Wednesday, June 11, 2008

I'm in love with Cinderella


I am truly madly deeply in love. I have been wanting to have a potbelly pig as a pet but, I am scared of not giving it enough time. I want to name my pig....“Mozzarella”. Ain't it cute? When I saw Cinderella in Telegraph, my heart fluttered in joy. I want to have a mysophobic piggie too. I will custom design him two pairs of chic red rubber boots with letter holograms on the sides.


Here's Cinderella's article in Telegraph.co.uk


Meet Cinderella, Pig in Boots

By Urmee Khan

Last Updated: 4:32PM BST 10/06/2008

Cinderella, a six-week-old saddleback pig has conquered her fear of walking in mud with the help of a pair of bespoke wellies.

After her birth, the piglet refused to join her brothers and sisters as they splashed in the muck because she suffers with mysophobia - a fear of dirt.

But now the pig has overcome her fears with a pair of green boots made of rubber - which have been created with no footwell so that her trotters slip straight in.

Former pig farmers Debbie and Andrew Keeble, who run a farm near Bedale North Yorkshire, were initially baffled by their piglets behaviour.

Debbie Keeble, 40, said: "It was the strangest thing. When the batch ventured away from their mother, Cinders just stood at the edge of her sty shaking while the others explored.

"We thought it was just that she didn't want to leave the sty or the sow but we soon noticed if we moved them to where there wasn't any mud, she happily left it and roamed around without any nonsense.

Her husband, Andrew, 42, added: "We scratched our heads a bit but then we thought, we wouldn't go in the mud bare-footed, so why not try some wellies?"

Cinderella has now been chosen to front a campaign by the couple to support the plight of pig farmers.

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