Re: [PyrNet-L] Pigs and Pyrs.?

[Scott Pilkington Jr <pilkguns@InfoAve.Net>]

Well since you asked , we'll answer, although its not the story we wanted to
tell. The pig/pyr situation on Ltttles Tree's Ramble resolved itself, but
certainly not in a manner we would have preferred. We had  been following the
prescription of puting a calm pig in with Jasper in the big chicken coop and
walking him around on a leash and jerking the collar if he tried to lunge at
her. We had done this for a few days, and he seeemed to be ignoring the pig ,
so we tied him up to the kids airplane swing,( where we have always tied up
the  dogs when neccessary where  the pigs could go right around him to see
how he acted  to them in a semi loose situation, with us not around. We
turned a couple of pigs out, and  the few times they got near him, he seemed
OK with them.
Well here's where the story gets tragic. about an hour after dark, (about 3
hours total of being tied up, which he had been tied up back in the carport
wehn we first brought him home from the pound several weeks before) Rhonda,
my wife, went out to feed him and found him standing all the way up on his
tiptoes, choked to death. somehow he had just wound his way around and around
tightening up the collar. Now that I think about it, as I'm writing this, I
had run the chain under his collar and back up some, rather than atttaching
it to the D-ring, because I did not want him to have full lenght of the chain
if he charged a pig, Maybe thats what made it easier to twist up the chain,
and then rope, Cause we have always tied up dogs there with no problem.   I
don't know, it was not one of the best days of our lives.

But Kindermadchen, Jake and Bonnie Bee are doing well, they are out romping
in the snow right now, outside my computer window

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