Well It all started with Toby and Honey, Both Bought from a flea market stand. Both Turned out to be pregnant and had their babies. That made Baby Toby, Click, Fluffy and Bullet.
So Back at the pet shop I'm there buying food and I see a pig in the box, I ask why he is there and she says nobody wants him his toe is broke from someone picking him up. (Wire Cage Bottom with and open top so any crazy kid can rip the poor pig up while he's holding on for dear life. I can't help myself and already wanted a Boar as the babies were so hard to Sex I couldn't tell. So I took him and Named him Ben.
So the babies are growing and I separate males and Females and give the only Sow Fluffy to a friends girlfriend and show he the ropes. Low and Behold 3 Months later I get a call they Think Fluffy is pregnant as they bought another pig and were told it was female so they don't know how. I sex the Pig and it's a boy and I take Fluffy with me, Fluffy gives birth 2 weeks later to 4 Babies, I haven't even named them honestly.
So in this process My newborn Son gets admitted to the Hospital and I'm losing my head and let my brother and mother stay over to watch the pigs and my chinchilla while I'm away. After starting a Medical Malpractice lawsuit over my Sons treatment at one Hospital and transferring him to Hopkins and him becoming the first baby they could find to need Pyloric Stenosis surgery 3 times(only 1% recurs once they couldn't find any hospital that had it recur twice and this is Johns Hopkins rated (broken link removed) hospital in America forever as I'm from Baltimore)
While I'm there I overhear a family talking, there son had Cancer and there vet just confirmed both there Sows are pregnant and they are never home. I offer to take them until he's finished treatment and care for the babies. At this time I love Pigs and you mine as well just Tattoo it on my forehead because it' become an obsession.
So a few weeks goes by and the have there babies. 5 for one 2 for the other. I'm at 17! One of the babies had a weird deformation in his back. I fell in love but he didn't eat and even after vet visits and force feeding he had what I think was a stroke and passed that night.
So after moving and settling into a new place I notice a case of bullying to the runt so I separate her as she was becoming very thin.(more cage space) Then the time comes to separate boys and girls. And it seemed like these pigs were growing a lot slower than my others. I don't no why.
So Now I have C&C's and huge moving boxes cut to cage status all over the place. Then guess what! I get a call. A friend who knows I love Pigs just picked three up that some morons up the street were getting rid of. THEY JUST LET THEM GO OUTSIDE!!!! I of course Go get them. 1 Boar 2 Sows. Someone else took the boar thankfully! SO You know what that means. Preganant!!
I'm in a very crazy predicament here.. The people from the Hospital only took the adult pigs back saying they would take the others to a shelter. Financially It's tearing me up. Our washer went up so I had to switch back to wood chips from fleece and to keep the smell down I have to change it out every few days instead of once a week like fleece plus cost is more. And Food and Hay, I'm going through 48oz of Hay a week and 20+lbs of food. Honestly If there was funding for a rescue I'd adopt a bunch of pigs who need a home and apply for the funding. But I can't keep it up with 20 Pigs and one still to have babies. I'm so scared they will end up in bad hands like Fluffy did at first so I don't want to let them go but I'm running out of Cash to support them. I Could do 12 but no way 20. If one got sick and passed it around I'd be done for. No way I could afford to take them all. And tonight the one abandoned pig just gave birth to 4 babies! And the other one is ready to pop herself so I know It's coming. What is my best option for these pigs to have a safe home!
So Back at the pet shop I'm there buying food and I see a pig in the box, I ask why he is there and she says nobody wants him his toe is broke from someone picking him up. (Wire Cage Bottom with and open top so any crazy kid can rip the poor pig up while he's holding on for dear life. I can't help myself and already wanted a Boar as the babies were so hard to Sex I couldn't tell. So I took him and Named him Ben.
So the babies are growing and I separate males and Females and give the only Sow Fluffy to a friends girlfriend and show he the ropes. Low and Behold 3 Months later I get a call they Think Fluffy is pregnant as they bought another pig and were told it was female so they don't know how. I sex the Pig and it's a boy and I take Fluffy with me, Fluffy gives birth 2 weeks later to 4 Babies, I haven't even named them honestly.
So in this process My newborn Son gets admitted to the Hospital and I'm losing my head and let my brother and mother stay over to watch the pigs and my chinchilla while I'm away. After starting a Medical Malpractice lawsuit over my Sons treatment at one Hospital and transferring him to Hopkins and him becoming the first baby they could find to need Pyloric Stenosis surgery 3 times(only 1% recurs once they couldn't find any hospital that had it recur twice and this is Johns Hopkins rated (broken link removed) hospital in America forever as I'm from Baltimore)
While I'm there I overhear a family talking, there son had Cancer and there vet just confirmed both there Sows are pregnant and they are never home. I offer to take them until he's finished treatment and care for the babies. At this time I love Pigs and you mine as well just Tattoo it on my forehead because it' become an obsession.
So a few weeks goes by and the have there babies. 5 for one 2 for the other. I'm at 17! One of the babies had a weird deformation in his back. I fell in love but he didn't eat and even after vet visits and force feeding he had what I think was a stroke and passed that night.
So after moving and settling into a new place I notice a case of bullying to the runt so I separate her as she was becoming very thin.(more cage space) Then the time comes to separate boys and girls. And it seemed like these pigs were growing a lot slower than my others. I don't no why.
So Now I have C&C's and huge moving boxes cut to cage status all over the place. Then guess what! I get a call. A friend who knows I love Pigs just picked three up that some morons up the street were getting rid of. THEY JUST LET THEM GO OUTSIDE!!!! I of course Go get them. 1 Boar 2 Sows. Someone else took the boar thankfully! SO You know what that means. Preganant!!
I'm in a very crazy predicament here.. The people from the Hospital only took the adult pigs back saying they would take the others to a shelter. Financially It's tearing me up. Our washer went up so I had to switch back to wood chips from fleece and to keep the smell down I have to change it out every few days instead of once a week like fleece plus cost is more. And Food and Hay, I'm going through 48oz of Hay a week and 20+lbs of food. Honestly If there was funding for a rescue I'd adopt a bunch of pigs who need a home and apply for the funding. But I can't keep it up with 20 Pigs and one still to have babies. I'm so scared they will end up in bad hands like Fluffy did at first so I don't want to let them go but I'm running out of Cash to support them. I Could do 12 but no way 20. If one got sick and passed it around I'd be done for. No way I could afford to take them all. And tonight the one abandoned pig just gave birth to 4 babies! And the other one is ready to pop herself so I know It's coming. What is my best option for these pigs to have a safe home!
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