Agatha's Big Day

Once upon a time there was a momma pig named Agatha.  She was pregnant with piglets when her owners told her she would be going to live with some children who were starting a weaner pig business.  Agatha did not want to go to a new home.  So when the new family came Agatha would not get on the lift gate to go into the truck.  She pushed, she ran, she fought but finally couldn't pass up the chance to have some tasty tortillas and got trapped on the lift gate.  It went up, up, up, lifting Agatha into her new family's truck. 

Agatha's ride home was very long.  They did not go fast on the freeway.  Instead they went through one town, over a river, through the tulip fields, through another town, through freshly plowed fields and finally through the woods and down a gravel driveway to her new home.  Agatha was tired from her fight against getting into the truck and slept most of the way. 

This new family had not owned very many pigs.  Agatha could sense this as soon as they opened up the truck.  She decided she was quite comfortable in the truck and didn't bother to get up.  It seemed many young children lived in this new place.  When Agatha did not get up to come greet them they climbed into the truck with her.  They brought her tortilla shells, bread and veggies.  She liked her new home in the truck and decided there was no reason to ever leave.  Everyone in her new family bribed her with goodies, pushed, pulled and shoved but Agatha out weighed all of them. She decided she would like to ride back and forth to work with the man, in his truck for the rest of her life.  This made the man angry.  Agatha did not understand why this would not work.  Couldn't the man bring her food and water on his lunch break?  She could have her babies there and raise them right there in the truck.  She fell back asleep dreaming of her new little children friends and all the goodies they would bring her while she lived in her new truck home.  Life was good.

Agatha awoke quite suddenly the next morning to the truck moving.  Her new family lined it up with the porch again so she would not need to step up or down.  Agatha knew they meant business this morning.  They did not bring her goodies, they tossed them on the porch and told her she would need to come out of the truck if she wanted to eat.  The truck was comfortable and safe and she did not want to leave, but oh how Agatha loved food!  She stood at the edge of the truck and stared down at the goodies on the porch.  The next thing she knew some of those nice children were pushing on her bottom with boards and yelling.  She supposed it was time to leave the truck.  She climbed out and ate the goodies on the porch.

The nice children told Agatha they would show her where she would be living and having her babies.  They tried to push her towards her stall with sticks.  But the yard was full of enticing new things.  Grass, trees, other animals, worms, bugs...it was all so exciting that the next thing Agatha knew she was running through the pasture and out into the woods as happy as she could be.  The children liked the game too.  Agatha could tell because they were chasing her and screaming.  She ran deeper into the woods.  Soon the whole family joined in the fun game.  They had sticks, boards and pieces of fencing in their hands.  They yelled at Agatha, they yelled at each other.  They ran until they were breathing hard and couldn't run anymore.  Agatha Loved this new game and could tell her new family liked it too because of all the yelling.

When she was tired of the woods she ran back up to the barn with children and then they played another game with her.  It was called dodge the stall.  The children tried to push her towards the stall and she dodged the other way.  Sometimes the children slipped in the mud as it was very rainy.  Sometimes Agatha stopped to root through the mud because she smelled something tasty.  These were the times the children would stop and catch their breath and then the game would resume.  Mom and dad played too.  Pretty soon everyone was so tired they couldn't play anymore.  Agatha was not tired but she WAS hungry again.  And there seemed to be something that smelled good in the bowl in her new stall so she went in and was surprised when the children shut the door.  There was a lot of cheering.  Agatha realized they were cheering for her because she had won the game.  She felt very happy as she ate her bowl of pig yummies..

The children went in the house to rest.  Agatha laid down with a full pig tummy and thought about the next time she could play with the children.  Maybe if the game got really exciting mom and dad would even come back to play too.... full and happy she fell asleep dreaming of games in the woods.

The End