Pig Toting and Skitterflower

All our visitors are tickled by the piggles.  What can I say?  They're silly, gentle, chubby happy little creatures and all you want to do is feed them treats and watch their little beady faces.  This photo is of my mom holding Troggle.  I was washing dishes and heard my mom talking in her "cute animals" voice (mainly in her native Turkish) and then it was silent for a second.  THEN she walked around the corner into our view and she was holding little Troggle like this!  See the silly little toes and splayed left finger/toes??  Too funny!!  And my mom was so tickled because the other pigs are skittish, but Troggle just doesn't care (she'd be an excellent petting-zoo pig!!!), and Troggle is a satisfyingly plump, chubby fat little tubby complacent blorp.

One thing that makes me laugh are their hind legs.  I'll try to get a good photo of their hind legs to post.  Anyhow the back legs are longer and look kind of like skinny little frog legs, but cute, and they have only 3 toes per back foot!  Sometimes they stretch out and lounge, and stick out a hind leg and you can feel the leathery underside of their little distal leg segment, the tibia/fibula part I suppose - it feels like an elbow!  Cute!!  And often when they skitter into their pigloos they leave a hind leg behind.  When we see this we announce, "LEG!"  It's a very specific statement.

In a separate incident, haha, we have a half-log looking thing with a little hole/window cut into it, and it's called an edibe hideaway or something like that.  I think it's built for thinner/younger pigs, and the window is small.  Anyhow, Skitter was hanging out when Troggle pinned her in by being one one side, and the other side of the tunnel was against a wall.  We were offering treats at the time, and Skitter was SOOOOoooo desperate to get one she stuffed her fat face through the log window - but she got stuck!!!!  And (I didn't see this, but was in the room at the time) Skitter was so far pushed in that there was a (and I quote) "pancake of fat around her silly face!"  Hahahahaha!!!!!  This later inspired the nickname "Skitterflower" because her neck-fat pancake looked like a ring of petals around her piggie face.

:)