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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: little blue on November 02, 2011, 10:27:28 pm

Title: RIP Murphy
Post by: little blue on November 02, 2011, 10:27:28 pm
Rest in Peace Murphy, the Daddy Kunekune here.
The softest, daftest, loveliest boy you could ever imagine, and sooo handsome!

The cancer finally got to hurting, so the vet with the injections came .... sleep well my boy.
love you
 :-*    :pig:
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: ambriel on November 02, 2011, 10:44:46 pm
Very sorry to read that, but ultimately the greatest trust our animals put in us - knowing when to call in the vet.

Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: manian on November 03, 2011, 06:40:13 am
ahh
poor murphy,
take care both of you
 :bouquet:
Mx
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: Sylvia on November 03, 2011, 07:40:13 am
Poor old you. I love my Kunes as well as I love my dogs so realise how you must be feeling :bouquet:
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: plumseverywhere on November 03, 2011, 08:03:14 am
Really sorry  :(  He had a good life with you and I love Ambriel's words, its so true  :bouquet:
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: HappyHippy on November 03, 2011, 08:08:36 am
Oh Ruth  :'( :'( :'(
I know what you're going through mrs - we lost our 'daddy' boar in August this year (although we've got his last litter of piglets due in the next week) There aren't words to make you feel any better, but I'm thinking about you all  :-*
Keep your chin up xxxxx
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: Rosemary on November 03, 2011, 08:51:58 am
 :bouquet:
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: Cinderhills on November 03, 2011, 08:59:49 am
I am sorry.  It must be heartbreaking.  :'(
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: Fowgill Farm on November 03, 2011, 09:15:28 am
Thinking of you Little Blue, lost our Delia this summer and cried for England, so know how you feel.
Mandy  :bouquet: :pig:
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: josiec on November 03, 2011, 09:18:43 am
any advice on sickly hen wi diarheoa plzzz ,urgent ,just registered with u this morn,thx ,josie
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: pikilily on November 03, 2011, 09:29:46 am
 :bouquet: :bouquet: :bouquet: :'( :'( :'( :gloomy: :gloomy:
ET x
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: melodrama on November 03, 2011, 09:51:16 am
Its always hard to lose one and my thoughts are with you x
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: Blinkers on November 03, 2011, 10:31:27 am
Awwww....so,so sorry, but what a wonderful life he's had with you.  Sleep well Murphy  :bouquet: :pig:
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: little blue on November 03, 2011, 11:01:15 am
thanks all,
the "man with the van" has just taken him, so he's really gone now. :(

have come for a cuppa and a good cry...
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: Roxy on November 04, 2011, 09:53:39 pm
So sorry Little Blue.  I was lucky enough to meet Murphy, and he was a lovely boy  .....and of course he was Daddy to our two girls!!

I still giggle at the thought of you trying to persuade Murphy to  move over the garden to visit the ladies .....wasn't easy moving him, was it!!!

I know you will miss him ....but he had a lovely home with you, and thats the important thing to remember,  he had a happy life!!!
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: little blue on November 04, 2011, 09:58:58 pm
 yes Murph's the Daddy!
he was always as happy as the proverbial pig in muck ....  except when we were trying to shift him across the garden!
thanks for reminding me and making me smile  :)
  And that day he lifted the fence up to let the girls out on the rampage  :D
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: Roxy on November 08, 2011, 12:15:45 am
Oh yes - the fence episode.  The neighbours never found out?

You could be filmed as the Good Life at your place.  Do you have a neighbour who could play Margo!!!
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: little blue on November 08, 2011, 06:59:19 pm
No and yes!
When the females rabbits got out and she caught me herding Smokey back under the fence (their fault it was bent - pushed it out with his canoes!) she said something about them "getting out last time & eating all the vegetables" .... that definitely wasn't a rabbit - It was Mildred the pig!!

She was out the other day - for some reason they have to go into the garden to use the phone?! - and was heard to say "the view is lovely... apart from that bit there" - meaning our pigs.
Well, don't stand in that particular part of the upstairs window just to stare at them then, or move your patio set next to where the pigs are (on the other side of the fence) then complain about them!
The pigs just love people - so when they hear them, they want to say hello!
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: Helencus on November 08, 2011, 08:08:14 pm
So sorry to hear LB.  :bouquet:
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: little blue on November 08, 2011, 08:14:57 pm
thanks Helen.
Nice to "see" you back - hope all is well with you?
:)
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: Roxy on November 09, 2011, 10:00:28 am
Perhaps your neighbour would prefer to live in a town overlooking a factory chimney maybe - or how about next to a supermarket.  She should count herself lucky  to be looking at pigs etc.!!

Just smiling at her veg been eaten - surely the size of the footmarks showed it must have been one massive rabbit :)  OMG imagine had she come home and actually caught Mildred in the act of eating the veg .......

I have moaning neighbours here - some moan about the horses looking over their fence, others moan about the pigs, and they are across the lane.  Converted barn, townies, and we were here first, so hard luck.  Another neighbour has a fixation about seeing cat poo near where he parks his car (yes, must be MY cats!)  Yesterday, he asked if we were opening a farm machinery business - being sarcastic.  We have a couple of trailers and the Range Rover parked in the field. Due to moving, we have no where else to park them.  He knows this, but I explained yet again.
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: Helencus on November 09, 2011, 01:52:45 pm
All good thanks L B just reaLly busy workwise. My Boris went Sunday lovely new home with 4 sows so plenty of work, great for him but I was sad to let him go. Last 5 gilts going this Saturday. Will be just Kim and Aggie left as pet pigs.. Sad but too costly to carry on breeding.
Title: Re: RIP Murphy
Post by: little blue on November 09, 2011, 06:15:11 pm
Ah, sorry to hear that Helen ... but a good if hard decision
:)