Boy do I have a “small” issue, you see from this photo, that is very clear that tooties needs her little feet trimmed, now the piggy book says once a year is good for trimming, so I am not behind on this as she is not even a year old yet! She turns one year old in June, towards the end of june, but I will need to double check to get her birthday date.
Still I can tell by looking at them, they need just a little work on them.. the real question is how? We tried to lift her and carry her like we did with kermie and it was a real fight, so it was in fact easier to let her go into her blue barrel, lift it and bring it and her in the wheelbarrol to the garden for the season, but I have got to the point, I can pet her and she hold perfectly still while doing so and that she will take a treat gently from my hand but touching her legs or feet is still a no at this time..
I have to make a choice, do I go out daily for the next weeks and work on clicker training her to let me have her feet and then slowly, ever so slowly work on a snip here and there and hope that over the next few weeks to months that I can get all four feet trimmed up, and hope that by the end of it, I have a stronger bond even if I have needed to put in many hours to get there..
Or do we do it like you would taking of a bandage.. fast, and quick.. feed her, grab her and flip, hold, listen to the piggy screams of you are killing me (so not) and have it all done in under a min per foot.. its a five min done and done.. and then I have a whole year to remind her that I bring the food, water, pats and cookies..
I know, I know, everyone is going to say.. of course set aside x amount of time per day and teach her to give her feet etc.. but gotta say that both have their strengths and their downsides..
When it comes to the big pig, its a bit easier, you just bribe her up on to the boards of her pen with cookies, one can feed her, while the other trims.. done and done, cause without a stock crate, there is no way you can make her do anything of the sort.. but the difference is that Miss Piggy is a much more calm and steady temperment.
So anyone out there got a mini-pig, and what do you do.. is it worth the time to teach the lift and give me the foot, I know that they are very smart and will remember a slight, so that play’s into it as well..
Just another Day on the Farm 
My husky was about an inch away from being completely feral when we got her, so I feel your pain: cutting her claws is a two person job. What we end up doing is giving her a big long run, to tire her out. Then one person has her do tricks to keep her mind off things with her very favourite treat (bacon) while the other person is cutting claws. It isn’t perfect but it does get the job done. Can the same be applied for Tootie? Maybe remove the food for a bit, give her a long walk, then treats will be more important then trimming hooves. (Except; not bacon. That would be weird.) The other thing I do is keep the nail trimmer close by and every now and again, I just tap it a bit against her nails, so she gets used to it. Takes only a minute a day.
Sounds like a good idea to at least try and see if I can do the training, i spent a bit of time with her this morning and got to the point that I could grip the front foot and let go and pet, and run hand down and grip the foot.. I know that backs will be hard then fronts but figure that its do able.. thanks for the impute! taking her for a walk is really hard, she is the only pig on the farm that can’t be lead around at this point with food..
I guess I should break down and consider making her a harness and teaching her to go for walks.. yet another project that I can see very useful, and need to find time to fit it in..
I had a dog who freaked when trying to trim nails and somewhere learned to distract him with peanut butter smooshed into a kong toy and smooshed on his snout, etc. He’d be working so hard on that it gave me a bit of relief to take aim with my snips.
My bet is it will take longer to fix if she has a bad first experience, so it’ll save time on the long run.