Because Sometimes We All Need a Little Bit of Adorable

categories: Farm Animals, Investigations and Rescues, Sanctuaries, Videos

Published August 06, 2009 @ 08:20AM PT

Wally and Nemo; photo courtesy of Woodstock FAS

In February, the folks at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary uploaded the below upbeat video of the happy arrival of four rescued piglets, Eva, Nemo, Pinky, and Wally. Noting similarities between pigs and dogs is nothing new, but still, I don't know how anyone could watch these little ones running around and playing gleefully at their safe new home and not think of puppies (and question their eating of pigs). The story of how they ended up at the sanctuary appears after the video:

From Woodstock:

Nemo, Eva, Pinky and Wally are alive today because a wildlife rehabilitator chose to act with her heart.

A man in western New York purchased 4 young pigs from an Amish farmer to raise for slaughter. He kept the pigs in a small, unheated garage, and one morning discovered that one of the pigs had given birth during the night. Twelve tiny piglets lay next to their mother, wet and covered with excrement. Eight were already dead and four others lay shivering and barely alive.

The rehabilitator, Shanon Rumbugh, received the call on New Year's Eve and she rushed the piglets home. She tirelessly nursed them back to health—but it wasn’t an easy road. Once they were stable, the original owners had the gall to ask for them back to raise for slaughter along with the others.

Needless to say, that request was not granted, and this little family is safe now. Read and see more here.

And for even more Woodstock adorableness, see also the really wonderful video of Fern the rescued goat included at the end of this April post: "Eating Goats with Glee, Rescuing Them with Compassion."

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I just called my daughters in to see this video. My 8 year old said, "Ah, they're just like puppies!"

Good work, Woodstock.

Posted by nicole horton on 08/06/2009 @ 08:45AM PT
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Thanks Steph - seeing videos like these are definitely needed! They are sooo cute!

Posted by Kristen Magno on 08/06/2009 @ 10:13AM PT
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Thank you. I dig pigs!

Posted by Elaine Vigneault on 08/06/2009 @ 03:09PM PT
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I LOVE pigs!!!

I just showed this to my son and he said they are cuter than puppies.

And yes, I think we all need a dose of cute once in a while, especially on this blog!!

Posted by Lisa Smolen on 08/07/2009 @ 06:38AM PT
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I love their little waggly tails :-)

Posted by Philosophia and Animal Liberation on 08/07/2009 @ 09:42AM PT
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That was my first thought when I saw the photo of these babies eating...before the video. Just like a dog or cat. And of course they were! Just is, I never saw piglets eating and posing for the camera before. Bless you all.

Posted by Veronica Greene on 08/07/2009 @ 01:20PM PT
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Oh so much cuteness! What a wonderful story and what lucky litte piglets! (Aww even the word piglet is adorable!)

Posted by The Voracious Vegan . on 08/08/2009 @ 02:15AM PT
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Stephanie is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull.