[Gpdd] ANNOUNCE Accidental new Piggyfriends

[Penny Charlesworth]

Our wonderful Rodentologists have retired and moved a long way away but,
luckily for us, Lyn, who runs Palace Piggies rescue, the recipients of the
cash raised by the calendar sale a couple of years ago, has completed the
CCT rodentology course and is able to do dental work without anaesthetic as
well as advising on many other piggy matters.

We were there yesterday ( a longer drive than it used to be but not
impossible ) and they told me the story of a lady who had been forced to
give up her piggies when her father died and she had to move back home to
look after her mother. For some reason she had to give up her pets, two
cats and two piggies and those piggies were there at Palace Piggies. Lyn
said that she would keep them for a week before rehoming them to give her
the chance to change her mind.

I well remember when I was in the same situation ( obviously without moving
as I had a young family at the time ) and I was so grateful to have my
piggies to come home to after every fraught visit to my mother but that's
another story.

So I sat and cuddled these two lovely piggies, knowing full well that Lyn
had an ulterior motive. She said that it would be hard to rehome two older
piggies, especially boars and you know what is coming next don't you? My
husband, John, was saying "you don't want to take on two older piggies"
especially as he knew that I wanted to take a couple of babes from Lyn when
I have been signed off by the hospital as my "Get well" present to myself
but I found myself asking her for a box in which to take them home. Taking
in older ones always leads to heartbreak but oh the joy that they give when
they are here.

So they are here now. They are lovely tricolour brothers and I wish that
they were younger but they will get all the love possible and all the
veggies that they can eat.

You can see them on the Palace Piggies website. They are the second pair
down, Henri and Louis. I'll keep their names as they have had them a long
time. I speak French and their names are said in the French way but I am
pronouncing them Henry and Lewis. They don't care. They just want to eat
and explore their new pen.I don't know what they lived in before and they
seemed reluctant to move out from their hidey ( an upturned stool ) so I
took it out and now they are looking around and finding the veggies that I
have scattered around.

So please welcome my new Piggyfriends.  It is Mother's Day in England today
and it is our wedding anniversary on the 8th. so these guys are more
welcome than flowers and chocs.

There will be a chance of babes or a mum with babes later on.

Penny.