[Ragamuffin]

Thank you all for the kind postings you have made since I posted this. I still miss her everyday, but as I see the remaining animals needing different levels of care that I also can't afford, I know it was the right thing to do. I have to take my own cat in for dental treatment soon, and it's expensive. The other two cats, not legally mine, also need their teeth done, but I can't afford that.

I was able to donate all her piggie things to a friend's son, who happened to find an abandoned piggie outside his apartment, thin and scared in an old cage, someone just tossed away. He rescued it, and now has an enormous cage, hidey houses, water bottles, lots and lots of blankets, towels, cloths, and everything a piggie needs. I even gave them the leftover pellets and hay. They don't have much money either, but couldn't let the poor thing sit outside in the stairwell and die. So Sallie's life mattered in some way.

Someday, I"ll get another piggie, but only from a rescue. And I'll take an older one. I won't mind. Sallie would like that. I wish she could have played with other piggies, but my sister said she fought with them really bad when she put them together. I still think she longed for another animal's interaction, because sometimes she would sleep outside her hidey house, at the end of her cage where my one cat would curl up. So the only thing seperating them was the small colorplast wall of the cage. They could see each other, but I never let the cats into her cage. She did, however, run around the bed with them and never seemed scared of them.

Anyway, thanks for all the kind messages. I know you all understand the sadness I feel as the summer gets warmer and sunnier, and I miss my piggie.
Ragamuffin