Calling redhen!!! WE"VE GOT BUGS!!!

[shelleyd2008]

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Yeah, the little cutie in my avatar

 

[shelleyd2008]

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He was only about 6-8 months, but we didn't have him in a good area, and he got too hot

Like I said, definitely do some serious planning before we get another one.

 

[maplesky7]

awwwwwwwwwwww!!! but he's sooooo cute.

he was just a little guy then huh?

did he get sick??

 

[shelleyd2008]

He wasn't little then!! Nothing like redhen's piggys. I really think it was just the heat. It was in April or May, and we'd had some pretty warm days (85+). He wasn't in a very good area, not much shade and stuff.

 

[maplesky7]

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He was only about 6-8 months, but we didn't have him in a good area, and he got too hot

Like I said, definitely do some serious planning before we get another one.

oh, i'm so sorry. that's got to be rough.

i lost some chickens like that before... gets hard to cool em down sometimes but they were just meat birds.

yours was a cute little piggy.

 

[maplesky7]

ok... cute BIG pig...

 

[chilling in muscadine]

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OMG I didn't know

I'm so sorry.

I just gasped and grabbed my chest. I thought I was gonna lose Pitunia a few months back. She had a high fever and didn't show up for dinner that night. I stayed up all that night with my BYC friends and tried to get the fever to break. The vet gave her meds the next morning and she got better.

Her and Stormy broke into my cainets the day before and broke into two cases of indvidual packs of ranch dressing and ate them. Man what a mess I woke up to. Ranch dressing all over my girls, all over my house.

Yes, definately get another one. My Stormy takes her evening nap with me in my recliner.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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OMG I didn't know

I'm so sorry.

I just gasped and grabbed my chest. I thought I was gonna lose Pitunia a few months back. She had a high fever and didn't show up for dinner that night. I stayed up all that night with my BYC friends and tried to get the fever to break. The vet gave her meds the next morning and she got better.

Her and Stormy broke into my cainets the day before and broke into two cases of indvidual packs of ranch dressing and ate them. Man what a mess I woke up to. Ranch dressing all over my girls, all over my house.

Yes, definately get another one. My Stormy takes her evening nap with me in my recliner.

That's part of my problem, that I can't keep one in the house. If I didn't live with my dad, and if I had a bigger house, it wouldn't be a problem, but it's just not possible. I'll figure something out, I loved that little guy. He was such a sweety.

I can imagine what kind of mess you had! You need to get locks on your cabinets

 

[chilling in muscadine]

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OMG I didn't know

I'm so sorry.

I just gasped and grabbed my chest. I thought I was gonna lose Pitunia a few months back. She had a high fever and didn't show up for dinner that night. I stayed up all that night with my BYC friends and tried to get the fever to break. The vet gave her meds the next morning and she got better.

Her and Stormy broke into my cainets the day before and broke into two cases of indvidual packs of ranch dressing and ate them. Man what a mess I woke up to. Ranch dressing all over my girls, all over my house.

Yes, definately get another one. My Stormy takes her evening nap with me in my recliner.

That's part of my problem, that I can't keep one in the house. If I didn't live with my dad, and if I had a bigger house, it wouldn't be a problem, but it's just not possible. I'll figure something out, I loved that little guy. He was such a sweety.

I can imagine what kind of mess you had! You need to get locks on your cabinets

Ya I remember you can't keep one in the house and it would be hard to hide a pig from your dad like the mealworms. Snakeman said to tell you he was real sorry too.

If you are like me, you'll figure out a way though. Maybe take a little time.

I do have locks on those cabinets now. My dogs have never went there but since the salad dressing event they think they should check the area daily. The boxes were both restaurant size. What made it so bad was once a package was torn open, a pig would step on it and squirt the dressing everywhere. I had to clean furniture, walls, cabinets and stove.

By morning my dogs had cleaned each other up so they looked totally innocent. My girls were covered in it.

 

[shelleyd2008]

They should have cleaned the pigs, but maybe they knew they would have been blamed?

We have some hog panels (fencing) along with some 2x4 woven wire, I just need to make a pen somewhere better.

But I am planning on getting some dog kennels for my GSD, beagle, and one of my dad's beagles, so maybe I'll just get a little extra for a new piggy?
I'm going to plant trees, shrubs, vines, you name it, to make sure there is enough shade for the dogs, and have even been contemplating getting a small kiddie pool for the dogs to play in.

What I would like to do is have 2 kennels, either 6x10 or 10x10, the GSD in one kennel, the two beagles in the other. Then I want to have probably a 20x20 or 30x30 fenced play area, so the dogs don't have to always be in the kennels. So a piggy could practically 'live' in the exercise yard, except for when the dogs are out. I don't think the beagles would bother a piggy, but the GSD would probably try to eat it

She eats anything else she can catch it seems, so I'm not going to put it past her.

Back to the wormies!

I still haven't moved them, I'm being lazy today