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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 12, 2016 20:17:02 GMT
He is just adorable hunni, keep 'em comin'
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by Bean on Mar 14, 2016 10:48:48 GMT
Aww what gorgeous pictures - I bet it's brought back many happy memories looking through them all. You can't help but wish you still had them with you now, but it's great to be able to remember all the happy times with them so vividly - photos definitely help with that.
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 14, 2016 16:51:16 GMT
Cleaning out my Photobucket account reminded me of pictures I hadn't looked at in a really long time. So I thought I'd do a trip down memory lane Not the best picture of Dallas, but I had this and a couple of other pictures posted on a different forum, when my disc crashed and took all the pictures with it. This was one of the few I could copy back from the forum. Dallas was my allergy pig. He survived pneumonia only to develop asthma and many allergies including hay. His environment has to be kept as dust free as possible. No plastic pigloos or tubes, as they don't allow enough air to escape. Wooden houses, carboard tubes/tunnels. I had to mist his hay with water to reduce the dust and pollen as much as possible. Fleece bedding only, and even that had to be misted. No perfume or dye in the detergent, etc. He was a wonderful guinea guy, and was the perfect nanny boar to a totally juvenile Zippy Once we lost Dallas, Zippy was miserable, so I took him to a rescue to do a meet and greet. Unfortunately, the women running the meet and greet decided the boar I thought worked great with Zip wasn't gutsy enough, and tried Grisham. Grishy was a great guinea guy on his own, but with Zippy, he was stressed and aggressive. Sadly, they two boys had to share housing at the vet when we went to our nieces wedding, and I think the stress of the situation caused him to develop a URI and die, in a matter of hours. Equally sad was how happy Zippy was to be free of his tormentor. I had him neutered, and he joined Momma and Harlequin, and was a very happy boy
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 14, 2016 21:09:07 GMT
Thank you for the lovely accompanying stories as well as the pictures Piggles hun. I always feel a wrench when I look at piccies of my past babies but Paul says it is a celebration of life, not death. I know he is right of course but I get very emotional. Gorgeous piggies and very much missed.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 15, 2016 13:01:16 GMT
That's how I feel, though it's still hard to look at pictures of Zippy, and not tear up. He was the special pig for me, and I will always miss him. All of my pigs have been special to me, and very special in their own ways, but he was THAT pig for me
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Post by bazookagoof on Mar 16, 2016 1:58:08 GMT
Deo's been gone about five months now, and we only had him for about five months, and I'm still missing him. I empathize with your loss. (I am loving the old pictures, though.)
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 16, 2016 14:14:34 GMT
They have a huge effect on us, for such little furballs, that's for sure! Momma, with Harlequin in the paper bag in the background. Almost all of my pictures of Harlequin are of her in something, peeking out. She was a piggy who loved to have hiding places: Back before I had to separate Momo, when they all got along. Morty, Molly, Mia and Momo Harlequin. She loved Zippy so much, she looked all over the house for him when he died, even though I let them say goodbye to him. I had a picture of him on the wall by one of their lofts, and she used to talk to his picture. No one will ever convince me animals forget. She never forgot her Zippy: The picture of Zippy on the wall by the loft. Molly is lying on the loft where Harlequin used to talk to his picture
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 16, 2016 21:07:27 GMT
I know what you mean Piggles love, Holly is THAT bunny for me and it is going to be awful when I loose her. I still miss my babies and usually when I think of them I start to cry. Thank you for more lovely pigtures and I agree, I don't think animals ever forget and I think they grieve in exactly the same way as we do. I think it is lovely that you talk to her photo. I just talk to my ones who have left hoping that they will hear me. Just writing this is jogging the tears.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 17, 2016 13:47:19 GMT
Harlequin did love Zippy so much, and it was sad to watch her talking to he photo, and not understanding why he didn't talk back or join her. If you notice the size of him in his picture by the loft is a bit bigger than he really was, but definitely life sized for a guinea pig. I noticed Zippy was also in the picture of Momma and Harlequin. That was their out of cage living area, when they all ranged free. Lousy old carpeting we planned to replace anyway, so I didn't mind if it got peed on. I just ran the carpet cleaner machine over it once a month, and kept it clean. I just found these while looking for another photo. This is such a cute picture of Morty and Molly, his true love After bath picture of Harlequin, Molly and Momma The out of cage feeding station in the old piggy room. They had a tube ramp so they could go in and out of Pigloo City any time they wanted. Once out in the room, they had this feeding station under the bureau that will become their new home, once we move. Not great for doing zoomies, but it will have three levels of living space with tube ramps. This was Pigloo City, then. They lived on the upper two levels which were 4'x8' and 2'x8', which was 48 square feet. They did zoomies up and down the tube ramps
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 18, 2016 20:58:26 GMT
Gorgeous photos hunni, I particularly love the second one, it is so cute.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by Bean on Mar 21, 2016 10:34:48 GMT
Adorable! Will have to have a root around my old photos.
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 22, 2016 15:46:51 GMT
We finally got the new Eye-fi card, and could take some pictures of the cage with hay in it. I don't replace all of the hay every day. I roll it up into a bale and clean the bedding under it, then roll it back out and do the same with the kitchen area. Then I put fresh hay in the kitchen area. I get all the poos, get to rearrange the bedding and level it if necessary, the pigs get fresh hay daily, and all the yucky stuff falls out when I roll up the hay, and I sweep it out of the cage. The kitchen area and part of the living area: The living area with the cardboard box house: Noodles peaking out of the cardboard box house: Oodles peaking out of the hay:
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Post by shades on Mar 23, 2016 6:46:41 GMT
3piggles I might have asked you before, but how high is the clear plastic at the front of the cage? Aren't you afraid they will jump out? Also, I'm thinking of making a two-tier cage, so what's the height between the two floors?
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 23, 2016 11:58:05 GMT
It's about 6 inches, and I think because they can see through it, they don't seem to have any desire to jump over it. They have leaned out far enough that I thought they would fall, but they never do. Momo was a jumper, as was Dallas. Jumpers will jump out and off anything and everything, and they did. Fearless or stupid, not at all sure. Two out of all those pigs isn't bad, and unless I totally confined them, they were going to jump. I found it was more important to move everything away from the front edge, so they couldn't jump, or to use extra grids where they could get up on something that would help them jump out. They won't get up on the cardboard box house, so without the grid houses in the cage, they don't need the extra grids to keep them in the cage.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 23, 2016 21:34:04 GMT
Lovely photos hunni, I love the one of him peeping.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 27, 2016 12:50:50 GMT
Fresh hay day, before any of it starts to pack down, and before it gets rolled up to clean under. There are two very happy guinea girls in that hay, which if the picture had sound, you would be able to hear talking endlessly. About the first 30 minutes after I fill the cage with fresh hay, is nonstop talking, moving, popcorning and popping out to see if there's a chance of treats
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 27, 2016 20:14:06 GMT
It is so lovely to hear of piggies jumping for joy, you are doing a brilliant job hun and their home looks great. Ours have fresh hay put in their pen every day and they love it.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by shades on Mar 28, 2016 2:10:02 GMT
Last night I got my tools out again to continue my two-tier cage project underway again. Well, actually it began as a mega-one-tier but I found the footprint was too large - it wouldn't be easy to move around and I could hear the voice of dissent about the monster cage in the living room I'm gonna add walkways outside of the cage on both sides. I'm still not sure what kind of flooring it'll need to give some grip for the pigs to go up and down safely. And I need to get some correx too. That's more difficult to get delivered or find a retail seller. My main worry is that it's an open cage and the pigs could jump out. I don't think they will because they're not that brave (I'm thinking they might not even go upstairs) but you never know.
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Post by 3piggles on Apr 4, 2016 14:02:13 GMT
Saturday was a very busy day for us, so other than greeting the girls in the morning, and giving them their breakfast treats, I totally neglected them most of the day. Hubby put them to bed Saturday night, even. When I did go down to see them, they were obviously not at all happy with me. They would give hubby nose bonks, but not me. Sunday, I made it up to them, and not only did I get nose bonks again, but lots of popcorning and conversation. It was great to be back in their good graces again We're are moving to a house we're having built, and it is a much smaller house than this one. The current cage is 91" long and 15" deep. I don't think we even have a wall that's 91" long in the new house. So I've been running different cage options through my mind, trying to come up with one that would look like furniture so it would be acceptable in the living room, allows us to have a platform for plants to winter over in the windows, and that has the basic condo at waist height so I don't have to bend do clean the cage. I have a lot of ideas, but it's going to have to be something I can easily build with a minimal number of tools, as we've given most of those to our daughter and family. We also won't really have a good place to build/finish any furniture, so it needs to be a basically bolt together design. My latest idea uses parts to make tables/bookcases. The parts come separately, and are available at DIY stores. I can get different sized table tops for the living areas, different height table legs/bookcase shelf legs, so I can do a top over the main living area, and a lower level that doesn't have to be cleaned as often or requires as much cleaning. This is a coffee table I built using a table top, four legs and four plates under the table top to screw the legs into. The table tops come in different sizes and shapes. The legs come in different lengths and designs. The plates to just screw the legs into under the table tops are readily available. It's just a matter of picking the type of tops/shelves I want, the type/size of legs, and screwing it all together. It can be painted/stained to match the dark wood furniture, and it's easy to use the hole cutting saw to make an opening for a ramp between levels. I'll probably come up with more ideas, but eventually we'll have to settle on one that both works as furniture and is easy for me to clean. Ooh, can't wait to see the new cage If the pigs feel secure/safe enough, they use the ramps. They need enough light to see where they are going. They won't enter a dark tunnel. I had to drill extra light holes in the PVC pipe I bought for a ramp, as there wasn't enough light. They would go to the entrance, but no further. Mine don't generally jump, but if you have a jumper, he or she will jump off anything. You'll need to keep houses and other things they can stand on, away from the edges. Momo was a jumper, and if she could get close enough to the edge to jump over the side Plexiglas, she would. I had to remove the hay holder, as she got into that, and it was at just the right height for her to get over the side. I used grids by the grid houses the girls used to sit on, so they couldn't jump over the edge, as the grid houses were the perfect height to clear the Plexiglas. I don't know if they have very good depth perception. Even after Mia flipped Momo up and over the side, onto the floor, Momo kept finding ways to jump out, so it seems she must have known it was a long way down, if she had very good depth perception. I couldn't find any coro where I used to live, either, so I used lino instead. Coro is good for ramps, as it has natural ridges they can get their nails into.
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Post by shades on Apr 4, 2016 14:15:10 GMT
I'm sure I read this a few days ago but it says you just posted it. I must be losing the plot, haha!
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