Your article in: "Your Pet Pig News-Leader-12/06/02" was excellent. I'm a "new potbellied pig rescuer." (Almost a year now) and learning so many important things, about these little animals, that I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN, before I acted on "my" emotion! I have learned alot by error. But it never ceases to amaze me at how emotional Chloe is! And once I figured out she feels "the - emotions" of folks around her, it made ALL the difference in the world in her "behavior" after I knew "what" was wrong!!??!@? Now we are both more relaxed & don't stay so confused with each other. :-)

I also know now how impossible it would be to get rid of her. (Where she would belong as a pet anyway) And if this had been another time in my life, I wouldn't have been able to keep her, and it would have been really "bad for her" with zero, humane alternatives! This was all just an accident that worked out! But I SO agree with you! Any way, just thought I'd vent "at" you, cause you said alot of important things, "written" well. Things that I have been learning, but could never express it, & you did!

Thanks!

Julie Steal

Kathleen