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The Sanctuary at Soledad Goats, Where Every Animal Has a Home. A vegan farm animal sanctuary. We rescue abused, unwanted farm animals and neglected pets.
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Hours are by appointment. Please call us at (661)824-4514.

07/09/2024

Could we ask for a small little favor?

We promise this won't be too much to ask of you, but it would really help us out.

Julian and I found a great supplier, BUT, they are all the way in Georgia, which is a drive for us. The hay is great, the animals absolutely love it, and the price is obviously much, much cheaper than other suppliers here in Florida.

I know everyone says BUY LOCAL, but when it comes to feeding all of our animals, we have to do the cheaper option, especially if the hay is great quality, and our animals prefer this over the other batches of hay we purchased a month ago.

The small favor...

Could you spare one dollar today?

If we could get everyone that likes this post to donate just $1 right now, this would cover our travel costs, and help to purchase some of the hay.

The drive is roughly 3 hours roundtrip, and this extra mpney would help us pay for the additional gas, the XL trailer rental, and money towards the actual hay.

But everyone needs to be a part of this. If you've been reading our newsletter but haven't donated yet, could today be the day?

Asking for a dollar for this hay is almost like online panhandling, but this time it's for a very good cause, and we won't be annoying about it, we promise!

Send $1 to on Venmo to help us out!

or send $1 to paypal.me/sanctuaryatsoledad on PayPal to help!

09/08/2024

This could be the end...

We have some unfortunate news to share.

Although the hurricane this past week wasn't as bad as we initially thought, we were still devastated by strong winds.

Our secondary barn that we had just temporarily rebuilt, has been damaged once again. We are starting to feel helpless.

Many of you have been with us for years, and have seen our updates, newsletters, even spoke to us in person.

Running a Sanctuary is a very difficult life. Taking care of the animals is already an incredible task, but dealing with issues to our barns, and other property issues, is the straw that broke the camel's back as they say.

I don't know what else to do, asking for donations is only getting us so far, but it almost seems as if we have terrible luck.

Whenever we seem to get ahead by just a little bit, then we have another big issue to tackle, that isn't even related to taking care of our animals!

As sad as it was, we had all of our hay stored underneath the barn, and we had to move parts of the roof off the hay to feed today!

Please help us today. It will cost us at minimum $1500 to purchase supplies to fix up parts of the barn, not even the full structure. If we can get 30 donations of $50 each we can have it raised. We know we are asking for a lot but we are in really bad shape right now. (Since we sent our newsletter out earlier, we already are halfway there, can you believe it!? Just another $750 to go to get us our supplies!)

To donate: sanctuaryatsoledad.org/donate + paypal.me/sanctuaryatsoledad + Venmo:

We don't really know what else to do. Although we have some ideas on how to increase the amount of donors we have, we aren't sure if it will be enough of an increase to really care us forward into the next year.

We want to tell you all that we will be here in the future, but honestly at this rate, I dont know how it's possible.

I now understand why a lot of Sanctuaries have shut down, or on the verge of closing their doors. It's a lot of tough work, without making a lot of money to even fund the work, let alone have any money leftover for a livable wage.

If you can help today, please consider a donation. We have a lot of work ahead, and we need all the help we can get to build our barn back to a normal state.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE!

19/07/2024

kittens - https://mailchi.mp/sanctuaryatsoledad/kittens

08/06/2024

I thought I was gone (piglet picture to lighten the mood)

I had a heart-attack on Monday. As you know Julian and I are both getting up there in age. I am approaching 80 years old, and having a stint put in an artery that was 99% clogged really made me think about my life right now.

I love what I'm doing of course, but the amount of effort it takes to take care of 300+ animals on a daily basis is not for the faint-hearted (no pun intended). This is extremely tough work, that's why whenever I see new Sanctuaries popping up with younger owners, I get worried. I have been involved with animals my entire life, so this is nothing new. However, most people don't realize the shock when they understand all the work involved.

I am still here, thank God, and I don't know what to say about the incident. Maybe our diet hasn't been great, with more fats than usual, we do eat a lot of veggie burgers (Beyond + other brands) and unfortunately they are loaded with fat. Right now I am just trying to be calm, get rest, and thankfully we have some help that can take care of most of the work until I can move around a bit more.

Dealing with the pain I am in, in the sweltering heat feels unbearable but again this is not just about me. This is about us trying to do what's right and make as much of a change as we can on this Earth. In the meantime if you want to help me, you can help the Sanctuary get some hay. Many farms have just cut the hay, so it is perfect to feed to our animals.

If you can spare anything please help us buy some hay today, before we get paid through our monthly donations hopefully by the end of next week. I would love to have a truck deliver a bunch of bales.

Our delivery truck can carry a max of 32 bales of hay, and each bale costs roughly $60 + delivery fees, so about $65 per bale.

I don't know if we can get a full truckload, but that would help us for most of the summer with our hay feed, which is 75% of our animals.

If you can help with a bale of hay that would be wonderful and it would bring a smile to my face. Lord knows I haven't been smiling the past few days... thank you all and God Bless
paypal.me/sanctuaryatsoledad – venmo:

25/05/2024

Small little runt - https://mailchi.mp/sanctuaryatsoledad/small-little-runt

12/05/2024

Save this mother - https://mailchi.mp/sanctuaryatsoledad/save-this-mother

06/04/2024

Give this goat a chance

We hate to receive these calls, but we encouraged animal control in Mayo, FL to give us a call whenever they have a farm animal with nowhere to go. We get about 5-6 of these calls a year, and they are never great.

This little goat was left at an abandoned property, and the neighbors found this little girl huddled up next to their fence. They called animal control, and then they called us.

We received this picture just now before typing out this post
Our support levels have dropped significantly over the past 2 years.

We wanted to get the baby goat, but then we released we haven't got paid through Patreon, and a lot of our extra donations from last month are going to the new build of a barn on our property. Unfortunately as much as we wanted to pick her up, we need to worry about the animals we have.

The sad part about this rescue is that if this baby doesn't end up with us, they will more than likely get taken to a goat dairy farm, end up at the animal shelter, or worse be sent to a packing facility. We don't know where she will end up, but right now she is in a small crate awaiting her fate.

Please help us today if you can spare a few dollars. Everything we can raise today will go to bringing her home, we just don’t have the money right now. All of our bills have increased and we are doing everything we can to save $$$ but also give the same care / feed / vet attention to our animals. This is one of the most difficult times as a Sanctuary.

Please consider supporting us on Patreon. This number used to be above $5,000 per month and we have dropped to $3,000 over the past 2 years. This is our main source and we are dropping to scary low levels.

If you can donate please help at patreon.com/sanctuaryatsoledad or sanctuaryatsoledad.org/donate and paypal.me/sanctuaryatsoledad

06/04/2024

abandoned - https://mailchi.mp/sanctuaryatsoledad/abandoned

15/03/2024

I don't even know where to begin, this was devastating for us. Here is what happened on Monday of this week.

Our pig barn completely collapsed

After a few days of some strong winds (nothing we haven't seen before) We are assuming the barn collapsed when we were out getting feed in the morning on Monday.

By the grace of God, none of our pigs were hurt during this collapse. We think it happened slowly, and usually during the morning our pigs will hang out in the sun right outside the barn.

These pictures show it collapsed as of Wednesday, as it was not fully collapsed on Monday. We had moved our pigs to the other barn, once we noticed is was falling down.

We will need to do a fundraiser, sometime before summer.

With all the repairs and needed for many of our barn fixtures, and other issues around our Sanctuary, we will definitely need to do a Gofundme or something similar very soon to raise enough to support a huge repair effort and rebuild S.a.S.

Things are just not looking great right now…

What we will do:

To rebuild that entire barn enclosure would be too expensive for us to even entertain. In reality it was only our pigs that were inside, so we want to build something much smaller for them, and then we can actually afford it and maintain it much better than something so large.

We are going to need to tap into our monthly donation funds to get most of the repairs done, but we will need some help. Anything you can donate is going to go right back to material costs, labour to build, and building before the summer heat comes in. Please help. This will cost us a few thousand to start rebuilding, so anything you can donate today will help.

Please help us by visiting sanctuaryatsoledad.org/donate or paypal.me/sanctuaryatsoledad or Venmo:

God Bless.

09/03/2024

Gotta have Faith - https://mailchi.mp/sanctuaryatsoledad/gotta-have-faith

23/02/2024

For us we never really had a traditional Easter meal, this was when I was growing up as a kid. I think we just prepared something simple but unfortunately there was always some animal involved. I didn't really know 'leg of lamb' was a tradition for an Easter meal.

However once I noticed a few ads on Facebook Marketplace for 'Easter Meals' showing a picture of a lamb, I knew something was going on.
After getting the address of one of the people putting up the ads for the sheep pictures, I showed up unannounced to their farm mid week. It was on our way to Gainesville.

When we got there we saw a very small farm and we could see behind the clearing some lambs all huddled up in a small pen. As sad as it was to see all these poor lamb just confused, scared, and without fresh grass to stand on, I realized I needed to take one of them with me.

Eventually someone came out of the house, and I asked them if I could take the 'injured' lamb. (I was lying, hoping the farmer would think the lamb had no value)

They told me that they were struggling to find anyone to buy their lambs and that they knew I looked like a farmer and that this lamb would get a 'good home' by coming with me.
I was so surprised, I just shook my head and said that would be great! I thought I was going to be tricked somehow as I made space for the lamb in the back of the truck, but sure enough I proceeded to pick up the lamb and load her in the back of the truck.

I was still in shock when the man said, "I hope you guys have a wonderful Easter dinner!" and I just said, 'Sure will!" knowing in my head that this was still such a confusing encounter that I better just go along with it…
A few things I learned from this rescue:

- Many small farmers are struggling and just dumping animals, or selling them for next to nothing.

- People still consume lamb for Easter, and there will many lamb that are being raised now to be sold just before Easter in April.

- This lamb was extremely lucky and this type of a rescue will probably never happen again.

To help name this new little lamb, please send a note with any donation to Venmo: or paypal.me/sanctuaryatsoledad or sanctuaryatsoledad.org/donate

THANK YOU FOR READING AND BEING A PART OF COMPASSION

09/02/2024

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

As sad as most of our rescues are, this little guy never had a chance. He never got to meet his momma, and he definitely was not going to have a free life.

This poor little baby was almost given to a Caribbean restaurant. We don't know if he is lame because he cannot stand. This is really sad.

We were at the feed store and one of the associates knows us by name and we talk to her frequently.

She told us there was a man who came by holding a baby goat asking if there was anyway he could drop it off because it couldn't walk, and he didn't have the time or energy to take care of him.

Luckily she gave us a text about this asking us if we wanted the baby. The man had no other options and was going to drop him off at a local Caribbean restaurant where they take his lame goats from time to time. What a horrible way to 'fix' a problem. Wow, was I surprised, but it hasn't been the first time we dealt with this restaurant.

Anyway luckily the man left the goat at the store and we came to pick him up 20 minutes later. Here he is, innocent as can be.
We haven't had a completely lame goat in a long time. This baby can't really move any of his legs. We are concerned but we have a plan of action, if you can help us.

He needs emergency colostrum, we can usually find these in a packet form. We used up our last batch on our last rescue, because we typically give a few packets of it to our newborns that are showing signs of extreme weakness.

Next is if the baby is indeed lame, or at least has some movement in their legs, we might get a full body mobility cart for the baby. Similar to a wheelchair, it takes the weight off the baby's legs and they can move around and try to build their muscles up.

All in all we can pay for half of the expenses, and raising another $150 can help us pay for the rest, give or take.

Please if you haven’t helped in a while or you are reading this post and care about an innocent baby goat, consider leaving a $1 and a prayer. We are counting on all you prayers to help this little one recover. Right now he can’t move so we need a miracle to make this happen!

Send any help to our Venmo: or PayPal: paypal.me/sanctuaryatsoledad

Or visit sanctuaryatsoledad.org/donate

God bless you all, and thank you for helping today.

03/02/2024

living the good life - https://mailchi.mp/sanctuaryatsoledad/living-the-good-life

13/01/2024

I haven’t had emotions like this in a while, but it was completely unexpected. I found myself at our local farmer's market, which is very small, just there to pick up feed for the animals and produce.

Thats when I saw a vendor with a small pig inside a tiny cage on the table, with a banner on the table, "WE SELL WHAT WE RAISE" and immediately walked over just too confused for words.

The man behind the table was busy with a customer so I started taking pictures of the most innocent pig I've ever seen. Never have I seen such a tiny cage for a piglet that looked about 4-6 weeks old. Clearly too big for the cage, and an incredibly dirty cage as well. I thought, this is Edgar Jr!

Once he saw what I was doing, he asked me if I needed any help, and I said, "No, I'M okay, but this poor little guy needs space.”

He replied, "He can't be walking to much or he will get too lean, we want him fattened up!" and smiled while he said this..

At that point I lost it, I told him what I did for a living, and how this was one of the most messed up things I've seen in my time, all the while selling his dead brothers and sisters packed up out of an Igloo cooler.
He told me that he felt sorry for me, and that his animals were treated with the most respect, and killed in the most humane way possible.

My jaw dropped at that point I was talking to a madman, and I just wanted to see what could be done with the piglet.
he fact that this piglet was almost identical looking to our big boy Edgar, was more than enough to know this was fate, and I needed this poor guy.

I said to the man, "...look we can have our differences, but I want to know how much for this little guy"

He said, "Because you were so rude to start, the price for you is $200"

I walked away feeling horrible, knowing I couldn’t get him right then.

I didn't sleep at all last night thinking about the little Edgar, and I really need all the help I can get. Please please please help me raise this $200 so I can rescue him. I normally wouldn't have done this but he needs to be here in the Sanctuary, and he needs to meet his long lost brother Edgar! To help please send a donation to:
sanctuaryatsoledad.org/donate
paypal.me/sanctuaryatsoledad
venmo.com/sanctuaryatsoledad
HELP US BRING HOME EDGAR JR!

13/01/2024

In tears, need help - https://mailchi.mp/sanctuaryatsoledad/save-sanctuary-13361319

31/12/2023

Hello there, and Happy New Year (in a few hours)

I just wanted to thank you again for being with us this year, it has been a very rough year for us as a Sanctuary.

For years we would set up our canopy and bring a few animals with us to the Grove in Los Angeles, and we would let the shoppers meet a real pig or goat face to face and have a personal connection with a farm animal. The Grove helped us raise awareness for our Sanctuary, and helped us survive in months with lower donations.

Our old location in Mojave, California was limited to about an acre. Here in Florida we have almost 10 acres and more if we need to purchase some. Our old location was not suitable for animals at all. The harsh winters and winds were almost unbearable for a lot of our animals and it was not fair to them. We needed to move for our animals, and to save money in the future.
2023 was a down year for us.

With all the great things that Florida brought to us, we have been suffering quite a bit this year. Overall donations are down 28%, recurring donations are down almost 40%. Florida is a much cheaper area to operate in, however with donations down this much, we are extremely worried that next year would be the end of our Sanctuary.

Our door would be closed to any new rescues by the end of January, and we will have to move some of our animals to other sanctuaries/rescues during the year.
This is the sad truth of our current status. We saw great increases in donations from 2018-2020. Then from 2020 - 2021 a small drop. 2021-2022 was another small drop.

But from the start of the year to now has been our largest drop in donations. The fact is, if we cannot figure out a solution by next month, we are going to be forced to make huge changes, which makes me incredibly sad looking at the future.

We hope you were able to better understand the current severity of our situation.
If you have read this far please consider a year end donation today, to help us make it into the next year, and beyond.
To make a year end contribution please visit sanctuaryatsoledad.org/donate or paypal.me/sanctuaryatsoledad and Venmo:

THANK YOU and have a blessed and Happy New Year!

08/12/2023

These little ones need us, but we cannot help them right now.
We are at around $30 in our checking, waiting for our monthly deposit from Patreon to hit our account, but probably won't happen until next week. In the meantime these little ones need us.

They were dropped off at our feed store that we purchase all of our feed and supplies from, they were left out back near their dumpster in a small wire cage, with a piece of paper saying, "FREE" on them. Such a despicable act towards another creature. Although we offered to take them in yesterday, we are completely out of medical supplies.
They are the runts, we can tell because they are so fragile and so weak. That's the only real reason they were dropped off, is that the owners knew they wouldn't amount to much 'pig' to sell.

Such a sad state of the world we find ourselves in, but we must move on. These little ones need us. They were more than likely from the same litter and one looks to be a boy and the other a girl. Brother and sister.

We want to get them anti fungal creams, and also dewormers. Also 2 more heating pads (our dogs/goats find them and destroy them almost immediately). Maybe a supplement for newborn animals as well. All in all we need about $150-$200 to purchase these items.

Can you help us, help them? If so please please please use any donation below. (Please read on at the bottom…)

- paypal.me/sanctuaryatsoledad

- Venmo:

- sanctuaryatsoledad.org/donate

Read more updates in the comments, thank you for helping this brother and sister today.

08/12/2023

Who would do this? - https://mailchi.mp/sanctuaryatsoledad/who-would-do-this

29/11/2023

Instead of just helping us today on Giving Tuesday, we would like you to help someone more deserving of your direct support.

We ask for your help to go towards this innocent creature. We came across this goat at the kill pen, and we realized he probably didn't have much time. We had no idea of the level of pain this poor goat was in. He can't even stand properly, until we discovered what was the problem...

At the kill pen where he remained for almost a week before I was able to get him picked up properly with the help of a few people and a large tarp, he wasn't able to move, just lying in dirt.

I knew I had to give him a chance to have a free life, but unfortunately he is too weak to move around, even while at our Sanctuary.

I feel so bad for him, but I'm not sure what can be done to his leg. Below you will notice that the leg is almost rotting to an extent. The wound has been slightly infected from whenever this sore originally developed, and it is just causing so much pain and discomfort that he can't get up.

Your help today on Giving Tuesday, goes right to this goat that absolutely needs help right now. All money raised today goes to this newly rescued goat and his painful leg sore, please help him out.

Depending on how much we can raise we will have our vet out and see how it can be treated. The absolute last thing I want to do is amputate it, so I want to see if we can get him help now and get some antibiotics to help. It seems like he's had this for some time now, so I don't know how effective it will be.

Beyond that we will obviously do all we can, but as we approach the very end of the month, we are at almost nothing in funds.

To help this poor guy today, you can send directly to Venmo: or paypal.me/sanctuaryatsoledad
or visit sanctuaryatsoledad.org/donate

If you can help on this Giving Tuesday, and have your donations go towards this poor innocent creature, then we could use all the help we can give him. Most of you might be unaware, but male goats are typically useless in the animal ag industry. Wherever he came from the people were more than fine to see him sit and die at a holding pen. Probably from a small time dairy farm.

17/11/2023

Hey there, hopefully your Friday is a little better than ours. We are doing okay today, still haven't got over the traumatic loss of our little baby goat that we only got to know for a few days...but unfortunately we must move on, as best we can. Too many animals count on us, and too many more animals need our help.

We need a Turkey for this Thanksgiving. We haven't been lucky enough to rescue a turkey besides our last rescue named Lucky (that's a confusing sentence!). I believe that was almost 4 years ago, but I could be wrong. Anyways, we have the chance to bring home 2 Turkeys this year!

We were lucky enough to find a place that was trying to get rid of these turkeys because they were on the skinny side, so they didn't make it to the processing facility, thankfully.

This person on Craigslist wanted to let them go for $150 because they are 'homegrown' and 'free range' whatever that really means because they sent us pictures of them in a cage...

Anwyays we want to bring them home in time for Thanksgiving, and it would be great to pick them up today if possible. If we can raise $150 in the next hour we can go and pick them up. They are under an hour drive from us outside Gainesville near Newberry.

Help us bring them home. Venmo: or paypal.me/sanctuaryatsoledad or click the link in the bio.

More thoughts...We looked up the average price of a turkey today in grocery stores and it comes out to slightly under $30. We thought what a sick a twisted world that a turkey's entire life comes down to just a budget friendly option for Thanksgiving.

Obviously it's the same for every other animal, it's just this one weird holiday (that we sadly were a part of for our entire lives) involves the body of the dead turkey as the centerpiece at the table.

What's ever worse is that at all the Thanksgivings I've attended in my life, there was an abundance of vegetables and fruits unlike any other holiday. Carrots, sweet potatoes, green beans, corn, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and so on. It could be a vegan holiday minus the one main dead bird, which lets be honest, people never really liked eating Turkey anyway...

15/11/2023

Rest in peace

Sorry we have been absent on here for the past week, but we had to lay to rest a tiny little angel only wanted to live, nothing more.

We let many of you know via our newsletter that we had brought in a baby goat who we believe did not receive the colostrum from her mom. Symptoms are kind of the same from many of the baby goats we have dealt with. Extreme lethargy, weakness mixed with a pain in the joints, sleeping more than usual, cant prop themselves up on their own legs, diarrhea, and so on. These are the main things we look for, and they we can help the baby out with an emergency colostrum packet.

However this baby really broke our hearts, we thought she was going to make it...

After we let all of you know about her on Friday we picked her up later that day. That night was difficult, as we thought she had passed away in the middle of the night. First thing we did was give her the emergency colostrum packet, which was almost impossible because she didn’t really want to swallow anything. But she took most of the packet and then we had her on a heating pad the rest of the night. We woke up and we didn’t see her moving, but luckily she opened her eyes, and we let out a sigh of relief.

On Tuesday morning we actually thought she was in good health. She moved around a lot more, was standing on her own, and even hopped around just for a few minutes, so we had smiled to ourselves thinking that we had saved her. Well this morning we woke up and she was just lifeless, and we thought she was just weak. That’s when we realized she wasn’t going to move anymore.

I can’t express to you how horrible it is to see something so tiny, vulnerable, fragile, and innocent to just see the very last bits of life taken from her. It’s something that hits you in the middle of your heart and you just can’t express the sadness or despair you feel. We are truly sorry for not being able to save you little angel. And we are truly sorry to all of you that helped us this past week get her supplies, we let you all down.

This is going to hurt for a few days I’ll tell you that. I’ve seen quite a few animals pass before my eyes, but each time it happens it only hurts even more.

03/11/2023

Our truck is dead

As luck would have it, we are having one of our biggest emergencies yet, our truck is unable to move.

It broke down this week and left me stranded on the side of the road about 30 minutes away. We had to sell our other truck to pay for feed and vet bills so we have just our one truck.

Feed runs are paused until then

Our biggest problem with our truck being out of commission is that now our feed runs are paused until we can get transportation. Of course I can have someone deliver the feed but that adds another $100 for just the pig feed, and then another $150 for our hay.

So it really helps to make our own feed pickups because we save a bunch of money that could go towards other important things.

Our monthly Patreon will not deposit for another week so we are stuck here hoping to get our truck repaired in the meantime. We don't want to wait another week to get the initial repair money and then have a week of us just wishing and waiting for our truck to start the repair.

Unfortunately our mechanic believes that the engine is done. It had close to 200,000 miles on it, and we picked it up used, so we aren't sure how the truck was treated previously.

Anyways do do an engine swap is costly but we are hoping that we can continue to try to raise lots of smaller donations by all of our newsletter readers.

We need to raise at least $500 today to get our truck in the shop, and then hopefully we can have an engine swapped and pay the balance by next week, when our Patreon support deposits into our account.

If you can help all donation links can be found in our bio, or just visit sanctuaryatsoledad.org/donate

20/10/2023

Not again... - https://mailchi.mp/sanctuaryatsoledad/not-again

06/10/2023

Reunited and it feels so good...

After we picked up our little pink pig who needed our help, we got a call a few days later about another piglet...

Came from the same place?

This little baby is suffering from the same respiratory infection as our other piglet, and lucky we have all the necessary medication/supplements at our disposal.

This poor piggie probably came from the same hog farm, as they are almost roughly the same age and both ended up at the same holding pen. We've been noticing a lot of these small farm operations close their doors due to the surging price of feed and late payments on their property.

Now our little guy has a brother to play with and they are now sleeping together!

How the treatment has been going

It was probably one of the quickest turnarouns we have seen in a piglet especially one that was so frail and full of so much muscous and congestion.

After giving him a round of antibiotics from Sunday-Tuesday we noticed on Wednesday he was squealing in our arms, and running laps in his little pen! He was FULL of energy, we couldn't believe it.

We want to thank everyone for the incredibly kind donations, and thoughtful messages of support towards him.

We will start our little Black piglet on a round of antibiotics to clear out his small congestion.

He is not anywhere close to as bad as our pink piglet.

Keep both of them in your prayers, and again THANK YOU for allowing us the ability to continue our dream of rescuing all animals in need. Your donations mean everything to us!

We need names for the 2 piggies, so if you donated last week, or want to donate today, please leave a comment below on your choice of name for one of the two piglets!!!!

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HELP OUT SUMMER, THE 3 LEGGED PIG! She is an old soul, and has such a beautiful heart. She was going to be put downe she is in so much pain, but we could not let that happen. Summer was in the back of the truck when we went shopping for feed, and we spoke to the truck driver who said the pig was going to be dropped off at a kill-pen to see if there were any takers. We didn't want to see her go that route, so we said, "OF COURSE WE WILL TAKE HER!" We brought Summer in on Tuesday afternoon, and have been observing her while she is in the goat pen. Summer came from a hobby farm that also acted as a petting zoo. The owners of the farm did not treat the animals well, and in fact were so neglectful that they ran over poor Summer's leg when she was a young pig, and it was amputated on after the accident crushed the entire leg. She was kept in a small fenced in area and only interacted with people when they had visitors tour the farm. She was found sitting in her own waste, that's how small the area was. She is a big potbelly and her weight makes it very hard for her to hop and move on just one rear leg. After watching her during this week we can say that he is dealing with something intestinal, not directly linked to her leg. Summer cries out after she is done eating, and she really just picks at the food as if she is trying to get our attention. We want to help her and get her on some dewormer and other anti-parasite supplements. The more popular dewormer is Ivermectin, however it is in short supply at most animal feed supply stores as well as online. We also want to get her on a vitamin regimen as well as a fortified feed blend that might be more gentle on her intestinal tract. We will need to raise $135 to pay for the Ivomec 50mL (around $50) and the Safe-guard Pig Dewormer bag of crumbles (around $75). Please help Summer today. We are behind on vet bills and therefore we might not be able to afford to have the vet come out, but we believe we can cure her ailmen

Take two. Haha. This time with a head!

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