[Gpdd] RAINBOW BRIDGE Three Piggyfriends Part Two

[Penny Charlesworth]

After losing Gulliver, Toffee and Cadbury both became ill with cancer.

Toffee was a very plump little Rex and lived with her best friend, Crystal. Such round little ladies became known as the Dumplings.

Here they are. Toffee is on the right.

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They arrived together and were companions for my late Pansy, when she became the last of her group. They cheered her up immensely in her old age.

Crystal, in turn, was mourning the loss of her friend. They always slept close together, resembling one very large porker and would put their paws up the side of their pen shouting for yet more food. New little piggy, Pandora has done a lot to make Crystal a happy piggy once again.

Not long after, Cadbury became sick. He was one of a family of five rescued from a truly horrible environment. His mother is Sapphire. His brothers, Rye and Bramley and his father, Barley all became LAPS pigs after an inauspicious start but Cadbury was always smaller than the others. Here he is with Bramley in his LAPS pigture.

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I have told their story before and it is in the archives but here is a shortened version.

All five were living together in a filthy, cramped hutch in a garage and it was a miracle that Sapphire was not pregnant again by one of them. I was able to bring Sapphire, Barley and Rye home but the owners insisted on keeping the other two. Luckily, it was not long before they had their minds changed by their grandmother, who called me and asked if I could take the other two. So Bramley and Cadbury came home too. With lots of care, meds and good food, their coats all regrew and all five became happy Piggyfriends.

So farewell, Toffee and Cadbury, always remembered and always loved.

With a large herd of piggies there are always going to be sad times but new piggies are waiting out there for a loving home and this sad post ends on a bright note as a tiny boar needs somewhere to live and little Dorian needs a small playmate so I am waiting on a phone call to tell me that a new Piggyfriend is ready to be collected.

Thank you one and all for reading about my lost Piggyfriends, who will be waiting at the Rainbow Bridge when my turn comes.

Penny.