Pigs! Arrival

We have pigs!  Our lovely neighbour dropped off our pair of piglets on his way home with a trailer load of his own and other neighbours' pigs.

His exact words as he handed me a piglet were "Here's the tame one".  He carried the other.  My piglet immediately commenced thrashing and screaming bloody murder and fighting for its little pig life to not be carried.  Put me down!  I insist! I set it down for a moment to get a better grip - instant silence.  Wow, what an introduction.  Pigs are loud!  "Earsplitting" takes on a whole new literal meaning.  That pig screamed til my ears rang.  Naturally that made the pig he was carrying scream too, and they chorused all the way to the pig yard.Pigs are also very very strong.  These are 35# pigs, and holding one feels like holding a 35# block of solid sausage shaped muscle.  His pig rested amenably in his arms and mine kicked and thrashed and threw back its head with all its strength, so that I was afraid of losing a couple teeth on its skull, and I had an awkward grip of it, around the belly and a fistful of back legs.Hooo, what a relief to drop them inside the electric fence.Clearly pleased to be unheld, and in the tall cool foliage, they just stayed, exactly where we dropped them.I left them to their own devices, checking on them every little while, and they did not move at all.I should have picked them up and deposited them in the shade of their pig palace, which is what HW did right away when he came home an hour later.They had already had a ride in an open trailer, and it was a blazing hot day.  A couple days later they had bad sunburns.  The extra hour outside probably put them over the edge.They were both painted up, numbered 5 and 7, in blue ink, a lot of which transferred to my shirt during the transfer of the pig.HW promptly pointed out that we already have a Seven, so we won't be calling them 5 and 7, and named the boy pig Rudy.So I named the girl pig Petunia.OMG, they're so cute!