Caramel, Gisele and Ambrée were 3 of the 5 Dolly Mixtures given to their slave, Debbie, when 5 of her beloved piggies were massacred by dogs in May 2003. The other two were Nuage and Scrabble, who also lived to be SCAMPS piggies and are featured elsewhere. Debbie feels she never really forgave them for NOT being the original 5 she had lost, and never got to know them as well as she did her other piggies. She relied on them to gain their love and companionship from one another rather than from a human, and they have always been her least "tame" piggies. They were fully weaned piggies then, so their birthday is estimated to be around mid-April - maybe they were Easter pigs?!
Caramel was the smallest, and has always seemed a bit on the edge of the group. When she was younger, she could pick their ceramic food bowl up in her teeth and lift it onto the top of a wooden nestbox without spilling any, then eat the contents in peace, undisturbed by the others! When Scarecrow went to The Bridge, she became Soulage's winter quarters companion (though they all share the same summer quarters). Caramel has had what we think is "fatty eye" since Autumn 2008, but it doesn't seem to bother her, and she seems to enjoy Soulage's company.
Ambrée is possibly the most beautiful of the three, with longer hair and symmetrical face markings, and she is the one of the three who is most sociable towards humans. In 2007 she developed a worrying white speck in her eye, which looked a bit like a hay seed, but it never seemed to bother her or grow, so has been left well alone.
Gisele is always described by her slave as being her "worst scaredy pig", because she is always the hardest to catch, but in fact when she was examined once by visiting rodentologists from Cavies Castle, they said she actually seemed fairly relaxed when being handled and the nervousness was just an act! In the summer, she does sometimes refuse to go in at bedtime, and her slave has to spend hours dismantling the run to access her and put her into the hutch! Luckily, she does have a very sweet little puppydog face, with a tiny little white star on her forehead, and this makes her so endearing that her slave can never get too cross with her!
About the pigtures:
One of the photos is a fairly old one of Ambrée, but I like it! One, as you can see, is Gisele and Caramel, and the other one shows Ambrée, Gisele, Sable, Caramel in the background and, actually, Nuage, who as you know is already at The Bridge, but does belong on the SCAMPS site as she was a SCAMP!
Born on: April 2003
Masters to: Debbie
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