Rusty and The Bandit

Sadly Mrs Pig hurt her back and had to go to the Abba concert (abattoir) so we are now the new residents.

Herself has named us Rusty and The Bandit. We are a Saddleback/Duroc cross. We are growing very fast. We love all the space in the big sunny field. We also love our little house. It gets really warm when the sun shines into it in the morning and we like to go back for a snooze after breakfast. It doesn't leak even in the heaviest rain.

The pesky dogs are really scared of the hurty white stuff so they leave us alone although one decided that she liked the look of some of our food so she jumped through it. You should have heard her squeal. We laughed our heads off at her.

There's a big fella that calls into see us. He can speak pig language. It's really confusing because it sounds just like us but it really makes no sense. We come out every time to see him though because he gives us a rub on the belly or behind the ears and we love that.

It's getting very cold at night now but we just bury down into all the straw and snuggle very close together so we are quite comfortable.

Life is good.

I'm All Alone

This is Harry the pig, he left a few weeks ago in a horse box. Herself tempted us all up the ramp with a bucket. She pushed me out the jockey door and I thought she was going to push the boys out as well, but she didn't.

I haven't seen them since and I presume they have gone to that "Abba" concert Rasher was on about before she left to go to it herself.

I sulked for days and refused to get up. I pretended to starve myself but it's all being in vain. Herself has still not got me any new friends.

She says she's trying. I kind of believe her because she is out every day muttering about "no pigs".

 She decided to send Harry to Abba when she took this picture of him and saw his big ham!

I'm trying to hide mine but every now and again I catch her checking it out.  She says if I don't smarten up she's getting that horse box again next week.

She used to call us the runts but Hock never really grew. That's him beside me on the right. I'm not much better because Harry bullied us both and ate the most.

She said the butcher said he was only fit to make sausages with. Herself says he'll make the most expensive sausages on the planet because he was fed so well. 

This is me now. Herself said I was so fat I had to be pregnant but I'm not.

I wish she would get me some friends but I'm very worried she's booking that Abba concert again.

Summer So Far

We didn't know quite what to make of the recent hot summer weather here recently. We found it quite uncomfortable but we just decided to spent the main part of the day sleeping. Herself was amazed to find us still up at eleven at night.

Herself took this photo while we were having a nap. Our house is in a shady part of the field so it was quite cool in there.

In the afternoon Hammy figured out how to slop our water out of the heavy barrel and make a pig wallow.  It took me a while to get the hang of it. Herself was a bit rude and called me stupid.  You can see a video she made of us all having a good old wallow on her vine post under name MMG.

She took this photo from her bedroom window.  You can see we have rooted up the grass but as it's old and needs reseeding, she says she's not bothered; as long as we don't make a mess like in the other place.