SHARED CUSTODY? NOT SO FAST!

Yesterday I wasn't feeling well and giving them their antibiotics and fresh food, water, hay, and the like (with lots of love time) was all I could manage but, boy was Bhindi out of sorts! He kept gnashing on his bars and pulling them back and forth the way

Coconut did when she wanted to run around with the boys and

couldn't if any one of them was not neutered and Edwin nicknamed

her "Black Douglas" because he always imagined her on that 

battlefield alongside "Braveheart" fighting to free Scotland.

(The same way when he came here to free my apartment

years of repressive chaos and clutter and he spoke these

unforgettable words, much the same Douglas McArthur 

did when he freed Edwin's native Homeland, the Philipinnes

of Japanese tyranny during World War II.) Edwin dramatically opened the front door much like Zorro would have, to save the day, looked around, didn't bother to even put

his backpack down: He Saw. He left. 

I said: "Where are you going? I thought you

came to help me?" (This was, after all, Presidents

Day, a day off...)

"I need a haircut."

And off he went.

Seriously.

Later, he renamed Bhindi "Mangosteen" and took

out a lot of garbage and did some cleaning then

 returned to Seattle. A grand time was had by all,

particularly MangoWHOZIT?

The point is...yesterday, Bhindi-Steen hadn't had 

any magical Vinny time and I hadn't even noticed.

Last night I remembered, placed Vinny in his

cage, the two played chase until I started falling

asleep, and Vinny went back into YumYum's

cage to sleep with him in their sleeping bag,

the one that saved their lives by keeping

them warm and by a Miracle having their

cage placed away from the others'

and so far, they are running about 

with more energy than I HAVE!

ON  MONDAY we expect to receive a generous gift of
the same pen you see on the top-left, the one shared by 
YumYum and VinnyGuinea with lots of space and no top.
 It can even be connected to the new one with a (very strong) divider (or three or ten) to keep the two males from actually
fighting while each can rub noses with Vinny when he
is in the other cage. Meanwhile, they love the configuration
of tiny, narrow mazes, large lanes, huts, boxes, cuddle cups,
hay, water, food, and lots of paw-print fleece lining their
playground and each has an abundance of time to share
with VinnyGuinea now that I understand how valuable it
is to each pig to be with him. FAVORITE OF FAVORITES:
THE ONE AND ONLY MAGIC CARROT!!!!!!!
(THANK YOU, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!) 
VINNY SCOOTS UP AND DOWN EL RAPIDO
 LIKE A SLIDING BOARD AND IT MUST
BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED!)
My nurse came today and saw them doing their
NASCAR RACE-AROUND-YUM-YUM'S-CAGE
since I had just put them in their Runabout
and she could not stop laughing!
Now that's a good nurse!
thank you for all your love...
hope to make it to Molly Movie Night if no migraine,
You have all given me a new definition of the
word "friend" to which I now aspire...


love,
to all of you