Pigs were very fashionable as pets a few years ago, unfortunately with some people, they treat animals like clothes that go out of fashion.
We agreed to take on these three to add to our growing pig collection, now at 11.
Unfortunately the female is pregnant so our collection of pigs needing homes will continue to grow!
Running the sanctuary requires many different skill sets. These skills aren’t just limited to caring for the many types of animals we rescue, we need to administer the charity, fund raise and there’s also lots and lots of maintenance and repair activities to keep on top of, not least land management. This place certainly keeps…
Although Bear came from a different home to Biscuit and Humbug, they quickly bonded and became the best of friends. When we found a home that would take all three, we were so happy for them. We took them to their new home in North Wales where they now live with ample land to explore.
This week we have have done exceptionally well re-homing pigs, in fact we have successfully re-homed 6, which is twice as many as we have re-homed in the past two years! Although great news, we have had to turn as many away. These two girls were re-homed today, originally the poor girls were dumped as piglets…
There have been many tears at the sanctuary as we have lost our battle to save our gentle giant. Billy went down last week and had to be helped up again, during the week he has been quite mobile and we were quietly confident, however on Friday he went downhill rapidly, the kindest last act…
2011 has been an extremely busy year for us, with many highlights and successes, but a very difficult year in terms of the huge volume of unwanted animals we were asked to take in, unfortunately we had no choice but to turn many away. In the year, we have admitted 859 animals, a full breakdown…
Meet Colin, a rescued stray pig. Unfortunately we get inundated with calls to take on unwanted pets, pigs are no exception to this, sadly we have to many away away every week, we can only take them more in when we have space, space created when people rehome rescued animals that we have. This chap…
