I hate being in an area without rescues. After I moved I spent 2 months stalking shelters, craigslist, and the newspaper for female pigs so that mine could have a best friend. My pig started barely eating, so I caved and went to Petco because she needed a friend now. I happened to luck out, the local shelter has an adoption area there and they had just gotten 4 pigs in that morning (grandson had hay allergy) and so I went home with an adopted best friend, which I was much happier about.