I have fifteen spoiled piggies of my own, all rescues. Allow me to introduce them to you...
Natasha
Natasha is a seven year old sow. She had a hard start on life and is very happy to be "retired". Out of all fifteen of my piggies she is the most mellow and friendly.
Belle
Belle is a very loving pig. She is great with the kids and loves attention. Her greatest love is food. She is the largest piggie in the cage and weighs in at over three pounds. Belle is three years old.
Roxie
Roxie is one of our most skittish pigs, but is coming around more everyday. When we went to adopt Belle, Roxie was her cagemate and we feel in love with her and offered her a home as well. She is four years old.
Mr. Peabody and Dudley
Peabody is a piggie with an attitude and I love that about him. Dudley is a fun pig always having a smile on his face. They truly are the best of friends. I am putting them together on this page, because they can not stand to be apart. When I hold one of them, the other cries for his friend. They are both about five years old.
Sherman
Sherman is a five year old neutered boar. He is the only one of my boars that is lucky enough to live with a cage full of ladies. Sherman and Sidney were a breeding pair before they were rescued. When we adopted them, we had Sherman neutered so he could happily live with Sidney once again.
Sidney
Sidney is a five year old sow. She is very friendly and takes life in strides. Nothing seems to ever get her down. She has the softest hair I ever felt on a piggie. She does not mind being brushed, as long as I remind her how beautiful she is.
Allie-Belle
Allie-Belle is another one of our babies. She is close to celebrating her very first birthday. Allie thinks that she can get away with anything, and I guess she usually does. She is such a cutie pie is hard to ever get mad at her. She has taken on the job of cage hairdresser and has made Sherman her main client. Poor Sherman. Allie really needs to find a new hobby. Bad little pig!
Lacey and Lucy
These two little pigs were at a dog pound for quite a while before coming to live with us. Both girls are still a little skittish, but are slowly beginning to warm up to us. Lacey is the one with the one pink ear, one grey ear, and Lucy has two grey ears. I am not sure if the girls are related or not, but we think they are. Lacey is larger and friendlier than Lucy, but both girls are really sweet once caught. They are estimated to be about one year old.
Spencer
Spencer is a sweet boy with tons of personality. He is a lady charmer, although has no ladies of his own. He sings to the ladies in the cage next door all of the time and loves to flirt. Spencer wishes he could trade in his current cagemate for a few woman. Having a hard life and spending a long time at the rescue waiting for a forever home he is a very grateful pig and never takes anything for granted. Clean his cage and he even popcorns. Spencer is six years old.
Hopkins
Hopkins was adopted the sametime as Spencer. He is very docile and easy going. Hopkins is one of the sweetest pigs I have ever met. He allows Spencer to boss him around and he is content just taking life in strides. Hopkins waited a very long time to find his forever home, and sometimes I think he was just waiting for me to come and get him since I looked at his picture on Petfinder for over five months. I guess he was just meant to be a WEAVER pig. I feel lucky to have him. Hopkins is four years old.
Rosa
Rosa is a fun pig, and she is so full of personality. She is very easy going and quite the charactor. She lives with Emma and Maggie two piggies that were adopted at the sametime she was. We adopted her from the Humane Society after losing two of our favorite piggies. Rosa and her friends have helped us start to smile again and made the pain a bit more manageable.
Emma
Emma is the bossy girl of the cage. She is much like the big sister. She is always in everyone's business and wanting to make sure that she is not missing out on anything. Everything has to go her way, or she is not happy. Even though she acts this way with her cagemates, she is a very sweet little pig with me. She loves to be held and snuggles with and even lays down on my lap and goes so sleep. She is a great addition to our herd.
Maggie
Maggie when we first adopted her was very shy and skittish. She was so uneasy about everything and ran anytime we came into the room. In just the little bit of time she has been here she has done a complete turn around. She has became so carefree, and easy going. She loves attention and treats. She is tolerating be held and has started to feel comfortable enough to eat while she is on my lap. I love watching her as she realizes living at the Weaver house truly is not a bad thing. I am truly smitten by her.
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So now I bet a lot of you are thinking..."What kind of cage does Marsha have fifteen pigs in???"----Well I am going to show you and try to describe it the best I can.
Here is my entire cage...
It consists of five seperate cages to make up this large cage. On the top left hand side of the cage is two 2 x 4 cages that houses my two sets of unaltered boars. Under them lives neutereed Sherman and his four ladies, Sidney, Lacey, Lucy, and Allie-Belle. On the right hand side of the cage is two 2 x 5 cages. The top level houses Natasha, Roxie, and Belle. Under them in the bottom 2 x 5 lives Rosa, Emma and Maggie.
This is the upper 2 x 4 that houses two of my unaltered boars. Hopkins and Spencer live here.
This is the other upper level 2 x 4 right next door to Hopkins and Spencer. This is Dudley and Peabody's cage.
On the far right hand side lives my girls. They live in a 2 x 5 cage. Belle, Roxie and Natasha live here.
Under the girls is my other trio of girls. They also live in a 2 x 5 cage. Emma, Rosa and Maggie live in this cage.
Under the unaltered boys' cages lives the herd. Sherman and his ladies Sidney, Lacey, Lucy, and Allie-Belle. They have a 2 x 3 kitchen area with a 2 x 5 sleeping area.
So there you have it---my cage. Gotta love those pampered little pigs!!