Hello, my name is Homer, aka "the Carbon Canyon Pig". My article was just recently featured inside the March newsletter for SCAMPP! For those that didn't have the chance to read my sad " Story", I was recently moved from my old home of nine years because my original owners did NOT care that their two vicious Rottweilers continually attacked me! I wear the scars on my ears and neck as a reminder of my "neglected" old home! The kind and caring people from SCAMPP were nice enough to take me to a Sanctuary up in Solvang, which is about three hours away from Chino Hills. I LOVED my new home. I made lots and lots of piggie friends, had a warm cozy bed of hay and straw at night and had a lot of land to roam during the day. Unfortunately I contracted Pneumonia somehow and got very, VERY ill over the last week or so, in fact I thought I was going to die...my temperature went down to 94.3 degrees and my breathing became very labored. I didn't want to move because I felt so tired and sluggish, in fact I stopped eating for three days already, FIRST sign of a serious problem in pigs as everybody knows how us piggies LOVE to eat:) THANKFULLY the nice people from SCAMPP love me so much and gave me yet another chance at live! They drove again THREE hours just to come get me and then drove another THREE hours all the way back to Monrovia where I was immediately admitted to an Emergency Veterinary Clinic, called "Dr. Domotor's Animal House". My Vet and her staff have been so very nice to me, they quickly gave me the emergency care I needed to stay alive. Kelley and Peggy and Andreas and Rosalinde were there, too! I was so happy to have them all there with me, praying for the best:) They gave me an IV drip immediately because I was very dehydrated. Then they poked my ear several times to get a vein in order to draw blood which was ok because I knew they love me so much and wanted me to live! The results showed that my white blood cell count was VERY high, showing signs of a serious infection! Then I had to get X-Rays for the Vet to determine what was wrong with me, as to why I had such a hard time breathing. Turns out my left lung had partially collapsed due to the advanced stage of Pneumonea! I am told to be the very first piggie to have been diagnosed with a collapsed lung! Yikes!!! Talk about clinging on to life! I thought I was going to my new home by now (though I heard we're still looking for that, too) but I am still in the Hospital. I am still being monitored on a daily basis by my caring Vet Sari Kanfer and loving Kelley since my breathing has not yet improved as much as they were hoping it to be by now. And I also am still not eating on my own! Kelley has been such a sweetheart and boy does she have a lot of patience, she has been having to "force feed" me since I checked into the Hospital. She wants me to get well quick! I know my Emergency Care won't be cheap, in fact I know that it will be VERY expensive as I've been here since Saturday(March 15th)!!! I am asking you to PLEASE help with just a little donation to help pay my Vet Bill! Any amount is very appreciated, it can be as little as $5 or $10, I will forever be very grateful! I don't think I deserved another chance at live as SCAMPP has done so much for me already! If it wasn't for SCAMPP, my voice would have never been heard!!! And I would've crossed the Rainbow Bridge! THANK YOU to "Dr. Domotor's Animal House" for being so accommodating and compassionate!!! And THANK YOU for reading my story! Please keep your fingers and hooves crossed for my speedy recovery!!! I love you!!!