For some reason, tonight I've really been missing Frenzy, one of my original pair of pigs. She's been gone for a long time now... almost five years. She was such a cutie... a really tiny little abyssinian, red and white with a little patch of roan greyish/red on her head with ruby eyes. One of her little ears was half brown and half pink. She was very chatty and very high strung and excitable. She used to get really excited and suffer a dramatic decline of common sense... she was always the pig who would get excited and bounce into walls or get so excited to see fresh food in the cage that she would run right past the door trying to get in! She always used to try and eat my baseboards (Hadley does that too... it may be what made me think of her.) I got her and Linney as a pair of babies... Frenzy I picked right away because she was adorable. She was only about a month old and I could fit her right in the palm of my hand. She never got that big... she was under 2 lbs her whole life (next to Linney, who maxed out at just under 3, she looked like a hamster!) She was my son's 'little buddy.' He loved her a ton. She only lived to be about 20 months old... she got a big dental abscess, I didn't have a great vet at the time, and although we tried to pull her through, she just didn't make it. Now that I know a lot more I feel terrible about it. After nursing Sundae through a similar illness, I feel like had I known then what I known now she might have lived a much longer lifespan. Sigh... I still miss her. I think in the future one day I'll have to get another abyssinian and name it after her (her middle name was Popcorn because of all the time she spent jumping into walls while hyper!)
