Except for soft patches of peach-fuzzy hair on her ears, face and tail, Elizabeth, affectionately called Pigsy by her friends at the Island Veterinary Hospital where she lives, is bald. She's supposed to be. She"s a rare Hairless Sphynx and was adopted by the clinics owner about five years ago from the SPCA. She’s quirky because she looks weird but also because she has some pretty strange habits.
"Every day she’ll go and sit by the water cooler and make funny noises,” says Andrea Quarnstrom, a receptionist at the clinic. “She has to have the water out of the dispenser. Tap water’s not good enough for her.”
Elizabeth has a good life at the clinic, one that would turn most furry felines green with envy. She sits on people’s laps, if they’ll let her, and regularly digs into the dog food bags that are supposed to be sold to the customers and since she’s allergic to almost everything this is the main reason she spends the majority of her time in the back office.
“She pretty much runs the place though. It’s quite the life, that’s for sure.”
Published in the Nanaimo Daily News on Thursday, June 9, 2005. Copyright (c) Kait Light, kaitsquirks.com, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. All Rights Reserved.
