Death of a Pig
“The loss we felt was not the loss of ham but the loss of pig”
E.B. White wrote a lot about his relations with the animals he kept and wrote beautifully. There is lots to love about this wonderful & touching essay. Death of a Pig is about one particular pig, and his ambivalent relation to him. There is a real sense of the animal’s embodied and individual existence, the rich affect and character of pigs, and the unexpected sympathies that can emerge when raising an animal.
The full short story can be found in a scanned copy here - Death of a Pig, an Essay by E. B. White - The Atlantic