Dirty Pigs!

Owain_Moneysaver

clg86 wrote: »

That's them in their new home, they haven't had time to mess it up yet...

Pigs are actually quite clean animals and will set aside a corner of their pen for toileting.

As for mudbaths you'd pay a fortune for one in a spa.

RuthnJasper

mandragora wrote: »

We had many lovely gifts left for us, including:
two bin bags full of rubbish inside by the back door, including old, sour milk bottles;

an uncleaned ferret cage complete with stale straw and ferret droppings in the shed

doors and skirting boards chewed by three large labradors left to roam the house while they were out

a stinking, rotten carpet in the stairs that they had the cheek to ring up about a month later and try to charge us £100 for

a speedboat in the garden (as it was moved for disposal, it started to stretch it had rotted so badly)

a Harley Davidson motorbike in the gargage (collected by the neighbour who'd left it there when we let it be know we'd be selling it within the week if it was left lingering)

when we turned the water on, it started to come down the overflow pipe after 40 minutes because the ballcock had gone in the loft

a tub of brown water when we ran our first bath at the end of the first day

electric that had been cut off for non-payment of bills

ditto phone, milk and bakery supplies

electrics that needed completely rewiring

local businesses knocking at the door for the first two years at various time demanding payment of unpaid bills

and they had had three children under five at home at the time. The local story is that when the midwife saw the state of the house that the new (twin) babies were brought home to she nearly didn't let them stay.


Ah, the joys of a repossession.

That HAS to be the worst I've ever heard of! The ferret alone.... Yuck! I wonder is there's a prize somewhere for filthiest house; I've yet to find anyone who could top this! It must have been heartbreaking for you to begin with!

Hope all's better now. x

RuthnJasper

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Pigs are actually quite clean animals and will set aside a corner of their pen for toileting.

As for mudbaths you'd pay a fortune for one in a spa.

Actually, that's true. They're incredibly intelligent too. I'd MUCH rather an ACTUAL pig had lived in my house than the previous "human" incumbent...:D!

RuthnJasper

JanCee wrote: »

Sorry to hear about your trouble, but the bit about the exorcism really did make me laugh.

Hehehe, Thanks JanCee! I would put a link to the relevant page of Jasper (the dog)'s blog from the time the house was first inspected - it features a photo in full, glorious, colour of "The Stain". But I haven't had my dinner yet and I fear for the consequences if I look at it again...!

x

vet8

Yes, as a former pig keeper, I agree. Pigs have a bad name. We should start a Pig Freedom Movement or something.

RuthnJasper

BargainGalore wrote: »

Are these them, sorry couldn't resist

What a lovely couple. They seem happy.

Or is this a screenshot from the new Katie Price "reality" TV-show...?

RuthnJasper

vet8 wrote: »

Yes, as a former pig keeper, I agree. Pigs have a bad name. We should start a Pig Freedom Movement or something.

We could have the "Tamworth Two" as our mascots - I believe they're still alive and well in a petting zoo these days! Here they are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamworth_Two

I actually really like pigs (but I prefer them "on the trotter", so to speak - apart from the odd BLT sarnie now and then...)

meg72

vet8 wrote: »

Yes, as a former pig keeper, I agree. Pigs have a bad name. We should start a Pig Freedom Movement or something.

Count me in. love pigs, dont like some people though.

So sorry OP to hear of your troubles. Keep going love, if its your dream home you will surely make it everything you want it to be.

CharlieBilly

I agree its an insult to pigs

This lot are just mucky, lazy people

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Pigs are actually quite clean animals and will set aside a corner of their pen for toileting.

As for mudbaths you'd pay a fortune for one in a spa.

mandragora_2

RuthnJasper wrote: »

That HAS to be the worst I've ever heard of! The ferret alone.... Yuck! I wonder is there's a prize somewhere for filthiest house; I've yet to find anyone who could top this! It must have been heartbreaking for you to begin with!

Hope all's better now. x

All of that was a very long time ago - and as I grew up moving from house to house every year or two (services dad) and was well used to giving things a throrough clean on 'march-in' as well as 'march out' (hyper-clean mum) very little phased me. I took lots of photos at the time, it gave me a wierd sense of pride and self-respect to get stuck in with the Marigolds, a BIG bottle of bleach, hot water and some bin bags.

Luckily we didn't have to live in it straight away. We also knew we were going to have to take things right back to the basic structure of the house, as we had seen the state of it before buying. We also would never have been able to afford such a lovely big house, with so many lovely original features (well hidden under the grime) if it hadn't been for the fact that it was repossessed by the B/S.

It was the kids who'd lived there before I felt sorry for - there was no need to live like that - they were on a better income than us yet their children were brought up in squalor. Mind you, their parties were legendary, apparently, and the woman was extremely pretty. The males of the neighbourhood must have been sorely disappointed when we moved in!!