Pig Van Adventures

01/09/2021

I'd love to start transporting full time again. I'd be looking for a new suv or van for this to happen. If anyone has any leads on a cheap transport vehicle near Indiana please reach out 🤗💞🐽

25/07/2021

Our lil truck jumper that's living at Kanda Farm Sanctuary from last weeks transport

25/07/2021

19/05/2021

My newest baby and my piggies boy. Pumbas been sick since Sunday, and is currently at purdue undergoing surgery. We have no answers right now. If everyone can send happy healthy healing and good vibes his way 🐷🙏💗

https://www.gofundme.com/f/pumbas-purdue-surgery?utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram

01/01/2021

Happy new years, and thank you all for following and supporting this journey though such a crazy, unpredictable time of 2020.

I sat down last night and figured out my transports, in the year of 2020 I have transported 30 pigs, and 2 sheep in my van. I have traveled a total of 7 states for animal rescues, and am so thankful for every experience with these individuals, working with new sanctuaries, traveling many states, and finding the best vegan restaurants around. 💗🙏

I wish I had a close estimate of how many miles I drove this year for animal rescues, but enough to where I don't even want to think about all the maintenance I've upkept on my car this year though the travels and constant driving. Some weeks I was doing 3 transports a week. I kept myself busy even though covid laid me off from my full time job.

I have one more transport scheduled for next weekend, and that might be the end of this year transports before we're preparing for our newest family member early March 🤰

Again thank you all from the bottle of my hearts for following our travels with our friends, during my time off of transporting, I'll keep this page active with photos of our friends we will visit this year at the different sanctuaries I've worked with 💗

Have a great start to a new year, set great intentions, put yourself first, and love one another.

27/12/2020

This weeks transport will be these two lil chunks. Not a long road trip with them, a lil over 200 miles. Hoping to raise our goal funds of $50 for gas and straw. :) finishing the year strong with many many pigs 🐷💗

Since I only have a few months left for transports before I'm home bound with a newborn, I will be doing some custom raffles and gifts to our most active donations, and to keep my page active during my time off of driving with the newborn babe. Of course we will still be visiting all our friends at the many sanctuaries I've worked with over the year I've been doing this.

It's actually kind of emotional to know I only have 2 months left of transports, as our newest addition is coming in March. I'm definitely most excited to not have straw all over in my car during my time off. I will not miss having to clean a barn transformation out of my mini van. 🤣

If you'd like to donate we have:
paypal at [email protected]
Venmo at lexi-ritchie
And cashapp at vegan4love

25/12/2020

Happy holidays, from my pig to yours 🐷😁

I hope all of you enjoy your holidays, and stay safe and warm this season. 🎄🙏🌟

20/12/2020

Happy weekend. 🥰 today is my birth day, and were getting to the last few months of transports, as Im due mid march so will probably end services in February for around a year 🐷
So if anyone will need transport services schedule them in before March 💗

We have a transport on Tues, a 12 hour road trip for a pig named Daisy.

17/12/2020

Warming up for dinner, mom forced me to go outside to go potty, and she knows its cold. I dont like the cold. Sometimes that lady is so mean. -Pumba

17/12/2020

First snow of the year, pumba is not thrilled about this stuff

06/12/2020

Click it or ticket, piggie safety

02/12/2020

For my birthday I'm doing a pig transport. 🐷 12-19.

A 788, 12 hour, round trip for a bigger size pig.
Gas funds appreciated on this one.

To donate we have:
paypal at [email protected]
Venmo at lexi-ritchie
And cashapp at vegan4love

Just gotta find someone to hang out with my pig pumba cause he gets sassy and pouty if left alone all day. 🤣🤣🤷‍♀️ I can't blame him.

02/12/2020

This is miss piggie. She was wandering around Kentucky eating out of people's trash. Thankfully a neighbor was worried about her, and with the bears and jaguars that she trapped this pig, and seeked help for a new home for her. I transported her November 15th. She was a sweetie. And she's got many friends. Hampton was a big ole piggie. But such a kind welcoming pig.

02/12/2020

Another baby on their way to their forever home this Sunday. I love small baby transports (so does my car cause that means less cleaning) 🤣. 6 pound lil baby. 😍

312 miles ahead for this babe.

14/11/2020

Goood morning pig van adventure fans 🌞
I previously said I was taking a November break for transports. But it seems a lot of pigs need rehomed before winter, due to unsafe weather conditions and not the proper setup for winter. So I have an emergency transport tomorrow to get a big ole piggo to their foster home. He might be bigger than my first pig I had. Since this was last minute and I didn't plan on transporting, we weren't really prepared for any of this. So I need to get some straw for our journey, and hopefully find a volunteer to journey with tomorrow.
In addition gas funds aren't fully covered.

I have a 750 mile trip tomorrow. Any amount helps towards our new taxi friend and a safe drive and load in and unloading. 🐷

To donate we have:
paypal at [email protected]
Venmo at lexi-ritchie
And cashapp at vegan4love

06/11/2020

BIIIIIGGGG piggie event happening tomorrow. Don't want to let the cat outta the bag until tomorrow. But live video updates will be tomorrow. Special rescue 💗🥰

Gas and equipment funds are around $100. If anyone wants to donate it's always appreciated beyond words.

Paypal at [email protected]
Venmo at lexi-ritchie
Cash apo at vegan4love

Will keep updated on donated funds and if we reach our goal. 🐷🥰

50/100 down 🥳🥳

31/10/2020

Happy halloween from my family to yours. Stay safe and warm wherever you're located. 🎃
After the holidays, please locate a near by sanctuary to donate your pumpkins and if you have decorative straw. The pigs and others will enjoy your pumpkins as snacks. 🐷

Friendly reminder that I am not transporting again until Dec, so plesse seek other transport services. I am taking a much needed mental health and pregnancy break. As I do this completely on my own and out of our funds. But am planning to be back on the road for the pigs in December.

28/10/2020

After 2,098 of driving this weekend from 2 different transports, I got a suprise when I got home 🐷🤗

27/10/2020

Good morning everyone, I'm currently heading back home in indiana after an overnight transport down to Missouri with 4 pigs. They had their butcher date scheduled but I got ahold of the word and told them I'd drive them whenever if they had a home located. So we made it happen 💗

In the picture is hamlet, he was a transport I did in the end of June. He was super overweight, my partner and I had to actually lift him with a sheet and gurney him up into my van. He ended up getting so upset he was jumping at my windows and chipped my tint in my van. 😬 but after a few months of being at his forever home he's lost weight and is becoming more friendly. Sometimes all they need is love, patience and a second chance. I'm so thankful to be apart of these rehabilitation moments to get them home.

As many if you know, I'm currently pregnant with our number 4, I've done now 19 pigs in my 20 weeks of pregnancy so far. I can't wait to tell our baby that this is what I did during my pregnancy 😅 my one year anniversary is coming up in November, and I didn't know just how many pigs needed taxis to their homes. I have learned so much during this past year. I really didn't think I'd be traveling across the country for pigs. When I get home and am well rested I'm going to try to get a number of how many pigs I've transported in my van in a year.

I do this all on my own, and I feel sometimes people forget that, but I'm not a NFP, I'm not with anyone, it's just me and my van (that is also my car to take my kids anywhere) so I don't have other people to be relying on, or to always guarantee help with load in or driving, or do my scheduling and route.

So for the month of November I'll be taking a little break, driving all night while pregnant is hard, mentally and physically. It's stressful trying to find people that know how to load pigs (besides my partner and best friend whose also pregnant) and I'm sure my car will appreciate less wear and tare driving all the time.

Thank you all for supporting this journey, and I'm definitely going to enjoy a little break, but will definitely miss the pigs (not so much the mess they add to my car though) 🤣

27/10/2020

Just a friendly reminder that a dodge caravan can fit 4 piggies 🐷

Kinda wanna see how much they weight. You think a semi weight station will measure my van? 😅🤷‍♀️

26/10/2020

It is ALWAYS appreciated on both ends when my ending location takes my straw from my van 😍😍

Less mess for me, more straw for them. Hard to get photos of a pig rooting though new straw trying to find hidden treats 😅

26/10/2020

I'll tell ya what, I cross paths with some beautiful souls during transports 💗

25/10/2020

Yesterday I picked up Eli from Michigan and taxied him to The Farm Way in Illinois. He was a super smooth load in, for being so over weight and his hooves needing some major care, he went up the ramp super smooth and got cozy right away. He napped the whole route, and didn't even leave me any extra presents in my car. He's estimated to be around 7 years old. 🐷

The Farm Way is a beautiful smaller sanctuary based out of Morrison Illinois, they started with horses and now have pigs and chickens as well. 💗

22/10/2020

Sparks is loving his new life at bubbles mini sanctuary. Made himself all relaxed and happy as can be instantly. 💗🐷

21/10/2020

Best part of home schooling is the spur of the moment transport trips with mom 😅

This is their second transport they've gone on. Sparks, previously bubbles, who I dropped off at the vet Saturday night was ready to go home today, so since I live right down the street of the vet he was at, I offered to take him home and make it easier for everyone involved. Super thankful that I just handed my crate over to the vet and they did the full load in for me, even into my car. Poor kids, sparks pooped within 5 minutes of being in my car, so we got the pig barn smell early on for our travels today. I don't do very many crate transports, so this morning I added straw to my crate and that really helped with odor, as well as cleaning later this evening. 😅

An easy unload, he hopped right out of the crate and into his new pen. Pictures soon of him getting all cozy and settling in his home 💗

21/10/2020

3 transports these next few days! 🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷

I'm taking sparks home to bubbles mini sanctuary tomorrow. 180 miles round trip.

Then Saturday I'm going to pick up Eli and take him to The Farm Way Sunday morning. 970 miles.

And Monday evening we have an emergency transport for mama and her 3 babies to go to whippoorwill hill farm and will be an overnight transport. 1050 mile transport.

I got volunteers for the transports for load ins for every piggie, but gas donations and will need more straw for all these piggies this next week for the pig van. 🤗🐖

To donate we have:
paypal at [email protected]
Venmo at lexi-ritchie
And cashapp at vegan4love

18/10/2020

I really thought mister Bubbles was going to be a run for my travels, but boy was I wrong. I must have caught him on a good day 😅

Don't let him fool you, he's got about 3 or 4 inch tusks, so he's not playing around if we got annoyed and fed up with us. Thankfully he's food driven so he was a super easy load in. Honestly in my top 3 of best load ins. A handful of treats and he hopped his butt right in. We carried the crate right over to my car and that was it.
Spent more time chit chatting with the surrendering parents than actually load in. 💗

Bubbles, will be named sparks and heading to bubbles mini sanctuary, but tonight he'll be going to a vet to get a full evaluation before coming to his forever home. Tons of more updates from him. My kids are always asking to go visit bubbles again so a trip to visit him and my other pigs out there in the future. 😄🥰

18/10/2020

Georgia Peach journey, I'd like to say that no two transport load in are the same, and man oh man is that true. Pictures didn't do justice of the size of her. She was going to be a crate transport because she often bites, and i didn't have my car modified to be a tarp and straw transport. She was too long for the crate so we made do. After some time of trying to get her up my ramp and into the crate, we ended up putting the crate on the ground and shoving her into the crate, until we realized her butt was hanging out and we couldn't shut the crate. We bungee the door shut to slide the cage up my 6 foot long ramp to load her into my car, than using my hatch as the 'door' to keep her sectioned off to one area of my car. I'm so thankful for the surrendering parents as both of them were a huge huge help in load in, and their awesome neighbor to come help load Georgia peach into my van.
Once she realized what was happening she took a nap for her 3 hour journey to her new home.

Unloading was a lot easier than loading, Todd on the farm pulled the crate out, as I pushed it out, and slid it down my ramp, she ended up scooting right out once she got the idea of what was going on. All the pigs (and the goats) were super curious of her right away, she was walking all around the field right away.

She'll be getting her manicure to those hooves soon and be toning her figure and be making friends in no time. Can't wait to see updates on her next time I'm at the farm. 😄🐷💗

18/10/2020

2 week old babies?!?😇😍