WEAVER
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As most of you know I lost my piggy Oreo almost two weeks ago. It has been a very difficult time for me and my children (this is the first pet they have lost). Although I still think about him all the time it is becoming a little easier and tears do not follow all the memories, only some. I know things will get better with time and I know in my heart I made the right decision.
I still have Oreo's cage connected to the others cage. I cleaned it completely out the day he was layed to rest. Since than it has been empty and only the white coroplast is at the bottom of the cage. It saddens me greatly when I go into my room and the bright white catches my eye. When I spend time with the others I can not help but think and look over at the cage Oreo onced resided in and miss him even more. When my other pigs are doing something, I know what Oreo would be doing at that time too. I can not seem to move on, nor do I have the heart to reconfigure the larger cage and move Oreo's completely out of there.
My husband is getting worried and says this is unhealthy and Oreo would not want me to do this. I know he is right, I really do, but it is just so hard.
My husband and I have talked in great length about all of this, we talked about taking down the grid dividing the cage and just open it up for the others making their cage bigger, but their cage is already huge for only four pigs. Well after thinking and much talking my husband thinks we should adopt two more boys and add Oreo's cage a hayloft on the top to make it accomadate two males. We had also talked about adopting two more females so instead we would only have one huge cage to clean. We went back and forth about that for a while and decided we would look into adopting two more boys and housing them seperate seeing there are so many more males in need of homes in our area. We have the room, I have the time, I definetly have enough love and I think maybe doing something positive like saving two more would be the right thing to do. I think that is what Oreo would want me to do.
We have contacted Janet (the lady I adopted Belle and Roxie from) and she has two males that need to stay together. We are going to pick them on this Sunday and make another day trip out of it. (She is about 4 1/2 hours one way away from me.) I am very excited and I wanted to share the new with all of you, I hope all of you can be excited for me
Sticking with the Rocky and BullWinkle theme I currently have. . .Boris, Natasha, Roxie and Belle-Winkle, the two new boys are going to be . . . .(drum-roll please .. ..) Mr. Peabody and Dudley and here are the boys . . .
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I still have Oreo's cage connected to the others cage. I cleaned it completely out the day he was layed to rest. Since than it has been empty and only the white coroplast is at the bottom of the cage. It saddens me greatly when I go into my room and the bright white catches my eye. When I spend time with the others I can not help but think and look over at the cage Oreo onced resided in and miss him even more. When my other pigs are doing something, I know what Oreo would be doing at that time too. I can not seem to move on, nor do I have the heart to reconfigure the larger cage and move Oreo's completely out of there.
My husband is getting worried and says this is unhealthy and Oreo would not want me to do this. I know he is right, I really do, but it is just so hard.
My husband and I have talked in great length about all of this, we talked about taking down the grid dividing the cage and just open it up for the others making their cage bigger, but their cage is already huge for only four pigs. Well after thinking and much talking my husband thinks we should adopt two more boys and add Oreo's cage a hayloft on the top to make it accomadate two males. We had also talked about adopting two more females so instead we would only have one huge cage to clean. We went back and forth about that for a while and decided we would look into adopting two more boys and housing them seperate seeing there are so many more males in need of homes in our area. We have the room, I have the time, I definetly have enough love and I think maybe doing something positive like saving two more would be the right thing to do. I think that is what Oreo would want me to do.
We have contacted Janet (the lady I adopted Belle and Roxie from) and she has two males that need to stay together. We are going to pick them on this Sunday and make another day trip out of it. (She is about 4 1/2 hours one way away from me.) I am very excited and I wanted to share the new with all of you, I hope all of you can be excited for me
Sticking with the Rocky and BullWinkle theme I currently have. . .Boris, Natasha, Roxie and Belle-Winkle, the two new boys are going to be . . . .(drum-roll please .. ..) Mr. Peabody and Dudley and here are the boys . . .(broken link removed)
