December, 1995 - March, 2001

Smidgen is the reason this site came to be. He's the big guy sitting in the basket of peppers that you see at the top of each page.

Smidgen was a big piggie - and he loved to sit on your arm and just enjoy being held. In later years, he was lavish with granting piggie kisses, and would kiss your nose or arm when you picked him up.

Smidgen endured four surgeries; we almost lost him after the third, but intensive nursing brought him around.

Despite our trying to find the right diet, the right medication, his stones returned yet again, and he didn't make it through the final surgery.

- Tex