OPHELIA IS FAT

We got our "mini" pot belly pig from my sister in November of 2006. I'll never forget the date because it was the same weekend the huge earthquake hit, making it hard to get Becky, my sister, back to Oahu. The pig, Ophelia, was a refugee from the Honolulu Zoo. She was stationed in the keiki petting portion, but took a dislike to all the screaming, crying, poking, teasing kiddies (and adults, for that matter!)-can you blame her? So my sis, who works at the zoo in the reptile department, asked if we wanted her. Of course we did! So she was shipped out in a big dog kennel and arrived at her new home in good shape. She had been raised in a house as a baby (sleeping in the bed) and then went straight to the zoo. We think she had never seen real dirt she could wallow in. So, needless to say, she is in hog heaven now, living the good life, just relaxing with no worries. For the first year I was able to keep her fit and trim. Then the chickens arrived. It was impossible to feed the chickens without the pig nosing in on the action. Well, take a look at the photos and see the results for yourself! She's a grumpy piggy, but we love her. *The first photos are when we first got her, the last photos are recent*

KYLE WITH PIG, CHICKENS, ROCKING HORSE

FEEDING THE CHICKENS......

Kyle has quickly become a pro at feeding the chickens. He's got the perfect scatter throw for maximum distance and when he gets tired of tossing, he takes a snack for himself. Check out his red boots!

KYLE'S FIRST HORSEY RIDE!

We bought a rocking horse from Costco a while back and Kyle is just showing an interest in it. Every morning and after every nap we have to go for a "horsey ride" before moving on with the day. But as for real horses, he has always been a bit nervous-for a while he was down right terrified! Cried any time we'd see one! But I guess the cows have helped expose him to big animals so when we visited our friend & employee, Kathy's, horses he was right in there with the big guys. As for actually sitting on one....well, he was OK on the well-named Patience for about 30 seconds. Then he realized how high up he was and wanted down. But he went right up to the sweet baby foal, Precious, and even petted the big beautiful stallion!

BABY HORSE BY OUR HOUSE

We have a foal (baby horse) in the pasture just above ours. I think it's about a month old now. Very cute and reasonably friendly!

COWS LOVE TI LEAVES

'Nuff said..........

SATELLITE PUP

Well, we took Peanut in for his "operation"-snip, snip-and all went well, though he got fitted with a doggy "lamp shade" to keep him from scratching his cheek where they also removed a mole. He's supposed to wear the thing for 10 days which I thought would be impossible but it does not seem to bother him. He functions completely normally with it. We are also supposed to keep him "quiet"-no running, jumping, etc. for 10 days. YEAH, RIGHT! He is a 4 month old Jack Russell. I think he stayed quiet for all of an hour!