July 31st

Out hunting tourists

After a lovely breakfast under the neighbours hazelnuts fields Big Daddy was crossing the road to get home in time for his pre-lunch nap, when two German tourist came walking down the road in his direction. Strangely enough the sight of a pig crossing the road was somewhat surprising for the tourist, but in stead of the normal “Oh, isn’t he beautiful, can I touch him?” sounds that normally come out of these kind of humans mouths, they didn’t say anything. They didn’t move either, they stood perfectly still like they were completely frozen. Really, that is not a good look for most people, neither for human tourist walking slowly around in brand new jogging equipment. Off course Big Daddy couldn’t be bothered with them, but the Sheppard could. She thought it best to let them know that with their strange behaviour (not at once saying; “OOOH What a beautiful looking dog”) it was best to give them and warning and let them know they were not welcome at her beloved home. So she did. Unfortunately the tourist didn’t understand dog, neither Italian nor English. Our human had in the end to collect them and guide them past 2 rather bored dogs. Why the tourists sounded angry is beyond us. If you can’t handle the local welcome in the countryside, PLEASE stay in the city!

Big Daddy has afterwards been heard mumbling: “What did they mean with wild boar? I am an incredible good looking pig for heavens sake!”

Photo: Dangerous looking pigs(/wild boars), dangerous looking (guard)dog. 

 

New citizen

We are thrilled to announce that a new citizen has hatched. A peachick did finally leave the egg, and is currently under the safe wings of Miss M. This is our first peacock citizen, and we could only been happier if several eggs had hatched. Not to worry, it is always next year.

The Peachick say:”PIIIIIIIIIP”

 

Pruning

A certain fig tree has lately been growing completely wild. New fig leaves where popping out everywhere. Therefore two experts were called upon to prune the tree back to a normal size. Luckily the two experts love their work, and have promised to not leave the tree before the job is completely done.

Mike say: “This is a very important job, and they could not have called for better experts than us.”

 

The disco queen

Not that the cats never stop partying, but now we are entering the natural disco season. Seniora was proud to open the wild disco season, and was seen hitting the dance floor dressed up with several blinking lights. Off course being a retired cat, she had the fireflies doing the dancing while she rested comfortable at the middle of the floor.

Seniora says: “Ah, the firefly disco…. Makes me feel so young again.”

Weather forecast

HOT

The dogs recommend you to stay cool, as if.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

To tourists

It is not recommended walking around slowly in brand new jogging gear. It makes you look silly.

To tourists

It is not recommended to mistake a pig for a wild boar. It might not be true, but it does give the expression that you are actually rather stupid.

To tourists

Remember, you are the one who visits. Try to understand the local custom, and if you don’t remember, yelling at the locals is always considered rude.

  

July 21st

Missing catflap

It was a shock to realize that what we had thought was a nice quit night, not at all had been a nice quit night.

While somebody had been having a tiny nap, somebody had actually stolen our catflap. The investigators have been working around the clock trying to find the perpetrator, but the amount of suspect is surprisingly high so it is a time consuming work.

The Cabbit say: “Honestly, I don’t get the problem at all. Who needs that silly flap anyway? This solution works much better for an angoracat as myself.”

 

Summersnow

The inhabitants of a tiny village were surprised by a very local snow blizzard in the middle of July. This is not at all normal behaviour for the local weather in July, and especially not when it is 30 degrees outside. While somebody started to scream up about the environmental change to the area, somebody else tracked the snow back to the Cabbit, who was paying a visit to his furdresser, as his fur had started to be a bit long around the eyes.

Big Daddy say: “As I have said before, and will be saying again, fur is overrated!”

 

At the poolside

Today the Goosepool was reopened after some unfortunate weather damage last weekend. Two incredible happy geese have been observed continuously in the pool thereafter and are planning to continue the bath forever or at least until dinnertime.

Mr Goose say: “Let’s jump right in!” 

 

Welcome

Last morning one of the hen thought she had been the victim of a serious crime. Somebody had stolen her beloved egg, and the thief was still there. The very upset hen refused to re-enter the henhouse until the ugly cruel thief had been removed from the scene of the crime. The new not so tiny citizen has now moved in with another hen. The new mother and the new chick is both doing well and enjoying each others company.

The Spokeshen say: “Unfortunately the broody hen got some serious depression when she saw what had become of her egg. This is not normal, but she has been taken care of, just like the chicken was. They are all doing fine!”

 

Is there a world out there?

Ugly rumours have it that we the citizens are not aware of the world outside out beloved world. This is as you can see complete rubbish. We check the news on regular basis, but to be honest, the world out there rarely or ever has anything good on offer.

Big Daddy say: “I just love my quality time with a newspaper. OK, so I might get carried away sometimes, and read the paper to bits, but that is just because I am after all such a caring and engaged pig.”

Number of eggs today: Not too many

Weather forecast

After a long discussion we have decided that those white spots in the horizon might just very well be clouds, but from this distance is it hard to tell for sure.

The dogs recommend you to stay cool!

ANNOUNCEMENT

 

THANK YOU

We would like to thank our dear Sub-Human Superiour Elite for building our great new pool.

 

Hit

Professional hit man needed to take out this cruel and evil enemy of our organization.

Ref: The society of long sharp claws

May 28th

 

The Flowerbuds

Miss Flowers 4 egg has hatched, and we are proud to tell you that all the Flowerbuds are doing great. It is off course the most beautiful chicken anybody has ever seen, and Miss Flower takes her new role as a mother very serious indeed. Off course somebody might say she is a little overprotective, so she doesn’t like to take them out on the common. Still we did manage to persuade her to let us take their photos. After that, it was straight back in to the barn for the next generation of flowers.

Miss Flower say: “Now, I am only going to say this once, step away from my children!”

 

Bath!

The poor poor Seniora was today victim of a hideous crime no cat should have to endure. She was dumped into the bathtub, while it was filled with water, and from there it got worse. Her beautiful and only partly filled up with earth, dust and other valuable skin product, was then massaged with shampoo! The torture seemed to go on for ever. Other frighten cats was seen evacuating the house faster than a car chasing dog, faring for the well being of their perfect precious fur. After what can only be described as ages, the Seniora had her once so beautiful fur rinsed out with the shower attachment!

Seniora was not available for comment as she was to busy emptying the king size food bowl who magically appeared in front of the somewhat wet but for once clean lady. 

Naked pig?

The time of the year has arrived. Dj sQil needs a new wardrobe, and has started to work himself out of the old one. This might take some time, and in the meantime, loose bristles can be observed flying around in his vicinity.

Big Daddy say: “Somebody needs to bye a new wardrobe earlier than others due to the lack of quality and beautiness. Luckily I belong to the group of others!”

 

Some guests are more equal than others

While in a hurry to get home, Mr Purr was taking the short cut over the shed roof, when something long fast and hissing occurred in front of him just before he was to leap over to the rustico. The guest who had been sunbathing on the end of the roof lost his balance and fell simply fell of. The next thing he knew, he was looking up at Beauty, Sheppard and off course Mr. Purr. Very shortly thereafter they were all gone, but angry yelling could be heard from the inside of the car. Mr Snake thought this was a very unfriendly place to be, and decided to retreat to more promising areas. He was last seen hiding in the safety of the woodshed.

The Model say: “Here at Maifrin we pride ourselves that all guests are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

Number off eggs: 7 

 

Weather Forecast

After several days with 32̊c you should think a cloudy day weren’t too bad. Still it is only the sun that has left and it has been replaced with a very hot moist instead.

The Dog recommend you to stay cool literally, preferable in your bed. 

Announcement

 

Property for sale

Nice cosy houses for sale. Habitable immediately, but some upgrading is to be done. This is truly a wonderful prospect with a lot of possibilities for the right individual.

Ref: Miss Flower

Upcoming hatch

Miss Flower has now been laying on the eggs for almost 3 weeks, so everybody here at Maifrin is now looking forward for the arrival of the new citizens to arrive. Todays eggcheck showed that all 4 eggs were shaking and moving as normal in this late eggnency, but that still isn’t a complete guaranty for a perfect hatch. Miss Flower is a diligent mother though, so if it was only up to here, we would have nothing to worry about.

D’Oro say: “Please keep all claws and paws cross. Oh I can’t wait to see the little ones!”

Cabbit on the hunt

Being a cat trapped in the body of a rabbit sometimes give you a bit of trouble, but not all the time. So who is to say that a vegan can’t hunt and enjoy its fresh kill just because of this unfortunate body mix up? Somebody may say silly thing like that, but luckily the cabbit isn’t listening. Instead everyday he speed jump around the house, were he stalks out one delicious plant after the other. Then, with out any warning, he jumps them. The impacts normally finish them off, if not he wrestle them to the ground, and that takes care of the business. The happy Cabbit is than only left to eat the fruit of his labour.

The Cabbit say: “I like my food fresh!” 

Catel

The Modell has again heard from his good mate “The Englishman from the wrong side of the valley who has to live with that awful big black so called dog thing”-cat. This time he had the most awful news. His staff humans have had a mutiny, and they will be leaving the poor poor chap to fend for himself for several days. As you can all imagine, he was devastated! Luckily for him the Model is also running a small but oh so luxurious catel, and being the pal he is, he has reserved the very best suit for his friend in his time of trouble.

The Sheppard say: “I wanted to let Big Huge stay here as well, but the Hen Department put dawn their claws and vetoed it! Big Huge will instead have to go to the dogstel, poor chap.”

 

Official nest boxes

Maifrin now have 14 official nest boxes for the Hen Department. Until very recently we only had 12, but the Dark Ladies weren’t to happy about the 12 first one, and after what that can only be described as the most thorough nest box inspection in the history, they went and got them self a couple of new ones. Apparently these new ones are up to their standards, for now.

 Falcon say: “Honestly I thought my nest box was quit good, but I have to give it to the Dark Ladies, they know what they are talking about. Now I am putting my eggs down in the new nest box.”

 

Light (&) thunder

Last evening the weather thought about getting nasty. In the far distance you could just about hear some thunder, and if you had run fast enough, you might have managed to be hit by several raindrops. Still nobody here at Maifrin run that fast. The only lightning that was observed was that of the Sheppard, leaping for the door and hiding beside the bed. (She is too big to get underneath it). Beauty on the other paw, went for his normal evening walk with the cats.

Beauty say: “Yes that walk was very scary indeed, as the Model and the Primadonna started to quarrel.”

Number off eggs today: So fare 1, but it still early hours. 

Weather forecast

The sun has returned after a short but unwelcome break.

The dogs recommend you to get out of your hiding and start living again.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Personal add

Tiny pig is in search of lonely apples, bananas and oranges. To be honest they don’t have to be lonely.

Ref: Lonely tummy

May 12th

Collars

The Sheppard has yet again ruined her collar, and she simply refuse to tell us show she does it. There were no way around it, she needed a new one. Strangely enough the new one she ordered just happened to be the exact same colour and brand as the one Beauty got some weeks earlier. The only difference was that this was a tad wider, due to the fact that the Sheppards neck is somewhat huge (according to Beauty).

The Sheppard say: “It is not like I ruin them on purpose you know, not at all, but if that Beauty got a new one, honestly so should I!”

Clawicyre

Today it was time for Senioras bimonthly clawicyre. As we all know Seniora retired after she was hit by a stroke, and even though she has healed almost perfectly, well a couple of issue is still unsolved, and one of them is the lack of proper claw management. And have you ever tried to leave the bed when ten claws are stuck in the sheets? This is not a pleasant experience indeed. Therefore, these days Seniora pop by the clawicurist about almost every second month on the dot. There she got 2 mm of claw nicely cut off, and is yet againfree to leave the bed whenever she wants, which to be frankly is not that often at all.

Seniora say: “Off course I could do it myself, but my body has become somewhat mushy after that silly stroke, so I just think I disserve to be spoiled when I can.”

Ladies of the evening

After the two lovely maran hens moved in with the Hen Department it shows that they literally have a dark side (feathers not included, which also happens to be rather on the dark side). They might not be ladies of the night, but they for sure are ladies of the evening. While the other hens and the occasional rooster, start looking for the perches already at 7 pm, the dark ladies do not want to hear anything of the sorts. They do go on the perches just after 9 pm, but that is just because they are persuaded to do so.

The Dark Ladies say: “Honestly, what is it with this early perch time? There are greens to be eaten, and well, more greens to be eaten.”

 The Egg thief

Lately a mysterious thief has been known to occasional steel innocent eggs around the property. Last night the thief was out on his bad mission again, and the poor freshly laid egg of Mrs. Goose was the victim. The egg has vanished, but nobody has seen a thing, not a thing. The C.S.I team has been working hard the whole morning, but they struggled from an overdose of different DNA.

Mr. Goose say: “Shall this never end? Those poor innocent eggs!”

Number off eggs today: Unknown due to a thieving bastard and some hens need to play hide and seek.

Weather forecast!

Still lovely, hot and wonderful.

The dogs recommend you to hit the deck and get your tummy rubbed.

Announcements

Private Eye

Private eye is needed to catch that egg thieving bastard.

Ref: Egg layers united

Security

A security company is needed to install a proper high quality security system to guard every nest box on the property. 

Ref: Egg layers unites