Exactly right on the money Marlene. Sorie, this fall buy one of those fake spider web and weave in one of the words that Charlotte did. Dont forget the fake spider. You are so lucky!

They get big. I don't know about the females but the males get huge. I joke and say that they are about the size of a volkswagen, but from pictures I have seen of ones that have been killed, they are very big. I would research more, but when I search feral hogs on the internet, I find pics of dead ones hung up to trees and dogs attacking them, and I find that disturbing. At least, it is something I don't want to see. I will keep updating her progress as she grows. She is very funny and playful. She likes to take an old tee shirt and drag it around. She likes for me to use it like a bullfighter cape and she runs through it. Today I went in the house, wearing sweats, and came out wearing jeans, and she was startled and didn't recognize me and ran away, but came back when I called her. She's a lot of fun.

She's doing pretty good. She has the whole pen to herself, having evicted the chicken and the duck. She lays around in her house and has plowed up the whole bottom of the pen. It has about 6" of oyster shell under a layer that has built up over time of shavings, etc., and she hasn't gotten down to the shell yet, but she has pretty well dug up the whole thing. She is getting her pellets and I added a little rabbit pellets to it and chopped apple and banana. Also when I was weeding a flower bed, I took some of the weeds and cut the tops off and she ate the roots, and I had some collards here for the squirrel and she ate some of that. Also had a few rat biscuits...and some "hawg biscuits"...dog biscuits. Someone sent me a bunch of peanut butter flavored dog biscuits and my dogs don't care for them, but she likes them. She's not a picky eater. :)) I just got back from the Dollar Store and bought a ball for her...a little smaller than a basket ball. I thought she might enjoy pushing it around, but so far, is afraid of it. But all in all, she seems to be settling in nicely. She let me scratch her on the back, but she hasn't really shown any appreciation for it like my other pigs.

Hugs...Rest in peace Piggy Sue... Marilyn, hope you don't mind me sharing this.. A case near here. A friend free leased her gentle horse to a little girl and it went to a boarding stable. She thought all was well, but went along with the horse dentist to visit another patient and stopped in to see him. Good thing she did because he was about starved. The vet said he was about a 3 on the weight scale. The stable owner came up with all kind of excuses - horse had bad teeth, was old etc. She took her horse back and he looks great. Other horses weren't so lucky because 2 had died recently before he was removed. The animal warden was called and didn't show up for a while and the case was thrown out because the warden didn't see the horse right away - even though he was repeatedly called. The judge didn't want to see the paperwork or the testimony of the vet. There is no justice for animals... I heard yesterday the warden is gone now - a bit too late. I hope you get your revenge, but be careful...