On Sunday Goldie managed to spend a couple of hours out in the run with the group she has been visiting for small amounts of time during the wheek.
However outside and indoors in a pen are 2 different places so when they were brought in Goldie went back into a C+C divide that was next to the group’s pen. Goldie insisted on trying to break in to be with them so when she had given up and moved over to her hay I cut the cable ties and left the rest to Goldie. In no time Goldie had ‘broken’ into the group’s pen and was busy eating their food.
No one was suprised to see her and she didn’t have that need to harass them that had been obvious before. After ‘hanging around’ in the shed for a while to make sure everything was OK I left them to it with just a final late night check.
Currently Goldie is living with the group and learning to socialise again, there is no mutual grooming going on yet and that’s an important step forward, but she is mixing with them.
The next step will be to socialise her with rescue pigs and get her ready for rehoming but she needs to spend a while in this set up first before that can happen.
Karen
