| Lived | January 2000 - 26 November 2005 female |
Family | One sister; Charlie, two nephews; Tefal and Ziggy and one niece; Chas |
| Liked |
Romaine and parsley
Getting all the human attention Exploring uncharted territory Shooting jets of wee at other pigs Being worshiped by all other pigs Hanging out by the fridge |
Disliked |
All music
Baths Seeing other pigs get attention Being called a ginner |
| Biography |
Born in a shed full of inbreeding pigs, Fred was lucky to escape at 10
weeks of age without getting pregnant, and she adapted well to human
contact. As top pig of the herd, Fred enjoyed respect and admiration from
all the others. Failure to provide these resulted in her bullying them until
she felt her brilliance was once again appreciated. If they had the cheek
to spend too much time getting attention from me, they were rewarded
similarly. Fred was a very energetic little pig, and very much the attention seeker. She would gallop from room to room wheeking until she had your full attention. If that didn't work she used her begging technique and would spend quarter of an hour hovering around on her back legs (obviously toppling over a few times in between), showing you how worthy of veggie treats she was. It usually worked too. Fred spent most of her years in good health. But in 2005 she developed a fast growing tumour on her face which was removed and she recovered well. However later in the year she developed several more tumours, all which would have needed to be removed because of their size or location. It was felt, especially with one of them being complicated to remove, that it wasn't fair to put her through the surgery so we let her go peacefully, and before she suffered with them. Fred really was a pig in a million and will be sorely missed. . Fred was Pet of the Day on January the 1st 2003. |
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