Hippie Hog Refuge

06/29/2024

05/28/2024

Bebop and Tinsel help with fencing lol

Check out Hippie Hog Refuge’s video.

05/10/2024

➡️First Community Garden Volunteer Weekend!⬅️

Calling all strong arms, green thumbs, and anyone else who wants to help!

We are having our first volunteer weekend. Finally, schedules have aligned and we are going to be tilling the dirt, marking the paths, and hopefully beginning to plant the plants and sow some seeds!

We are celebrating Mother’s Day by putting our hands in the dirt and appreciating the earth for giving us space to grow food that will help feed a community!

Kids are welcome!

If you have anything you’re willing to share (time, helping hands, tools, supplies, starter plants, etc), this weekend would be the best time to stop by!

We hope to see you there!
We can also offer rides to those who need it. 🙂

Days and Times:
Saturday, May 11: 9 am - 8pm
Sunday, May 12: Noon (12pm) - 8pm
(These aren’t strict. Folks can come and go anytime after the start time and before end time)

Location:
4004 Trumble Rd
Jackson, MI 49201

05/10/2024

Quote from where I shared this from:

“🆘🆘 NINE BABIES WILL DIE 🆘🆘 The time is now, we knew it would come. The day we cannot save them from a horrible fate. There are too many, we are not enough. Rescues have been begging and praying that somehow, someway they can pull off another miracle. THEY NEED YOUR HELP!! The shelter has condemned them because they have mites/mange. It’s two treatments of ivermectin and some baths. WHY IS THAT A DEATH SENTENCE????

Can you commit to One? Two? We will help guide you through the process of getting them well. We will be your support system, your cheerleader, we will teach you what you don’t know EVERY STEP of the way.

Cant commit? Please share!! We need this to go EVERYWHERE!! 🆘

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Sharing from Saving Animals & Healing Hearts Inc

04/20/2024

Thank you to AutumnJude Rowan for this cute piece of art.

In 2018, “Hippie Hog Refuge” is what we named the property, long before we ever got settled on what we were going to do with our new home. It was mostly as a memorial to all the animals we had helped in the past (mostly pet pigs).

[We used to actively receive rescues. And functioned as such for several years. However. We no longer function as an open animal sanctuary (we are only taking care of the animals we currently have -three pigs, one of which just celebrated her sweet 16, and several special needs cats.) But we decided to keep the name and keep the original page open for Hippie Hog Refuge to post cute stuff our remaining rescues are up to.]

The COMMUNITY garden is to help feed the community and surrounding areas. We are not planting a 50’x70’ garden to grow food for three piggies lol - now if they happen to get some garden scraps and a few treats from generous volunteers, that’s one thing. But this isn’t for them. This is a dream that has been in the works since we bought this home in 2018. And we started to realize this dream into an actual plan a few years ago and then even more so when we decided to regroup and “rebrand”.

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We are trying to drum up some interest in having these printed and figuring out costs for everyone. This image, minus all the white, would be printed on the back, with our three brooms logo on the front breast.

For now, we are looking into posting these to Redbubble, which would allow people to support us directly as well has have this printed on more budget friendly items (like magnets and stickers), aside from tshirts.

We will keep everyone posted once this has been made available.

If you, or someone you know, offers quality print service, who can work with us on perhaps a discounted rate or figure out a way to print on demand rather than bulk, please let us know!

04/01/2024

NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S DAY JOKE!!

Happy Birthday to our resident old lady pig, Sophie! She is 16 today! 🩷🩷🩷

03/02/2024

Edit: Tomorrow is the last day! Hope to see you you there!

Location is in Jackson, MI!

03/02/2024

Please be warned. There is someone posting comments all over our page with a link to a website to buy clothing with our logo in our profile pic on them.

This is not us. It was not sanctioned by us and we are trying to remove all the comments with the link in it.

The ONLY sanctioned store we sell anything with our logo on it is our Redbubble store.

Please do not buy from anyone else. They are scamming you. We would not see a single dime of that money.

02/18/2024

Last April we had one last surprise on our sanctuary, before we had a huge undertaking to rehome the majority of our outside animals.

Tragically, we lost two piglets to congenital meningitis. And tonight we were finally able to honor them and have a small funeral for them.

Life on the Sanctuary hasn’t been the same since we closed our doors and rehomed the majority of our herd. We have three left and one of them is turning 16 this April. We miss some of those we couldn’t keep. And our hearts are heavy knowing that our oldest, Sophie, is the last of the original herd that started us on our pig rescue journey. It’s bittersweet.

The two piglets who passed, Rocksteady and Stitches, are Bebop’s litter mates, born on Good Friday, (April 7) 2023.

Stitches and Rocksteady will always hold a sweet place in our hearts. They blessed us for the very short time they were with us. We loved them and are honored that they loved us in return.

Thank you, to everyone who has loved and supported us all these years. Us having to close our doors was not an easy decision, though we know it was the right one to make.

We will continue to keep this page open, to share the adventures of our remaining animal residences.

Thanks again for going on this journey with us.

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