Pigsburgh Squealers Rescue

11/12/2024

It’s TRIVIA TUESDAY ⁉️

On Tuesdays, we will ask yinz a question about our resident and foster pigs at our rescue.

Today’s question:
Why do we bother to spay our pigs when we already neuter all of our boys?

📸 Blue, our founder

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11/11/2024

Zack and Yinz Need a Trim? had their first solo route without Blue! He went from Canton OH up through Erie PA. Our friend Michaella from .pig.sanctuary.pa helped out with most of the stops. Please enjoy the first photo of Zack wrangling Piggly Puff for her hoof trim 🤣

Need a trim? Send us a message! We are now serving east OH, west PA, and north WV. We provide safe, sedation-free hoof and tusk trims with over 8 years of experience. bit.ly/yinzneedatrim

11/09/2024

Welcome Savannah and Georgia! These two adoptable cuties were saved from the Savannah Liberation case in Georgia this Fall. Cotton Branch rescue in SC has been working tirelessly to rescue over 50 pigs from this horrific neglect, corruption, and hoarding case.

From Cotton Branch: "On September 2nd, we uncovered a nightmare at a property of horrors in Georgia. Over 43 pot-bellied pigs were found in conditions so gruesome, it’s hard to put into words.

Lifeless bodies of animals left to decompose, lay just feet away from surviving pigs, who have been living in unimaginable filth. The air is thick with the stench of death. Most gut-wrenching are the piglets, mere weeks old, struggling to survive without proper food, care, or the chance to nurse. Their little lives are hanging by a thread.

The person responsible for this abuse was charged with Aggravated Cruelty to Animals just weeks ago."

I recommend you give CB's page a follow and scroll back to see videos and updates from this case: . We were asked to help with this case and agreed. CB offered to send us two spayed, adoptable pigs! That certainly helps a lot since adoptablility and spay/neuter costs are our biggest challenges.

These two little girls are about 4mo, spayed, and very sweet. Check out those little underbites! Savannah (with the white scarf) already loves pets and Georgia is warming up well. They are available together or to adopters with other pigs. If you're interested in adopting, send us a message.

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11/08/2024

Welcome, Inosuke (ee-noh-skay)! This rotund lady arrived at our rescue last week. We had been asked to assist a family after their landlord discovered they had a pig after a house fire. The landlord did not approve or allow a pig, so she had to go. We weren’t given any more info, but waited for the family to reach out with more information.

Well, unfortunately, a local relief organization had incorrectly told the family Pigsburgh Squealers Rescue was coming to pick up the pig that day without ever talking with us! The pig's owner connected with us and said they had no utilities currently due to the fire (we had no idea until then). We learned Ino was pretty big, so Blue arranged to pick up her up the next day with our van and some man power.

The owner stopped responding and instead dumped the pig on a local emergency animal rescue volunteer and friend of our rescue. Yikes! So, we finally went to pick Ino up. She was in rough shape: morbidly obese, severely overgrown hooves caked in f***s, intact, and Ino can barely walk even a short distance. But, she seems very happy to be with us.

Of course, we are absolutely at capacity right now and at our limits financially. This feels like another person failing their pet and then dumping their animal on us, especially since they were hiding a pig from their landlord in a township where pig ownership is explicitly not allowed. Ino is currently in heat and needs to lose a lot of weight before she can be safely spayed. Like all of our fosters, we will give her a loving, safe home until a good family adopts her someday. But dang, it's a bit frustrating to continuously deal with the consequences of other people's selfishness towards animals.

If you'd like to sponsor Ino and receive a personal note plus photo of her, you can write "Ino" under the "Other" option on our sponsorship page: bit.ly/supportPSR

Ugh.

11/08/2024

Loretta is home! Her laproscopic OVA went very well. It only took the team st OSU an hour to load her up 🤭 Loretta ripped the insides of our van out (the right rear tail lights and resr winshield wiper currently dont work) so we borrowed a trailer from a local Squealers adopter. She rode home well 🚗🐖

Thank you so much to the folks who donated towards her spay and x-rays. With 12 snout art requests and some some extra donations, we have raised almost half of her $1500 vet bill! Yeah, it ended up way more than expected, but it's a big bill for a very big girl 😅

Once she heals up, Loretta will start her journey to find her own forever home along with the 17 other adoptable pigs at our rescue. If you would like to donate a little towards Loretta's vet bill or get your own snout art for $40, head over to our website: bit.ly/supportPSR

🐖 PayPal: paypal.me/pigsburghsquealers
🐖 Venmo:
🐖 CashApp: $PigsburghSquealers
🐖 Zelle: [email protected]

Thoinks!

11/06/2024

Loretta is at Ohio State and headed into surgery! She'll be getting x-rays of her spine done first to try to get some answers about her wonky gait. They have to use a horse table to move her 🤭

Please consider helping us cover her estimated $1000 vet bill for her spay today. A $40 donation gets you your very own, one-of-a-kind Loretta snout art! Sadly, we've only had ONE donor so far 😥 You can send $40 (or just a couple bucks) via PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, CashApp, or mail a check: bit.ly/supportPSR

🐖 PayPal: paypal.me/pigsburghsquealers
🐖 Venmo:
🐖 CashApp: $PigsburghSquealers
🐖 Zelle: [email protected]

Thoinks for helping our big girl out! #🐖

11/05/2024

Loretta is loaded up and on her way to OSU for her spay tomorrow 🐖🚗 It took some creative engineering and a winch to slowly pull her up a ramp and into our van. We had tried getting her used to our van for the last two weeks, leaving the van open near her pen and feeding her in the van. But Loretta said, "No thanks."

Loretta has some hind-limb mobility issues (she walks like her back legs are drunk) which makes moving her more difficult. This is likely from an old spine injury from a long time ago. She'll sit down or lose balance easier, thus we had to use creative methods to get her 750lb b***y gently loaded. We have seen similar mobility issues in a potbelly years ago and confirmed a spinal fracture via CT scan at OSU. But, Loretta is too big from OSU's CT scanner so we'll just trust our gut on this.

Loretta will have a laproscopic OVA (ovaries removed) tomorrow. OSU's vet tram is concerned about the risk of herniation from a typical midline OVH (ovaries and uterus removed) due to her giant size. If they find anything funny with her uterus via ultrasound before or during her surgery, they'll have to switch to an OVH. Keep this cute girl in your thoughts!

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11/03/2024

Our Crock Pot Cook-off was a blast! Thanks to all those who, ate, smashed some pumpkins, and pet some piggies.

11/03/2024

11/02/2024

Today's our Vegan Crock Pot Cook-off and the start of pumpkin season for our piggies! Our piggies are thrilled to get your pumpkin donations and there will be tons more to come later today at our event.

Reminders for today's event:
🎃 It's 3-6pm at the rescue: 130 Lampus Ln Tarentum PA 15084. We are at the end of Lampus Ln. DO NOT go to the house at the start of the lane with white barn.
🎃 The cost is $20 ($5 discount for bringing a dish), pay at the door with cash or Venmo/PayPal/Zelle/CashApp.
🎃 You don't have to bring a dish to attend.
🎃 We provide drinks and tableware.
🎃 Bring an uncut pumpkin, get a free Squealers sticker.
🎃 Vote for your favorite dish, winner gets a trophy.
🎃 There will be raffle baskets.
🎃 Best dish and raffle winners will be announced at 5:30pm.
🎃 PET ALL THE PIGGIES!

See yinz soon!

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween from Blue and Squonk 🐽👁👁

10/30/2024

It's Monster! This beautiful, fluffy wild lady has been a permanent resident at our rescue for 3 years. Her momma was shot by a hunter and then the family took her tiny orphaned baby home (yikes). They eventually got bored with her so she came to us. Monster is fiercely smart, loyal, a little suspicious, and super loving. Her full name is actually Flatwoods Monster, in keeping with our cryptid-themed names for our resident pigs.

10/29/2024

It’s TRIVIA TUESDAY ⁉️

On Tuesdays, we will ask yinz a question about our resident and foster pigs at our rescue.

Today’s question:
Who is this piggy that is receiving a zen-garden treatment?

📸 Blue, our founder

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10/29/2024

Our Vegan Crock Pot Cook-off is THIS Saturday! We really hope to see you all there. It's our last fundraising event of the year, and we're saving up for straw to keep our piggies warm this winter. We go through 40+ square bales each month!

The event is November 2nd from 3 to 6pm at our rescue: 130 Lampus Ln, Tarentum PA 15084. Tickets are $20 each with a $5 discount if you bring a vegan dish (though bringing a dish is not required). Pay at the door with cash, Zelle, PayPal, Venmo, or CashApp.

Please make sure your dish is vegan, meaning no milk, eggs, honey, or other animal products. We provide drinks, plates, bowls, and tableware. Every attendee will get to vote for their favorite dish with the best dish winning a trophy! There will be raffle baskets, too.

And don't forget your leftover pumpkins for our pigs 🎃🐷 Uncut, unpainted please. See yinz soon!

10/28/2024

Sasquatch is a bit nebby.

He is our very first piggy at Pigsburgh Squealers Rescue, the one the started it all! Blue got him in 2013 from a breeder (no local rescues then) and they lived together in a second floor apartment. While he did get to go only daily walks around the neighborhood, we absolutely do not recommend the apartment life for any pig 😅

Being known as the local "pig lady", we started hearing about pigs in bad situations. Thus, Pigsburgh Squealers Rescue was started in 2018! Sasquatch is an introvert and can get a bit nippy with guests and other pigs. But he is still our bestest, favorite boy at the rescue! He sleeps at the foot of Blue's bed every night 🐷💕👩

10/28/2024

PENNSYLVANIA - URGENT HOME NEEDED FOR A BONDED PAIR OF NEUTERED MALES. While we are not sharing the rescue's name for sake of privacy, the rescue these two are at are STRUGGLING and these piggies are in need of help now. Please reach out to Short & Curlies if you can help.

10/25/2024

It's featuring Pita & Chili Bean! These two have been at our rescue for over a year now and are absolutely thriving.

They were regular hoof trim clients of ours and, after one of their owner passed unexpectedly, we agreed to take them in after it was clear they were not being cared for. Pita and Chili Bean were morbidly obese and completely fat blind. They could barely move, only had access to a small gravel area, and slept 24 hours a day.

Once the two arrived at our rescue, rehab proved difficult at first; we had to "kick them out" of their house every day to encourage them to exercise and graze... even harder due to their blindness. Only months later did they finally start exploring on their own. Chili Bean would be most active when she was in heat, which was a disappointing discovery for us since the former owner had lied that she was spayed.

Finally over a year later, the two had lost over 60lb each and were finally fit enough for surgery: a brow lift for both and a spay for Chili Bean. Our talented vet was able to literally give their vision back after years in total darkness! We had hoped that their weight loss would be enough to help them see again, but their formerly-bloated faces just had too much extra skin in the way. Chili was able to see the second she woke up! She strut around the barn like the queen she is. Pita took a few weeks for swelling to go down before he was finally able to avoid bumping into things.

We are so very happy for this power couple. Pita used to bite and scream at us every time we arrived for a hoof trim in his former life. Now, he delights in belly rubs and when we scratch his brow lift scar. Chili Bean and Pita are available for adoption, but we know it is unlikely they will ever find their forever home. So, they will just live with us in the meantime.

Please consider donating to help us do what we do best: save the piggies! Piggies like Chili Bean and Pita require fresh straw, feed, and medical support that can cost $100 per pig each month. Every dollar donating goes directly to the pigs as we don't take a salary.

You can sponsor this duo or donate a variety of ways through our website:
🐷 Venmo
🐷 PayPal or Zelle [email protected]
🐷 CashApp $PigsburghSquealers
🐷 Mail a check or sponsor: bit.ly/supportPSR