Unexpectedly, Christopher provided this peripatetic traveler with something she had sought all her life: an anchor (eventually weighing 750 pounds) to family and home. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish-and she soon found herself engaged with her small-town community in ways she had never dreamed possible. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst DogĪ naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. Sometimes it takes a too-smart-for-his-own-good pig to open our eyes to what most matters in life.” "In loving yet unsentimental prose, Sy Montgomery captures the richness that animals bring to the human experience.
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