[Gpdd] MISC; Little Pig - thanks

[davedave121 at aol.com]

Hi all.
Yvonne and I want to thank you guy’s for all your kind words and emails 
when we lost our precious Little Pig, they really helped in our time of 
sorrow.

It was a bolt out of the blue , only 8 hours before he died , we were 
reflecting on how lucky we had been, Toby had received the all clear 
 from nipple lump biopsy , Elvis is recovering from tummy upset, (he 
needed his molars filing ), and we had been told by our vet that Little 
Pig just had a minor ulcer in his mouth after having his molars filed, 
we felt so blessed , then it all came crashing down .

It may seam like we have a lot of medical problems with our pigs, but 
this is due to the fact that hear at PP we provide ‘forever homes’ for 
up to 20 piggy’s , most of them are x breeders and unwanted pigs, a lot 
of them are old timers and inevitably the older the piggy gets the moor 
prone they are to problems , though we do have our Furby , a lovely  7 
year old teddy boar , that apart from mites, has never had a days 
illness .

At the moment we are blessed with 18 masters, and we have not had a 
death in 17 months, so as I was saying , Little Pigs crossing really 
hit us hard .

But we had to be realistic , Katty , Little Pig’s pen mate was the main 
loser , they where an incredibly closely bonded pair, and she was 
confused , and needed a d
istraction , so that she wouldn’t pine , we 
have had pigs in the past that have died a short time after losing a 
long term pen mate, and we were no about to have this happen to Katty.

Not wanting to split up any of our established family groups ,we went 
to the rescue and adopted a 2 year old x breeder sow , and by chance 
and not choice, this sow was a Little Pig look alike , and apart from 
being a lot bigger and a sharper white, and bigger ears, and of course 
a sow,   well nearly look alike!!

We called her Windy Wendy , as the first thing she did when she was put 
into my arms was pump, I don’t know what she would have been called if 
she had wee’ed .

Anyway it was hate at first sight , they where aggressive towards each 
other , we tried different approaches , none seamed to do any good, 
they were both determined to be boss sow . So I emailed Manny the 
Boar’s Mum, and she gave me some good advice , I won’t go into detail , 
it took nearly 5 days , but Sandy’s advice did the trick. We now have 
Katty and Wendy happily housed to together .

Piggy love certainly has it’s share of worry and pain, but the pure joy 
these precious little souls bring us all makes it more than worth while 
. Once again, thanks so much you guys, for being there when we really 
needed it.

Piggy Power
Dave And Yvonne and the20herd at Piggy Palace UK

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