On a farm in England, one piglet is enjoying being different. Cinders is six weeks old and lives on a farm with two hundred other pigs. But she has a strange problem - she is afraid of the mud. Poor Cinders wasn’t able to join her brothers and sisters playing in the fields because she was too scared. Her owner said, “It was the strangest thing. Cinders just stood at the edge of her styshaking while the others explored.”
But don’t feel too bad for Cinders. Her owners had a very clever idea. Cinders now has a very different way to keep her trotters clean. The name Cinders is short for Cinderella, but instead of glass slippers, she wears green boots. She has a special pair of Wellington boots which are the perfect size for her. Cinders’ owners run a sausage factory, but her owners say that she is not going to be anyone’s dinner. “She’s more of a pet really now, and she’s going to live a very long and happy life.” As her owner Andrew says, “This is no ordinary pig.”