[Lydia]

Now re homed.

[landroverroy]

Lydia please don't offer any animals that you care about free to a good home. You will attract people that just want a freeby that they don't value, or a load of cheap sausages. I've done it myself - very friendly sow brought up as a pet on an allotment but grew far too big and ate a fortune in food and offered free to a good home. I kept her for a few weeks so I could tell the previous owners she was happy (which she was) and she made delicious sausages. Nobody was ever going to keep a large pig like that as a pet so I reckoned I might as well have her as the next person. At least her last few weeks were happy and I took her to the abattoir myself so know how she ended up.


You would be better asking the market price for these and sell possibly to someone for breeding. At 7 months old they are not fully grown. There are not many people that will have the facilities or the space to keep 3 full sized kune kunes as pets. I have the room to take them and a trailer to collect, but my freezer is still full of the last ones I was given.
But good luck anyway.  [size=78%]   [/size]

[Marches Farmer]

When you say your dogs haven't accepted them, in what way?  If they're aggressive towards the KK's then you, as leader of the pack, need to make it quite clear that's not acceptable behaviour - put on your fiercest shouty voice and go for it.  If the dogs are nervous then you can keep them on a lead and make being near the KK's a time when they get lots of fuss and a dog treat.

[laurelrus]

Hi Lydia, I've sent you a PM

[harmony]

You need to de sensitize the dogs to the situation. Shouting may only make them worse by "exciting" the situation further.  Putting them on a lead can also do the same if you have dogs that don't walk properly on a lead and understand about having a loose lead.


If you can't provide a safe, stress free place for your pigs you are right to re home but be aware of the points already raised. The Kune Kune Society might be able to help. Good luck