Pig Sitting Cisco

We are watching a 5 month old "house" pig for the next few days. He's adorable!

The first 10 hours were great.

After that, it became difficulter and difficulter. 

House pigs are like toddler beauty queens on drugs-- hyperactive, stubborn, adorable, demanding, adorable. Our house is filled with grunting. 

The dogs aren't too crazy about him. Teddy feels neglected by the lack of attention to him. By the end of the evening, he was spent. See? 

My old lady dog is terrified of him. :( She's not eating or acting normal. Poor thing hasn't eaten since he came. I was hoping she'd be better this morning.

Nope.

Poor Belle. 

After all the critters we've had (including a nasty Savannah monitor, a 10 foot long starving Burmese python that sent met to Instacare bleeding profusely, and the toddler tegu Kreature to name a few), this one is the HARDEST!!

Seriously.

It takes a special kind of soul to have a house pig.

Enjoy this adorable video of him scratching his bum on the stereo though. It made us all giggle! Sorry it's sideways!

It's Raining Savvys!

About 40 minutes before I had to leave to take Junior to the vet, I had two almost adult Savannah monitors dumped off at my house.

With nothing.

Thankfully, I had an empty tank. All I could do immediately was dump them into the tank.

Ironically, this brother & sister pair had been dumped on a sister by a brother. The sister did NOT want them or like them. She said they were mean and hadn't been fed for awhile.

Once they warmed up, I was able to feed the male. The female had no interest. I left them in their small tank with a towel and heating lamp and went to the vet.

After dinner, I debated bathing them, but wasn't sure I wanted to stress them out. But then the male pooped, stinking up my entire house. That helped made my decision. I cleaned out their tank while they soaked.

For being the same age, the male is quite a bit bigger than the female. The male is covered with nasty old shed.

My last experience with this size Savvy did not go well. I had a female Savvy chomp onto my finger and not let go. Dr Folland grabbed a pair of forceps and pried her jaw off me. Needless to say, I'm rather bite-shy around savvys now. The thought of these two being "Aggressive" made me nervous.

I'm happy to report that they were totally mellow as I got them out of the bath. The male is actually more docile than the female!

Here's me with the male:

Here's me with the female:

Savvys are quite cute. But they are big and have a POWERFUL bite (trust me on this one). I think I already have homes for both of them. Phew.