The Critter Sitter

Swine lovin Sunday! 🐖 These too are absolutely ridiculous sometimes. Truly like toddlers when one has something the other wants. They had been given squash scraps along with their pellets and Artie was determined to get both his and Edna’s helpings! 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️🐷

Swine lovin Sunday! 🐖😄🐽 When the only thing more important than napping is food! 😂

Swine lovin Sunday! 🐷🤗 My piggies were so generously gifted a bunch of pumpkins and they are in hog heaven! Do you have uncut and unspoiled pumpkins to get rid of? Donate them to a farm! Many animals love pumpkins and it gives them a special treat.

Swine lovin Sunday! 💖🐷 Just a cute video of Artie coming up for his supper. Miss Edna was already waiting in the barn. Like her momma, she is NEVER late when food is involved! 😂 My piggies have 5 acres to roam and graze but still get their 2 meals a day of pellets. They sure are living their best lives! 😊

Swine loving Sunday! 🐷🐽 I realized I haven’t posted my piggies for a while. We are all loving being on the farm and they are living their absolute best lives. With 5 acres to roam they can root and graze to their hearts content. 🐖🐖 A hot day calls for a cold treat! 🧊🍓🫐 A client gave me some fruit that was getting a bit mushy so I turned it into a special frozen snack for my spoiled babies. This would be great to do for dogs too!

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💖 What are your fur babies getting on this wonderful day of love? My crew all got special treats and Edna and Arty got a new tarp and tablecloth to shred and add to their nest. 💕🐶🐷🐷 I love how much their tails were wagging. They were pretty stoked about their surprises! 😄

Friday funnies! 😂 This is Reilly. Reilly loves his walks but loves finding a good stick even more. He picks one up on nearly all of our walks and carries them home with him. This was the biggest one yet. He’s always disappointed when I won’t let him take them into the house lol. He has quite the collection now by the front door. He cracks me up and is just the bestest boy. ❤️🐶

Swine lovin Sunday! 🐷🐷 Edna has finally dropped some of her attitude with Artie and they are cohabitating well. They are enjoying their straw house and Edna has been hard at work to get it ready for winter. Did you know that pigs make nests? So far Edna has incorporated blankets, a tarp, and several leafy tree branches into theirs. She also had drug in a garden hose that we use in the barn but I explained to her that we needed that back. 😂 The blue tarp is their favorite and they move it around quite a bit. They even take it out to the yard and back to the nest with them. They have been a lot of fun to watch!

Swine lovin Sunday! 😂🐷 We took advantage of yesterday’s weather and power washed my patio area and outdoor furniture which created some prime mud spots for this piggy girl. I literally just gave her a bath 2 days ago but gave up trying to keep her out of it and just let her enjoy herself. I smeared on a good layer of sunscreen for the areas she doesn’t get herself covered just for good measure. Oh this pig of mine! 🐷🙄🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Swine lovin Sunday! 🐷💗 Do pigs dream like we do? Studies suggest that they do in fact dream in a very similar way as we do. They go through a REM sleep cycle just like us. I wonder what Edna was dreaming about here? I’d guess probably food lol. At one point she even starts to raise her Mohawk which she does when she is really happy or startled.

Swine lovin Sunday! 🐷 sound on! Do pigs snore? Absolutely! Lol!

I love chickens! 😁❤️🐓 Getting to care for these beautiful girls is such a treat!

Swine loving Sunday! 🐷💗 I get asked quite often where Edna stays in my house. My answer is “she has her own room of course!” She is spoiled to her very core but I also created this space for her so she can have room to do her piggy things like root, overturn everything, rip up blankets, and throw fits. 😂 She really can be quite destructive so giving her a room of her own with her own things helps save the rest of my house. 🤦🏼‍♀️🙄

Happy Super Bowl Sunday! 😁🏈🎉 Edna and I are just excited for the food, puppy bowl, and the halftime show but she has enjoyed pushing her football around. If your team is playing I hope they win. Go sports! 😂

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. ❤️🎄 What did Santa bring you? Even though Edna is perpetually on the naughty list, her Grandma thought she still deserved some new winter clothes. 🐷🧥🧣😂 Edna may not have been thrilled with her new accessories but we all had a good laugh! 🙈 SOUND ON!

Happy Saturday! 😁 I’d like to introduce Charli, who despite having some special needs is living her best life. This beautiful and playful gal is currently in my care and has Megaesophagus. This means she was born with an enlarged and weakened esophagus which makes it difficult for her food to get where it needs to go. Pets with this condition should ideally eat sitting upright. This allows gravity to help get her food down to her stomach and lessens the chances of her aspirating food bits or liquid into her lungs. Charli is an absolute pro at getting into her chair and loves to eat. After each meal she then hangs out for awhile to give her esophagus time to properly empty into her stomach. She enjoys a good chew bone session each time to fight the boredom having to wait in her chair. Her owner’s love her very much and have her routine down to a science. They are all lucky to have each other. ☺️❤️🐾

Swine lovin Sunday! 😄🐷 One of my clients gave me a new toy for Edna. Not sure she quite knows what to do with it lol! 😂

Swine lovin Sunday! 💗🐷 Like all pets, Edna loves getting treats. With being a pig it’s important that she not only get healthy treats in moderation but that she works for them. When freely given snacks many pigs can develop bad behaviors such as nipping or pushing you or even throwing tantrums. They are also super prone to obesity. Miss Edna Ann knows there is no free ride with this pig momma!