Meet the Piggies: Poof

Name: Poof (because she is like a poofball with her fur sticking out in all directions, and because she likes to vanish underneath the fleece in her cage)
Age: estimated 1 year, 2 months
Weight: 1006 grams/ 2lbs, 3.5 oz
Description: tricolored Abyssinian with patches of white, cream, and lemon agouti
Favorite foods: grass, dandelion greens, corn husks, corn silks, fresh hay
Favorite activities: chowing on grass, diving in and out of tubs of hay, having her chin petted, bossing around the younger pigs

Lounging about after a meal

Story: Poof moved in with us and the slaves in October 2010. Currently the newest addition to our Collective, the first thing she did was tell us how spoiled we were. As a baby cavy, she had been abandoned in a box on the side of a freeway, then subsequently spent several months living in a rescue alongside some bunnies and a chinchilla. She didn't mind the bunnies, but you should hear her on the subject of chinchillas... the first time she went to the vet for a checkup, her ears were so full of chinchilla dust, the q-tip swab came out pitch black! Our slaves sometimes cut up empty cardboard boxes for her because her favorite toy is a tub filled with fresh hay. As soon as they put it down she immediately leaps in and begins rustling around finding choice pieces to gobble up. Sometimes she gets territorial and won't allow any of us in with her though, so whee have to wait until she has finished to have our turns. It is difficult because whee are very impatient, but thankfully the slaves give us plenty to go around!

Enjoying some hammock time while Peaches is preoccupied