Priscilla the Pig

This is our potbellied pig “Priscilla”.  She is was born in 1996 and is one of the best pets I have ever owned. She lives in a dog house and roams the yard keeping watch on our place while we are work.  She is friendly but it quite intimidating to strangers.  Her favorite things to eat are dandelions in the spring and acorns in the fall.  She is great at cleaning up our yard.  She doesn’t root, follows you like a dog and comes when called.   

 

Starting in July of 2008 we started her on canned pumpkin and her regular pig food.  We also add olive oil and a papaya tablet once a day.  She has been having some major digestive issues and we have found that this keeps things moving and she stays happy and running around.

Her daily routine consists of eating grass and weeds on the mound system, taking a nap in the sun near the mound, eating again, napping in the sun, eating and napping.  Around 6:00 she starts to stand in the yard like a statue and will stay there until we bring her food and put her away in her pen.  It’s a little scary to come home at 10:00 at night and she is standing there in the shadows waiting patiently for us to come home.

 

Around July she sheds her stiff hair and gets a new coat of hair.  She tends to look like a balding old man around that time of the year.  You can literally pull her hair out in clumps.  See the photo below, she is starting to shed.

 

Priscilla in 2006 on her first holiday card and in the photo that has been aired on WCCO news.
Text Box: Below is Priscilla in 1997 when I bought her after college graduation. She was about 6 months old.

Priscilla in 2007 for her second edition holiday card.

Priscilla in 2008 for her third edition holiday card.  This one was tricky. Olaf had to position the wings over her back with fishing line.  Priscilla was not going to have wings strapped to her back.

Here’s what happens when Priscilla goes one way and her wings the other!  We were laughing so hard while doing this. We did this during Halloween so it didn’t look quite as odd to our neighbors.

Priscilla in 2009 for her fourth edition holiday card.  She’s getting more and more crabby the older she gets so a bow was about all we could do with her.  This might be her final card since we did four already.  We are running out of holiday ideas.