This morning at breakfast we could hear these pigs squealing incredibly loudly as they were being tied up to be shipped to a village. The second photo is of them being loaded into the plane on a wooden frame. They later had to be unloaded again as the flight was cancelled. Pigs are quite regularly shipped out to villages where pig raising is an important part of the economy. If they don't get new pigs every now and then there is too much interbreeding happening. Also people from villages will bring their pigs to Sentani to sell at the market. The other day one of the pilots was flying a live pig, which costs a lot more to ship than a dead one, and it died in flight. It turns out that the snout had been tied too tightly and it suffocated. Thankfully, the owner of the pig, who was also on board was not angry about it. It was he, after all, who had supervised the tying up of the animal.
Tonight we had a new friend come by for a visit. This lovely little tree frog has been hanging around in front of our house this evening.
Brynnie, it turns out, has an ear infection and yesterday we started her on antibiotics and she is doing better now but still not 100%. I also took her to the doctor today to see if we can try something else to get rid of her skin bacteria. So we're trying a different medicine for that. Hopefully it does the trick.
2 comments:
Quite the way to ship pigs...but then I guess it's the only way. Wouldn't be good to get too many pigs running around in a plane...could be quite the flight!!
Good to hear that Brynnie is getting better and you figured out what it was...ouch ear infections are just sooo painful. Hopefully your little pookie is smiling again soon.
Love you all always:)
Sotty I haven't reacted to youse but had a hard time getting on.Do read up on youse everyday tho' and am happy to hear all is well and verry interesting.
Luv youse ALL and praying for youse.
Aunt Frieda
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