Cogni
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Cavy Slave
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- Joined
- Oct 7, 2009
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- 1,405
Hi all,
I've been lurking on this site a few weeks, occasionally replying to a post. As well as reading up on all the info on the site. I just figured out how to start my own thread (duh!).
Today I picked up 2 boy piggies that I found on Craig's list. My very first piggies! A father and son. The father is obviously abyssinian, with little rosettes, and the son looks like a mix but with a lot of the coloring of the dad (dark brown, light brown and white). I wish I could post photos but my camera stopped working a while ago and I have not had time to troubleshoot it.
I am giving them some floor time in the bathroom right now. It's tiled and safe. I fed them some veggies and put lots of hay in little plastic containers in various areas. They approached me pretty close on the bathroom floor (I sat at one end of it) but don't want to come too near yet. I have put their igloo in there and also an "edible basket" with bedding in it. I just checked on them and they are still wandering around exploring.
I have grids and am putting together a cage around a large plastic underbed storage bin. I'll use two of these bins, connected with ramps, as soon as I get some more grids. (I saw online how somebody did this, and I just happened to have two of these bins in the attic. ) The piggies were in a much smaller cage, with cedar(!) bedding but I got rid of all that. I am using aspen shavings for now but they'll graduate to fleece once I get that organized.
This is a real adventure for me. My husband happens to be travelling in Asia right now but he is also excited about the new additions to the family. I'll show him the piggies via videochat if they will let me. (We have no kids; but have been married long enough to have college age kids, I realized with a shock.) We live in Houston Texas but are not from here.
I've been lurking on this site a few weeks, occasionally replying to a post. As well as reading up on all the info on the site. I just figured out how to start my own thread (duh!).
Today I picked up 2 boy piggies that I found on Craig's list. My very first piggies! A father and son. The father is obviously abyssinian, with little rosettes, and the son looks like a mix but with a lot of the coloring of the dad (dark brown, light brown and white). I wish I could post photos but my camera stopped working a while ago and I have not had time to troubleshoot it.
I am giving them some floor time in the bathroom right now. It's tiled and safe. I fed them some veggies and put lots of hay in little plastic containers in various areas. They approached me pretty close on the bathroom floor (I sat at one end of it) but don't want to come too near yet. I have put their igloo in there and also an "edible basket" with bedding in it. I just checked on them and they are still wandering around exploring.
I have grids and am putting together a cage around a large plastic underbed storage bin. I'll use two of these bins, connected with ramps, as soon as I get some more grids. (I saw online how somebody did this, and I just happened to have two of these bins in the attic. ) The piggies were in a much smaller cage, with cedar(!) bedding but I got rid of all that. I am using aspen shavings for now but they'll graduate to fleece once I get that organized.
This is a real adventure for me. My husband happens to be travelling in Asia right now but he is also excited about the new additions to the family. I'll show him the piggies via videochat if they will let me. (We have no kids; but have been married long enough to have college age kids, I realized with a shock.) We live in Houston Texas but are not from here.
