This is 30 of the #53pigs. These pigs are so incredibly lucky! They have made it through the following challenges on their lives -
🐖Starvation in an illegal slaughterhouse
🐖Avoiding slaughter in a illegal slaughterhouse
🐖Defra Disease Destruction Order
🐖Too aggressive 👇
🐖 Too aggressive, unsafe to live
🐖 In agreement with Defra, pigs must not be moved again.
🐖 Land & facility we use withdrawn and our notice given.
🐖 A risk Defra would insist on slaughter rather than allowing us to relocate them.
🐖 The only option acceptable to Defra is 👇
🐖 for them to be relocated to our own land. But we have only a little land & no facilities.
🐖 Urgent large scale fencing, temporary set up & start of ground works & barn build!
🐷 Defra sign off temporary set up! The pigs come home to the sanctuaries own land! 💖
🐖 Boars 👇
🐖 We cannot bring the entire boars as they need to be separate from females.
🐖 Seek permission from Dafra to split the herd across 2 sites.
🐷 Permission granted!
🐖 Can't find a barn to rent for the boars. Time is running out!
🐷 Found a barn to rent! Defra visit & approve! 👇
🐖 Global Pandemic! Funding hits the wall! No funds, 91 pigs to feed and a barn still to be built!
But we did it! And we are still doing it! Every challenge has been thrown at me. And I got so far, but then needed help & you amazing people stepped in!
And now you're building a safe & secure pig feed fund!
You've become #pigoneers on a quest to keep these pigs safe after everything they've been through. The #pigoneer club is now part of their amazing story...a battle to be allowed to live!👇
Thank you for all coming together for a cause, for the pigs!
It shouldn't of been this hard for them to have their life, it is a basic right of the living to be allowed to continue to live! #veganistheanswer 🌿
I run this sanctuary, I don't go out, I don't go on holiday, I don't have a day off, I don't buy luxury items, I did buy a gift for someones 50th Birthday, from my own money. I also use my own money to support the sanctuary, thousands of pounds over the years. I live in a caravan
I don't even have a proper toilet. Only I have access to sanctuary funds. Our Patron, has his own money that he uses to live his own life. I don't send DMs asking people to donate, I don't tweet disrespectful tweets, I have no control over what other people say or tweet.
I am incredibly grateful to everyone that supports, donates, likes or retweets. Amazing people that offer their support, both to the Sanctuary & to me personally. We do everything we can to save as many animals as possible and to advocate for veganism. We will continue to do so.