Spotlight Thursday – Meet Madeline and Prissy

Spotlight Thursday

Welcome my friends to SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY.  This is the time that I will introduce you to one of my fellow anipals so you can get to know them better.  Some of them, you may already know.  Today we bring you interviews on two piggies that mean the world to us.  Hope you enjoy!

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Name:  Madeline

Age:  3

Location:   The Bonnell Farm in Hampton, Georgia

Web/Blog Page:  The Bonnell Farm

What were your first thoughts when you met your new parents?  I squealed for joy – on second thought I actually squealed all the time. This was a ploy of mine to make my new owner know I was in charge, too bad it did not work

What was the defining moment when you knew you were in your forever home?  I knew I was in my forever home when the food and treats came to me at scheduled times. But really, 1 cup of Mazuri mini pig food twice a day? I’m debating to know if my owner understands I’m a pig.

What has been your biggest “Oh no, now I’ve done it” moment so far in your home?   It was when I was moved out or grew out of my inside pen and was moved to the outside barn and pasture. Now some of you will think that’s pretty good. What you are not seeing is there are four goats already there! Chewy, Dewey, Louie and Huey, my new stepbrothers. Pretty brutal to start out as they butted and rolled to me quite often. All is well now since they found out I can bite!

 Who do you have wrapped around your paws more – mom or dad – and why?  I have mom all wrapped up. She still likes to cuddle and talk to me. Dad keeps bringing up breakfast with bacon, I’m not sure about him!

 What’s the biggest misconception that humans think about you?  My family really thinks it’s neat to dress me up for the holidays. Really, a wig for Halloween and antlers for Christmas! I play their game, not because I’m ignoring the situation but because my mom puts this gaudy stuff on me and then gives me a treat. Hey, I’m a pig and I love to eat!

 

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Name:  Prissy

Age:  2

Location:   The Bonnell Farm in Hampton, Georgia

Web/Blog Page:  The Bonnell Farm

What were your first thoughts when you met your new parents?  Well….. I have two momma’s!  Momma #2 (Debbie) delivered me and fell in love with me because I would always walk out to her when she would come down to check on all of us!  Momma #1 (Sylvia) loved me right away. Her human man was shocked because I was a Christmas surprise to everyone but her.  But he likes me now and helps feed me sometimes.  He tells people about me but always starts off with, “it wasn’t my idea to get a pig,” then says how petite (he says small, but the moms say I’m itty bitty or tiny – it’s a girl thing) I am.

What was the defining moment when you knew you were in your forever home?  It was my first winter when I lived on the sun porch and momma #2 worried and fretted I was gonna freeze to death even tho I had a heat lamp, a heating pad and enough blankets to outfit a girls dorm.

What has been your biggest “Oh no, Now I’ve done it” moment so far in your home?  Well, I’m a barn and pasture pig. My birth momma (Madeline) is in the pasture next to mine with my four goat uncles, Chewy, Dewey, Louie and Huey.  She’s pretty crabby most of the time and when I got a little older I got sassy with her and she tried to bite me through the fence. Boy! The uncles are afraid of her and run when she gets in a mood. It’s usually when we get treats.

Who do you have wrapped around your paws more – mom or dad – and why?  Momma #2 is a bigger push-over because she always worries if my barn bed has enough straw. I’m the smallest of all of us and I have enough straw to build a piggy straw house!

What’s the biggest misconception that humans think about you?  People think pigs are stinky! That’s so not true! In the summer I like to stand under the hose sprinkler and get into my pool. They also think we cannot be trained. Well, even though I’m an outside pig I can sit for a treat. Momma #2 taught me that. She has a lot of patience. Momma #1 told me she read somewhere that pigs are the third smartest animal.  She reads a lot.  I cannot read. But I bet I could be taught how!!

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I hope you enjoyed meeting my friends Madeline and Prissy – check back next week for another Spotlight edition!

 

Mom’s Visit With Piglets

First off, mom really?  You left me at home while you went out “shopping”.  Yep, believe it my friends.  She told me she was going “shopping”.  Unbeknownst to me, she went to look at little piglets.  But, let me back up a bit.  I found all of these incriminating pictures in mom’s iPhone.  Cough – cough, daddy just happened to leave mom’s phone unsecured so I could look around in there.  I do believe daddy did that on purpose so I could see I was in the possible line of some competition.  Smart move daddy – smart move.

So mom, dad and even nana (can you believe that!) went to their friends house, Tom and Debbie, that was not too far down the road from the Hotel Thompson.  They were greeted at the car door by some curious goats.  They are so cute!  Mommy said they just wondered right up to the car to say, “Hey, whatcha doin’ here?”

It was a wonderful greeting.  Nana especially liked this white and brown one.  She kept playing with it and it would tug at her jacket.  I think if given half of a chance, nana would have brought one of them home with her!

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They were sweet things!  But daddy said they were there to see piglets.  Have you picked up on daddy kept rubbing this in to me that they (1) went to look at piglets and (2) how he threw mom up under the bus for doing so?  Do you think he’s kind of trying to tell me something?  Yeah, I thought so too.

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I have to admit that once I saw the piglets, I oohhed and aawwedd.  They were adorable!  Mommy got there in time to see a feeding. There is *nothing* like babies.  I can say that.  I used to be one 🙂 These little tykes are two weeks old.  So feisty, so cute – you just want to cuddle and play.  And, they were playing with each other!  Can you believe that?  Mommy told me that they were ‘pouncing’ at each other and rumbling around.  And mommy said she held one and she was warm, cute and loveable.

The mom, her name is Madeline.  Her humans got her when she was only FIVE days old from Douglasville, GA.  Can you believe that?  That’s her in the picture feeding her babies.  She is a miniature pot bellied pig – like me 🙂  She’s taking awesome care of her little babies.

The daddy, RJ (Romeo Junior), is a Tea Cup and he is smaller than Madeline.  They got RJ from Dry Ridge, Kentucky.  Can you believe that they um how do I say this nicely – insert chickabow chickabow bow wow – when RJ was two months old?  They are such a cute couple.  Can’t you just hear Barry White singing in the back ground? snorts.

Tom and Debbie are selling these precious little piglets.  If you are interested in them, send me an email at Baconthompson@gmail.com and I’ll put you in touch with Debbie.  Hopefully, they will have their website up and going soon and I will also post it for everyone to look at.

And, I know you are asking yourself if mommy brought me home a brother or a sister.  Mommy was awfully tempted.  Heck if it was up to her, she would have a zoo here at the Hotel Thompson.  But, they didn’t bring one home.  Daddy said that mommy’s biological clock was ticking – tick tock tick tock – (personally I think it was a bomb ticking), but she didn’t cave.  I am still the one and only here at the Hotel Thompson.  I mean, I am just a *little* spoiled here.  If mommy gets another baby, then I can’t be the baby, right?

 

May I Present to You – Madeline

Look – look at the piggy babies!  There’s 8 of those cute little guys and girls.  Madeline belongs to a friend of mom’s and she gave birth this past Saturday.  Dontcha just want one?  Just to cuddle and oohh and aawwee?

Mom is getting that “look” in her eye.  You know the one that you humans get when you eyes glass over and water comes out and your heart pitter patters… that’s the one.  I think her pigological clock is stomping again.  Lord help us ALL if she adopts a friend for me – snorts.  Can you imagine the Hotel Thompson with two of us ruling the roost?