[Gpdd] Care--Georgie needs a home

[Amy]

Hi all:

Forgive me if this post turns out to be long, but it's hard for me to 
write and has taken me 3 months to get the courage up to do so.

My spunky little Curious George needs a home.  Even though he was 
forced to learn to be an independent little guy because of being on his 
own for so long before I got him, he LOVED his companion of a couple of 
years, Anthony.  Unfortunately, sweet Anthony died in May, and George 
has been on his own again since then.  I was very lucky that Anthony 
passed while under the loving care of his guardian angel, Fran, who 
gave him his own burial spot in her yard under a lovely geranium.  I 
will always be grateful to her for her attentive ministrations during 
Anthony's last days.

The obvious solution for George,  would be to get him another 
companion.  But I'm not in a position to do that right now.  So what 
I'm hoping is  to find him someone who could either give him a 
situation in which he's in the company of other pigs, or could dote on 
him and spoil him rotten. or both!

He's probably about 3 or 4, and is what I think is called an American 
Crested:  he's a solid lilac/grey color, with a cute white cowlick on 
his forehead, and garnet-colored eyes.  He's somewhat of a "special 
needs" pig, in the sense that he's a little nipper when you cut his 
nails, he's skittish around people he doesn't know, and he's very 
snuggly but for only short periods.  When I first got him he didn't 
tolerate being held at all, and now he enjoys it.  So with someone who 
spent a lot of time with him and was gentle with him, I think he'd get 
even snugglier.  He has some really funny habits, like when he roars 
around the perimeters of his cage, and does figure eights around his 
two pigloos.  He reminds me if I feed him too late, and he has definite 
likes and dislikes in terms of his veggies!

I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, and would be willing to travel 
within a few hours to help transport him.  He comes with his own 
Coroplast/Creative Cubes cage, should someone want it, and of course, 
food bowl, water bottle, and any food, hay, and bedding that I have on 
hand.

You can contact me directly if you need any more information or would 
like to discuss this.

Thanks to all of you.  I really want to find a good home for my boy.

Amy