[Gpdd] {Rainbow Bridge} Sorry so long, the passing of my friend...

[Trina Pelham]

My Tribute to my Spike, thankyou Shannon for letting me adopt him so many 
years ago. He was happy.

Hi All Fellow Friends,

I do hope all of you have had a great holiday season and are gearing up for 
the new year. I have had a sad black cloud over me unfortunatly for the last 
10 days. I had knee surgery again on the same knee for the same thing on the 
20th. Ended up in the hospital 1 day or so after surgery due to the 
pneumonia I had been fighting and then the worst happened to me the day 
before yesterday. My Spikey piggie quit eating. He had a cold and I got the 
meds and cleared him up. I awoke to the dreaded death growl yesterday, 
Friday 7 am, and I knew and burst into tears.

Alot of you know, I wear many different hats. Coordinating Tammy's Cavy 
Madness Pigpals Program, volunteering tons of time to Shannon for Cavy Care 
Inc., our shelter here in CO and a few other things. Those who know me 
personally, know I have a pretty full plate.

I met my Spike Piggie at an adoption event we were having about 3 to 4 years 
ago and I flipped for him. He is the most gentle and loving piggie and so 
much fun.  I asked Shannon if I could adopt him and she was all for it, she 
said she didn't know of another piggie to take his place of teaching the new 
babies like he did. He was so full of life and love. He taught our new males 
at the shelter how to strut their piggie stuff like a real male piggie. He 
was the substitue daddy for alot of our males born at the shelter that 
didn't have a daddy and if he had been a human man, I can say he would have 
been an awesome catch.  I had a friend, Deb, visit me from Maine and she 
fell in love with him too, over all of my other piggies. She fell asleep one 
night for a short time while he was on the bed with her and he was kind 
enough to barber her hair. We laughed for days at her new haircut and what 
her stylist was going to say when she went home. We laughed for days over 
this new hair cut and I wondered if there could be a market for piggie hair 
cuts. (Just Kidding) I adopted him when he was 3. Like all of my babies, he 
is the joy of my life. He was a little more spoiled too.

He loved to eat, fresh veggies were a must in his daily diet and when it was 
floortime, he'd run around the apartment and if I was lying on the sofa, 
he'd come to me and wheek while his front paws were up on the sofa and the 
back paws on the floor and he'd purr to be picked up. So I would pick him up 
and he smiled, maybe my imagination, but his corners of his mouth were 
turned up. When he wanted down, he'd rumble a little and if it was urgent to 
potty, he'd shake a little and I'd place him on the floor to run to his cage 
  and go in to take care of business then off to the fridge he'd go and 
wheek loudly at the door. He knew where the goods came from and how to get 
them. If he could, he would have lived in the fridge if it could have been 
modified or if there was a food dispenser.

To feed Ravi her veggies today has been just an emotional rollercoaster. We 
take the veggie platters to them and we'd say "piggie, piggie, piggies" and 
they'd wheeks for joy. Only Ravi today and we'd just break down in tears. 
Sadly, I had to help him over the bridge at 8am, Friday 30th. This has been 
the worst holiday in my life. I miss him so much and oh god it hurts.

Goodbye my dear sweetie, know that life won't be the same without your 
bright loving eyes and that nose you loved to put in my ear. The many 
piggies you helped thru your life and the joy you brought to me everyday. 
The human friends like Shannon, Deb, Craig, Tina and Tommy that you made 
laugh. You are missed my little furball  and it's lonely passing by your 
home, empty. Even Ravi loves you and knows you have left us, I just wish it 
wasn't so soon.

Love Mommy,

Trina

Very sad and in tears,
Trina M. Pelham

Cavy Care Inc.- Volunteer Adoptions Coordinator and Shelter Resident Mentor
Pigpals Coordinator
DSN Coordinator


10 years of extensive "Pigsperience" and still wheeking strong.





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