pig in the city
*Rescue Buddy*
Many of you will remember Scrapper, he was a forum sponsored rescue pig a couple of years ago.
He was born at the rescue, one of a litter of six, in March 2015.
The smallest baby died and Scrapper weighed in at around 56g.
His mum rejected him initially and l had a few sleepless nights hand rearing him, the support of the forum at this time was invaluable as this was my first experience of hand rearing baby pigs.
Thankfully as Scrapper got stronger his mum started to feed him, and he never looked back.
He has had a happy life with a series of girl pigs, most recently with Demelza and Bryony.
He was always first to the dinner bowl, for treats and to jump in the carry case to go on the grass. When he got back in his run he would popcorn for England!
Over the past year he had been slowly losing weight for no apparent reason. A couple of months ago he started passing blood in his urine.
He was diagnosed with a bladder stone and severe arthritis was noted on the Xray. In view of his poor health we decided not to operate and he was prescribed pain relief.
Since then he has been well, eating and playful, even going out on the grass just last week.
But he has been getting weaker over the past 2 days and was struggling to eat normally, so l took him to be put to sleep today.
Rest in peace little man, you fought for life at the beginning and at the end.
Goodbye Scrapper x
He was born at the rescue, one of a litter of six, in March 2015.
The smallest baby died and Scrapper weighed in at around 56g.
His mum rejected him initially and l had a few sleepless nights hand rearing him, the support of the forum at this time was invaluable as this was my first experience of hand rearing baby pigs.
Thankfully as Scrapper got stronger his mum started to feed him, and he never looked back.
He has had a happy life with a series of girl pigs, most recently with Demelza and Bryony.
He was always first to the dinner bowl, for treats and to jump in the carry case to go on the grass. When he got back in his run he would popcorn for England!
Over the past year he had been slowly losing weight for no apparent reason. A couple of months ago he started passing blood in his urine.
He was diagnosed with a bladder stone and severe arthritis was noted on the Xray. In view of his poor health we decided not to operate and he was prescribed pain relief.
Since then he has been well, eating and playful, even going out on the grass just last week.
But he has been getting weaker over the past 2 days and was struggling to eat normally, so l took him to be put to sleep today.
Rest in peace little man, you fought for life at the beginning and at the end.
Goodbye Scrapper x
keep popcorning in the sky little Scrapper 
x
