"Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox.
The Good Good.
Sy reveals what she and others learned from this generous soul who just so happened to be a pig-lessons about self-acceptance, the meaning of family, the value of community, and the pleasures of the sweet green Earth.
But as this enchanting book describes, Christopher Hogwood\'s influence extended far beyond celebrity; for he was, as a friend said, a great big Buddha master.
On election day, some voters even wrote in Christopher\'s name on their ballots.
He was featured in USA Today and on several National Public Radio environmental programs.
His intelligence and fame increased along with his girth.
Then the neighbors began fetching Christopher home from his unauthorized jaunts, the little girls next door started giving him warm, soapy baths, and the villagers brought him delicious leftovers.
At first, his domain included only Sy\'s cosseted hens and her beautiful border collie, Tess.
The Good Good Pig celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all his glory, from his inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New Hampshire, where his boundless zest for Life and his large, loving heart made him absolute monarch over a (mostly) peaceable kingdom.
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.
He was a creature who would prove in many ways to be more human than I am."-from The Good Good Pig A 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. "Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox
