp Nibble have offered him a rescue place, where he'll be on the road to a much better life. He's currently rather thin, but seems like a really sweet-natured bun. He's bored rigid on his own though, so I'm very excited about him finding a friend once he's had all his health checks, vaccinations and been neutered if necessary. We spend as much time with him as we can but there's no substitute for a bunny friend. I've just caught this story. Well done for catching a rabbit. It mustn't have been easy. At least that's your weekly exercise over with I'm so surprised that you were able to get it to tell you it's name is Charlie animals are far too smart nowadays.
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Post by 3piggles on Aug 16, 2016 14:39:08 GMT
Are you not getting all the new stories flagged, when they're new? I just got this story yesterday?
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Post by jolovespiggies on Aug 17, 2016 9:31:07 GMT
How is he getting on love?
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by Bean on Aug 21, 2016 21:27:59 GMT
We've just got back from our trip, but when we pick up some new fosters I'll check how the little chap's getting along. I'm so surprised that you were able to get it to tell you it's name is Charlie animals are far too smart nowadays. Or alternatively, my animal communication skills are very advanced?! (But really, I had three kids on my hands who had absolute faith that I'd catch him - they'd started planning names and his future before we'd even caught him, no pressure!)
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Post by jolovespiggies on Aug 22, 2016 8:34:58 GMT
They are like kids these days, grow up too fast and know too much too young lol!
Hugs Jo xx
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