[Gpdd] The Bridge

[Ginger Fitzsimmons]

Oh, Grace! Pork Chop had a lovely life with you. I am sorry it was  
time for her to go, but it sounds like she didn't suffer too too  
much. Hugs to you and to the remaining wild herd.

-ginger
co-slave with Steve to Mr. Mike T. Pig
remembering Niles, Clover, and Butterscotch

On Dec 9, 2008, grace wrote:

> I very sadly report that Pork Chop (my first pig) has gone to the  
> Bridge.? We had to put her to sleep the Saturday after  
> Thanksgiving.? She very abruptly stopped eating and I took her to  
> the vet who couldn't find anything wrong with her so she gave me an  
> antiboitic and sent me home with critical care.? It wasn't my  
> regular vet, but I trusted her.? Pork Chop wouldn't take the  
> critical care or the medicine so I brought her back to?my regular  
> vet the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and they hospitalized her  
> because she was severely dehydrated.? They ran some tests and took  
> X-rays and said that her liver was enlarged.? By Friday the vet  
> said that we could either go to a specialist or put her to sleep.?  
> She was so weak already and they had done so much I just couldn't  
> see putting her through anything else.? The vet asked if she could  
> do an autopsy on Pork Chop for her own information and?I  
> consented.? She called me a few days later and said that her
>  liver was badly diseased and there was really nothing that could  
> have been done for her.? I miss my little girl terribly.? She was a  
> wonderful pet.? I have three other pigs that I adopted last year  
> but they are crazy.? I didn't socialize them because they were so  
> traumatized and now they won't let me pet them.? I'm going to pick  
> one of them, Rusty, and try to hold her every night and pet her  
> little by little.? If anyone has any suggestions, please let me  
> know how I can get close to them without frightening them.? They  
> have come a long way, but I still can't hold them or pet them.?  
> They used to run if I even came near the cage, but now they will  
> eat from my hands and let me touch them a tiny bit before they run  
> away.? Pork Chop would have been 5 years old sometime this month so  
> she had a pretty good run and she was a complete diva pig.? The  
> three new piggies have a large cage to themselves and the Porkster  
> had her own cage, just the way she
>  wanted it.? The vet said she was trying to eat right up until the  
> end.? It made me smile through the tears.? Thanks to all of you for  
> your advise and support.
> Grace, Oreo (at the Bridge), Porkster (at the Bridge), Gus, Babe  
> and Rusty