I locked up all the feed and opened the gates for Tima and Tane to go for a walk yesterday. Tima and Tane are an old married couple (both kunekune pigs) who have lived together for years. He has bad legs and she is a nosy fat Mama. 
Tima took off like a shot and ran straight up to the porch, looking in all the doors, she overturned all the buckets, she tried on all the boots, then trotted back down the steps and ran around the shed to see if there was a door open there.
It was like the Turtle and the Hare. Tima trotting about sticking her nose into everything and Tane very, very slowly and very, very surely walking out the gate, his crippled leg held above the ground, his other bad leg held out like a straight crutch, but he continued around the drive, past the shed, across the lawn and fetched up in his summer pen, where he spent the afternoon sleeping in the sunny straw left over there.
Tima found him in the summer house later in the day and they both walked back to the barn together.
By milking time they were tucked up, fast asleep in the deep straw in their sun-room in the barn. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page, past the comments and you will see them sleeping in the instagram image). Very cosy. Very cute. It was a very slow walk for Tane dragging his bad legs behind him but he seemed more doggard and determined than usual yesterday and when he was hurrying to keep up with Tima he even seemed to gain a rhythm to his strange gait.
He takes his pills like a trooper. He sees me coming every morning at the same time, sits down throws his great head back and opens his mouth wide showing off his teeth and tusks. All I do is throw the pills into his big wide mouth frog mouth and he swallows them without any problem. He does not care as long as there is apple going into his mouth straight after-wards.
I could throw rocks into that big mouth and he would chew them up.
I hope you have a great day,
Love celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
35 responses to “Tane goes for a walk”
Ahh what a couple! I can see a white mop cap on Tima and a cloth cap on Tane. 😂
They are darling. Poster children for lifelong love and monogamy. If humans couples could carry on so peaceably…
Though if Tima sees Tane eating something she wants she RAMS him with her head, knocks him off his perch, then steals his food. Very Sweet! c
Well…sometimes it IS necessary!
[D] I can imagine this story as it would be written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter!
I love this idea about Tima and Tane being the characters in a children’s story!!! It would be a wonderful story indeed!
Celi, yet another plan to add to your To – Do list! 😉 😉 😉
How sweet! Tima and Tane’s Day Out. I still get a good chuckle thinking about Tima when she was little, wreaking havoc in your kitchen. Great characters.
Bless his sweet little heart. Makes me smile. Good morning, c, and happy wishes to the farmy.
What sweet little pigs 🙂
Love these two 🙂 Laura
Gorgeous couple! Wish I could get pills into my pups so easily 😀
Next time train them as pups to take pills. I know it is a long way to think ahead but in the end it is incredibly useful. BooBoo had such training thank god. c
What a sweet couple. They could be in a children’s book.
What a sweet couple. Tima could have a small hat with a flower on it and one of the carpet bag style purses! An image straight out of the 40’s. Tane of course would have a nice tweed jacket, crisp white shirt and hat on.
That Tane is a Good Pig. No complaining, no whinging, takes his medicine like a man. He epitomises the catchphrase of my father’s generation: “mustn’t grumble…”. He just gets on with it.
Awww . . . what an amicable couple they are.
In my minds eye, I just can’t picture how he gets along. Could you maybe take some video of him and post it? Bless his sweet heart!
I cannot post video from my phone to this computer anymore – are you on instagram?
I don’t have my own instagram account but I can view yours 🙂
I’m glad they enjoyed their day. And that Tane persevered despite the pain. It says a lot about him.
Love these two!