I have been blessed that Carys has lived to celebrate her 6th adoption anniversary in September despite her arthritis and her increasing kidney failure. The lure of the Rainbow Bridge sadly became too strong last week when she made her journey right in the thickest and thorniest part of our big forum revamp, so I had to do that on not a lot of sleep and by compartmentalising really hard. That is why I have taken a bit longer than normal to post about a loss.
It has all come back up earlier this week, and since Carys has touched the lives of so many Tribe piggies - many of them part of my massive wodge of 22 losses in 24 months between August 2021 and August 2023 - a lot of the not yet fully digestd bits have come up again, too, as I lost the capacity to process for a while during that time.
Carys 'Love' was the cutest rescue-born baby who I was amazed to hear that she was the only one in her family (back-to-back litters due to a mis-sexed pair) who had not had any enquiries because of her dark ruby eyes and long hair. I'd never expected to actually get to adopt her. Lucky me!
At the time, I was specifically looking for a baby who would not be able to challenge 7 1/2 years old Ffwlbri 'Moonshine' (the last First Lady of the big Tribe group) but who would see out nearly 3 years old gentle Gethin 'Dusky', Ffwlbri's sister Tesni's 'Sun-warmed' much loved young 'toyboar'. Delightful Carys did in fact give Ffwlbri enough renewed zest of life to go on for nearly another year and to become Gethin's second big love of his life. The two of them shared a gentle outlook on life combined with a capacity for loving deeply and getting on with anypig and they were very attached to each other.
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She lived a lovely life with you and her many friends and I for one will miss having a cuddle with her when we come and visit 
