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Wilbur Gene's Pig Place 1-Stop-Shop for Rooting Products & all things Piggy! Piggy approved items, designed by a pig parent with the love of a Mini Pig in mind!
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Rugs,Balls,Toys,Grooming Supplies,Hoof Supplies, Starter Kits,Etc. This shop and everything within it was inspired by our pet mini pig, Wilbur Gene!

“Every Experience, Good or Bad, is a Priceless Collector’s Item..” –Isaac Marion

If you research online, you are guaranteed to find yourself quickly bombarded with information on various topics regarding mini pigs. You will find opinions from multi

ple different suppliers, breeders, and just individuals who feel as though they have some information to provide. While a lot of this information has proven very valuable to me, it took the experience of personally being a mini pig parent before I began to figure out what types of things worked well, what worked somewhat, and what didn’t really work at all. Throughout my experience I have wasted a lot of time, which is something most of us seem to have very little of, researching these things. I have also spent an insane amount of money on products, only to find out that my piggy wanted absolutely nothing to do with them, or to find out that the products were poorly made and didn’t hold up for very long. My experiences led me to the decision that I wanted to create a place (FOR ALL THINGS PIGGY) that pig parents could come to as a ONE STOP SHOP; a place created by and operated by a pig parent; a place that sells products that are the exact same kind as those used and loved by other mini pigs; a place that you will want to keep coming back to. While deciding upon the specific items that I wanted to stock my online store with, I started thinking back to the day that I brought Wilbur, my pet mini pig, home and the things that I needed immediate access to. I then thought about the things that I have needed as I have watched Wilbur grow. I now plan to carry these items in my store, and will be listing them as quickly as I am able to. The items can be purchased individually or in bundle packs. I will be providing additional details on the bundle packs very soon! While I intend to continue to build my inventory & stock my store with several items, this all got started with the production of our rugs for rooting (Keep em' Busy™ Mats), which was later followed by the creation and production of our Balls for Rooting & Rolling (Root'n'Roll™). Each of these items can be viewed in our photo albums and can be ordered by sending us a message. I learned a lot about rugs and mats for rooting/enrichment/treat dispensing through purchasing 3 different rugs for Wilbur to find out that each one was cheaply constructed. It was very disappointing to watch as the material got all stringy and balled up. After feeling as though I had completely wasted my money as I watched the rugs fall apart within a short amount of time, along with that fact that I had spoken with several individuals whose pigs and dogs had completely demolished rugs and mats in the past due to the poor construction of the product, I decided to toss what was left of the mats I had purchased and personally make a rug for my special little piggy… I decided, after learning what a time consuming process it was going to be, that if I was going to make a rug, it was going to be one that was going to last. Therefore, I researched what would be the best mat to use and finally discovered a heavy-duty product that has worked very well! Wilbur uses his rug a lot and isn’t very easy with it, but yet it still looks as good as it does the day that I gave it to him. After I constructed Wilbur’s rug, it sparked the interest of several people who saw photos of it, as well as those who saw it when they stopped by my house. Several friends began to ask what I would charge to make one for their pet. I made a few and continued to receive more interest so I decided that I was going to start making them to sell and things continued to grow and progress from that point forward. So far, I have received nothing but positive feedback from all of my customers and they have expressed extreme satisfaction with my product. It always warms my heart when they send photos of their piggies using my rugs! After this adventure, on came the Root’n’Roll balls…

I hope that we can be of help to you and your pet. Further information can be found on our page and/or by sending us a private message. Thanks so much for stopping by and we hope to be working on an order for you very soon!

Happy Thursday, Friends! Wilbur here.... I'm hoping that I get to go home soon, but I gave everyone a pretty big scare...
03/11/2023

Happy Thursday, Friends! Wilbur here.... I'm hoping that I get to go home soon, but I gave everyone a pretty big scare today..... I don't want to get caught on here, when I'm supposed to be resting, so I'll just share my mom's language from her post to update you all.... Thanks for thinking of me and keeping me in your prayers.... Until next time.... 💙🐽💙🐽

Momma's Words:
Wilbur gave us all quite the scare today. He isn't out of the woods yet but the doctors are optimistic that he is going to pull through this. After he seemed to have lost function of his back end, it was very concerning. Praise God though, his CT Scan was clear! However, his labs did show that his CK levels are pretty high. CK is a protein released from muscle and the main problem it causes is kidney damage, so that's the thing to keep an eye on. They placed an IV catheter in Wilbur's jugular vein so they have easier and direct access to get him hydrated (which is very crucial right now), and also so that they can help keep him comfortable with medication, as well as be able to do lab draws quickly and easily (this is very important as they will continue to check his Creatinine levels and monitor his kidney function). The CK levels should drop quickly as long as his kidney function continues to remain stable and he stays hydrated.

Wilbur woke up while hubby and I were in his stall and I was able to feed him watermelon and bananas that we had brought. That was a promising thing to see also.

Things can always take a turn for the worse so please just keep praying. I am trying to stay positive. I thank God first and foremost, and I also thank all of you for your thoughts and prayers. My husband and I are both blessed to have employers who are understanding and care!! I have received multiple texts from coworkers and even 2 of my bosses today who were worried sick about Wilbur. I talk about him and share so many photos constantly that he has almost become the company mascot with main employer, as well as my primary client.

Lastly, but DEFINITELY not least, I can never thank the staff at Purdue for everything they have done and are still doing..... There are a lot of people in this world who do their job and do it well, but then there are those who go above and beyond that. Dr. Hawkins is a total Class Act, and I'm not sure how to spell the resident's last name who works with him... It's something like "Osemeke".... Dr. Osemeke... But she is a class act as well. Everyone we have encountered there have been absolutely amazing. They care about our boy and they also have been beyond patient and wonderful with his worried momma's many questions. I will never be able to say enough positive words about this place.

We are about halfway through the 3.5 hour trip back home now and I'm thanking God for the many blessings in my life.... and especially tonight for helping our piggy boy today. I will continue to pray hard that Wilbur heals and is home soon to continue to live out his very best life! 💙🐽🙏🐷🐖💙

02/11/2023

Hi Friends.... It has been awhile but I wanted to check in... We put the rug and toy making on hold a couple of years ago and never really picked it back up. With the extreme amount of time it takes to make a quality rooting rug, and the cost for supplies, it just wasn't something we could continue doing. However, as always, we would love to share the way we made our rugs so that you can easily make one for your own piggy; rather than paying big bucks for one that may easily fall apart. Not to say that there aren't a lot of great people out here making rugs that may be very high quality though.

20/09/2022

Calling upon our fellow pig people. Oinking Acres Farm Rescue & Sanctuary is an amazing place and they need your help. Please dig deep and help however you can. Olivia and her mom work endlessly trying to save so many pigs. They never rest. They need some additional funding. Please visit their page and send a donation. Thanks so much for your continued support.

https://fb.watch/fEZj4IxoKh/

17/03/2022

There has never been a better time to welcome a pig or two to into your home! Please consider adopting a pair of bonded pigs like Nanny & her son Robin. They are frequently overlooked and have been in our care for the last 3 years looking for a home 💔😭.

At OA we have 30+ adoptable pigs looking for their forever home. All pigs are fully vetted prior to adoption. If you’re interested in adopting please fill out an application. Our rescue is located in Brownsburg Indiana. We check box after box to ensure that pigs go to excellent homes & will be well cared for after they leave us. In addition, all our animals are placed in pet only homes. Our goal is to provide these animals with a safe, loving environment until they can be placed in forever homes with qualified owners.

To view all our adoptable animals, please follow this link: www.oinkingacres.org/adopt

Please share & help us find homes for the pigs!

The Man. The Myth. The Legend. The One and Only..... Wilbur Gene!Happy National Pig Day, Ya'll!!!!
02/03/2022

The Man. The Myth. The Legend. The One and Only..... Wilbur Gene!
Happy National Pig Day, Ya'll!!!!

15/02/2022

Indiana and Kentucky!* Get ready, we will be making our loop in March! We are planning on *March 7th-10th and the 21st-25th*. *Deadline for the trip Wednesday, February 23rd*, if you're not sure if your piggy needs a trim, you are welcome to send us a picture of its hooves and we would be happy to take a look.
Hoof trimming $35, Tusk trimming $45. This trips travel fee is $35-$40 per stop. We also service goats, sheep, parrots, llamas and alpaca, dogs etc., if you have any of those that need serviced (ask about their prices).
If you are interested and will be available during those dates, please send us a *private* message with your *NAME, ADDRESS and NUMBER*, along with how many animals need serviced and what needs done.
*Late inquires or incomplete contacts will have to wait for our next trip in six months.*

New Shirts for Sale..... Message us with color, size, and shipping address... $ 20.00
06/02/2022

New Shirts for Sale..... Message us with color, size, and shipping address... $ 20.00

Check out and "Like" this page..... for all of you fellow dog lovers out there. We share both the love of piggies and ...
28/01/2022

Check out and "Like" this page..... for all of you fellow dog lovers out there. We share both the love of piggies and doggies...

https://www.facebook.com/107734325067364/posts/131832669324196/

Do NOT go to bed tonight thinking, "oh, my pet will be okay outside..".... Do NOT try to distract yourself so you don't have to think about your pet being outside. IF YOU HAVE A PET, THEN IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KEEP IT WARM!!! WE HAVE OFFERED DOG HOUSES AT NO CHARGE, SO LACK OF MONEY IS NO EXCUSE..... It is supposed to be around 10 degrees tonight! To put it bluntly, it is pure evil to leave your pets out in this, without proper shelter.... So, stop what you are doing and go bring your pet inside... Yes, it may be somewhat of an inconvenience to some of you, but I'm sure it is a much bigger inconvenience to your pet to sit outside in these temperatures, suffering and slowly freezing to death.... Have a Heart! Don't be Evil!!!


29/11/2021

Would you have any interest in piggy themed shirts, hoodies; tumblers, signs and other items; if we were to start carrying them in the store?

BLACK FRIDAY SALE! STOCK UP ON YOUR GOODIES FOR CHRISTMAS!! Message us to place your order.....
26/11/2021

BLACK FRIDAY SALE! STOCK UP ON YOUR GOODIES FOR CHRISTMAS!! Message us to place your order.....

Message us to stock up on your Rooting supplies today..... We have some items in stock, ready to be shipped; or we can ...
13/11/2021

Message us to stock up on your Rooting supplies today..... We have some items in stock, ready to be shipped; or we can customize your order with your choice of colors....

Christmas Stockings are back! Order Yours Today and take the guess work on what to get your piggy for Christmas!! 💙🐷
09/11/2021

Christmas Stockings are back! Order Yours Today and take the guess work on what to get your piggy for Christmas!! 💙🐷

Christmas Stockings are back! Order Yours Today and take the guess work on what to get your piggy for Christmas!! 💙🐷
08/11/2021

Christmas Stockings are back! Order Yours Today and take the guess work on what to get your piggy for Christmas!! 💙🐷

TO ORDER: Message us with the following info... 1. The email address you would like your PayPal invoice sent to. 2. The ...
08/11/2021

TO ORDER: Message us with the following info... 1. The email address you would like your PayPal invoice sent to. 2. The name and address you would like the order shipped to. 3. The items you would like to order, as well as any color preferences.

*******Keep your pet busy and happy with one of our colorful Keep em’ Busy Mats.... These rugs are the perfect place to hide treats, or even an entire meal, for your pet to root through the strands of fleece to find. Perfect for dispensing small treats such as raisins, oats, banana chips, cheerios, and so much more. Also excellent for slowly dispensing your pet’s entire meal.
Our aim is to create items for our pets that the pet truly enjoys and will do so for years to come... As always, before launching this product for sale, our own Wilbur Gene has tested and approved his own mat (he received his own Keep em’ Busy Mat, as one of our first products ever created, and he still enjoys it daily)… Check out the “REVIEWS” section of our page, to see what other customers are saying about our products… Our products are made to order and made to last with durable and high quality materials.
Our Treat-Dispensing products have been a huge success with piggies, dogs, and even cats!! Get your Keep em’ Busy™ Mat for Rooting, today!

20/10/2021

TO ORDER: Message us with the following info... 1. The email address you would like your PayPal invoice sent to. 2. The name and address you would like the order shipped to. 3. The items you would like to order, as well as any color preferences.

*******Keep your pet busy and happy with one of our colorful Keep em’ Busy Mats.... These rugs are the perfect place to hide treats, or even an entire meal, for your pet to root through the strands of fleece to find. Perfect for dispensing small treats such as raisins, oats, banana chips, cheerios, and so much more. Also excellent for slowly dispensing your pet’s entire meal.
Our aim is to create items for our pets that the pet truly enjoys and will do so for years to come... As always, before launching this product for sale, our own Wilbur Gene has tested and approved his own mat (he received his own Keep em’ Busy Mat, as one of our first products ever created, and he still enjoys it daily)… Check out the “REVIEWS” section of our page, to see what other customers are saying about our products… Our products are made to order and made to last with durable and high quality materials.
Our Treat-Dispensing products have been a huge success with piggies, dogs, and even cats!! Get your Keep em’ Busy™ Mat for Rooting, today!

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This shop and everything within it was inspired by our pet mini pig, Wilbur Gene! “Every Experience, Good or Bad, is a Priceless Collector’s Item..” –Isaac Marion If you research online, you are guaranteed to find yourself quickly bombarded with information on various topics regarding mini pigs. You will find opinions from multiple different suppliers, breeders, and just individuals who feel as though they have some information to provide. While a lot of this information has proven very valuable to me, it took the experience of personally being a mini pig parent before I began to figure out what types of things worked well, what worked somewhat, and what didn’t really work at all. Throughout my experience I have wasted a lot of time, which is something most of us seem to have very little of, researching these things. I have also spent an insane amount of money on products, only to find out that my piggy wanted absolutely nothing to do with them, or to find out that the products were poorly made and didn’t hold up for very long. My experiences led me to the decision that I wanted to create a place (FOR ALL THINGS PIGGY) that pig parents could come to as a ONE STOP SHOP; a place created by and operated by a pig parent; a place that sells products that are the exact same kind as those used and loved by other mini pigs; a place that you will want to keep coming back to. While deciding upon the specific items that I wanted to stock my online store with, I started thinking back to the day that I brought Wilbur, my pet mini pig, home and the things that I needed immediate access to. I then thought about the things that I have needed as I have watched Wilbur grow. I now plan to carry these items in my store, and will be listing them as quickly as I am able to. The items can be purchased individually or in bundle packs. I will be providing additional details on the bundle packs very soon! While I intend to continue to build my inventory & stock my store with several items, this all got started with the production of our rugs for rooting (Keep em' Busy™ Mats), which was later followed by the creation and production of our Balls for Rooting & Rolling (Root'n'Roll™). Each of these items can be viewed in our photo albums and can be ordered by sending us a message. I learned a lot about rugs and mats for rooting/enrichment/treat dispensing through purchasing 3 different rugs for Wilbur to find out that each one was cheaply constructed. It was very disappointing to watch as the material got all stringy and balled up. After feeling as though I had completely wasted my money as I watched the rugs fall apart within a short amount of time, along with that fact that I had spoken with several individuals whose pigs and dogs had completely demolished rugs and mats in the past due to the poor construction of the product, I decided to toss what was left of the mats I had purchased and personally make a rug for my special little piggy… I decided, after learning what a time consuming process it was going to be, that if I was going to make a rug, it was going to be one that was going to last. Therefore, I researched what would be the best mat to use and finally discovered a heavy-duty product that has worked very well! Wilbur uses his rug a lot and isn’t very easy with it, but yet it still looks as good as it does the day that I gave it to him. After I constructed Wilbur’s rug, it sparked the interest of several people who saw photos of it, as well as those who saw it when they stopped by my house. Several friends began to ask what I would charge to make one for their pet. I made a few and continued to receive more interest so I decided that I was going to start making them to sell and things continued to grow and progress from that point forward. So far, I have received nothing but positive feedback from all of my customers and they have expressed extreme satisfaction with my product. It always warms my heart when they send photos of their piggies using my rugs! After this adventure, on came the Root’n’Roll balls… I hope that we can be of help to you and your pet. Further information can be found on our page and/or by sending us a private message.

We carry a wide variety of options for your pet, including but not limited to: Rooting Products (mats & balls), harnesses, slow feed bowls, brushes, and so much more. We have also just recently launched our new addition, Monthly Piggy Box Subscriptions: Goodies delivered right to your door...

Thanks so much for stopping by and we hope to be working on an order for you very soon! Message us with any questions that you have or to place an order...