The alarm went off this morning and I was up and rolling though chores and milking as I needed to be in town at the local tims for a nine oclock meet to pick up Kermit, now normally I would go to the farm and I do have a invite to do so, but as fate would have it, the breeder of Kermit was heading out this way and he could meet me halfway and with the price of gas, i would be a fool to say no to that..

I have been impressed with this gentleman since I found him on kijji, often when I see piglets on there I don’t think they look healthy or well feed or well bedded and I just head the other way but this gentleman had a number of pictures and I liked what I  saw, so I emailed and he was very good about replying and when I said I wanted to wait for a certain cross and a certain this or that, and wanted this in temperment, while he did tell me what he had currently for sale, he didn’t try and sell me on something else.. just put me down on the waiting list and he was excellent, when they were born, got me photos, kept in touch and let me know that he was doing well etc..

But when I watched him reach into the crate with fresh straw and pick up Kermit without a scream or a fuss, and hold him to show me, I was thrilled, when he handled his ears, feet and body showing him to me, I was even more pleased, when I checked kermit over for health, he was just what I had hoped for, and when I took him in my arms for the first time, he lifted his head and smell me and snuggled in..

He was a soft grunting talking piglet on the trip home and I was able to easily pick him up and get the photos you see below before I carried him wrapped in my jacket with his head poking out down to his new pen, and he is rooming with tootie as she is the perfect size, he was polite in his greeting and gentle and respectful to her, and they are already friends, he went looking right away for food and water, and he let me pet him a couple times and came looking for it..

To say that I am always a bit shocked at how young they are sold as weaners would be safe (miss piggy was the same) but to say I am thrilled at what I have seen so far in regards to his temperment would be very very true.

Now, I am not saying that Angelo was a bad pig and I did buy him as a almost six month old but trust me when I say, that from the moment we say him, looking at us with a tough eye in the horse trailer that had taken an hour plus to get him into, and then it took four adults to get him into his travel crate safely and we had to slide him down and unload him into his pen, it took us months of training to get him to follow and gentle to the degree that he did, but I never felt I could trust him like I do Miss Piggy..

I have high hope that by buying a weaner and training from piglet age, like I did with miss piggy that I will have a very easy going, well trained pig.. he is going to help earn his keep this spring/summer by working with tootie as the piggy plow or as we are calling them, the garden pigs.

I think this time I got a lover, instead of a fighter.. and that’s just fine with me..