I Want To Watch A Piggypotamus For Christmas

I want to watch a piggypotamus for Christmas

That’s all I really want to do

Don’t want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy

I only want to watch a piggypotamus play with joy

I want to watch a piggypotamus for Christmas

I don’t think Santa Claus will mind, do you?

He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flue

He can just stand and watch them play,

that’s the easy thing to do

I can see me now on Christmas morning, creeping down the bank

Oh what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes

To see my piggy hero swimming there

I want to watch a piggypotamus for Christmas

Only a piggypotamus will do

No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses

I only like piggypotamus

And piggypotamuses like me too

I can see me now on Christmas morning, creeping down the bank

Oh what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes

To see my piggy hero sitting there

I want to watch a piggypotamus for Christmas

Only a piggypotamus will do

No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses

I only like piggypotamus

And piggypotamuses like me too

 

The end!

I grew up loving this song and though it took a while I finally got my piggypotamus !

Photo’s and piggy lyrics by

Melody Lesh, President

Peace At Last Farms Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation, Inc (PALFARR)

A non profit organization dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of domestic and farm animals. We survive solely on donations and the generosity of others. Please help us in continue to provide them with peace.

All donations are tax deductible and go solely to the care of the animals at PALFARR.

www.peaceatlastfarmsanimalrescueandrehabilitation.org

 Credits

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas is a Christmas novelty song written by John Coctoasten and performed by Gayla Peevey in 1953. It is a Dr. Demento Christmas staple, and is currently available on Dr. Demento’s The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time Vol. 6: Christmas.

Here’s an interesting fact about the popular Christmas hippopotamus song – in 1953 a ten-year-old girl from Oklahoma, Gayla Peevey sang the song as a way to raise money for the Oklahoma City Zoo’s first hippopotamus. It became a nationwide hit after that, although John Rox wrote the song “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” in 1950! The song was not written specifically for the Oklahoma zoo, its just that when they needed the hippo the song came out so the Christmas hippopotamus song just fitted in.

 http://www.christmas-lyrics.org/i-want-a-hippopotamus-for-christmas-lyrics.html

 

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Being An Animal Rescue Means….

Being A Rescue Means….

• Never having enough money to do the things that need to be done
• Never having enough time to do the things that need to be done
• Never having enough help to do the things that need to be done
• Not eating until all the animals are fed and cared for
• Getting up all hours of the night…
• Never having a day off. Animals don’t care if it’s nights, weekends or holidays. They need care 24/7 365 days a year
• Having to work an outside job despite your rescue being a full time job just to try and make ends meet
• Pinching pennies and doing without so the animals don’t
• Not going out to dinner (that would be 2 or more bags of feed!)
• Not buying new clothes (more bags of feed!)
• Not going to the movies (you see everything as bags of feed)
• Never going on vacation (who’d watch the animals?)
• Having to constantly pester friends, family, co-workers, supporters for help
• Being disappointed because no mater what you do to fundraise only a couple of people participate
• Feeling bad because the people that do help are the ones you know can’t afford it
• Stressing day in day out if you are going to have enough money to pay for feed, medical needs and such
• Taking in yet another animal despite all the above because you know if you don’t the animal could die
• Being ridiculed by friends and family for what you are doing
• Seeing pain and suffering of animals beyond compare on a daily basis
• Fighting to save animals society has tossed aside
• Fighting against all odds because laws do not protect the animals or punish the abusers well enough
• Wanting to shake people and holler, “Wake up! It takes society to make a change. It takes a community to support a rescue! We can not do this by ourselves.”
• Knowing no matter what you do people still see animals as disposable

 

This may seem harsh but it is apparent everyday that people just do not have a clue. It’s time for a wakeup call. We must raise awareness and make the public aware of the plight of rescues and pot bellied pigs to establish laws protecting them and bring them the support they need.

Melody Lesh

Peace At Last Farms Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation, Inc

Dedicated to Lory Yazurlo of Pig Tails Sanctuary and the 400 rescued pet pigs who were murdered senselessly because society failed her and her innocent babies.