Agoraphobic piglets?

Just when you think you know what piglets are like and how they are going to behave, along comes a bunch which proves you're wrong.....

Delila's litter - born on 30th September - are nearly three weeks old. They're nice piglets; perfectly healthy and strong and good looking; but two of them just don't want to leave their ark. Yesterday we had visitors and - naturally - they wanted to see all the piglets. Well - these two would not be tempted out. I had to get in the ark with them and lift them out into the Big Wide World. And then one of them squeaked so much that Delila forgot all about the titbits which had, thus far, distracted her and came over all in a tizzy to remonstrate with me..... And then she took them all back indoors to suckle them and restore their peace of mind..... or something.....

It's all the more odd because the other four piglets are now happily scampering out and about with Mum much of the day and squeezing under the fence to go visit with Auntie Mavis and Auntie Maud.... just like normal piglets really.

Perhaps the other two will join them in the next few days...... but the weather is not getting any warmer so the world will not be any more welcoming...... we'll just have to wait and see..... Agoraphobic Piglets? Who'd have thought it!!!