Little Oink Bank Pig Sanctuary

09/04/2025

What looks like a boring pile of gravel is really the exciting start of some major repairs we’ve been waiting all winter to start.

07/04/2025

Happy Monday from Momma. 💖

05/04/2025

Apologies for the radio silence. I’ve been flat out at work as it is our big Lordco Tradeshow and things are wild. The good news is I got to head down to Vancouver to do it all first-hand. And visit dear friends I haven’t seen in too long.

And recover from it all with some The Sprouted Oven vegan goodies on the way home.

02/04/2025

Just a boy and his dad. 💖

31/03/2025

Happy Power Monday from Momma. 💖👀

30/03/2025

AMAZING NEWS from Ziggy’s!

It takes these big organizations with their dedicated humans to make the kinds of changes we need to see. As bad as it is in the US, it’s even worse in Canada for adequate care for pigs.

‼️👏This is one of the largest impacts we could ever have on farm animal medicine, and it’s finally happening.‼️👏

For years, we’ve seen the heartbreaking reality of outdated veterinary practices, the lack of shared medical advancements, and the countless animals who have suffered needlessly because universities and hospitals refuse to work together. For too long sanctuaries and others who care for farmed animals like family have pushed for more advanced treatments and have had huge but isolated successes. The information is unfortunately never shared among other facilities and the success is unfortunately limited to one animal missing the opportunity to advance the medicine. The loss of Homer—and so many others—should have never happened.

And yet, it keeps happening.

But this is how we change it!!

Last week, in one of the most serendipitous moments of our lives, we were on the phone with Kyrsten Pizani, a woman grieving the loss of her pig at Tufts due to sedation—the exact thing we are fighting to stop. We talked about the frustration, the outdated protocols, the overwhelming need for access to better information. Writing our business plan for The River Center For Compassionate Care, one main objective was to develop a shared database for these cases. And at the end of the conversation our mouth hit the floor, Kyrsten said something that left us speechless:

“Kristin, I’m a software engineer. If you want to build that database, I will build it for you.”
Then she said, “And my brother is a software engineer too. He wants to help.”

Then she said, “And our mom is highly technical. She wants to help import medical records.”

Just like that, the thing we’ve been dreaming of—the thing that could change the future of farm animal medicine—became possible.

For the first time ever, we have a real opportunity to create a centralized, searchable medical database where sanctuaries, pet owners, and veterinarians can share life-saving medical records from around the world. No more isolated success stories. No more guessing games. No more unnecessary deaths.

Imagine a vet facing an urgent, complex case. Instead of saying, “We’ve never seen this before,” they could search the database and find documented, real-world cases of successful treatments and groundbreaking surgeries. Imagine owners being able to find vets with experience treating their animal’s condition instead of being told there’s nothing we can do. Imagine an entire network of information—all dedicated to giving farm animals the best chance at life.

We are beyond excited. But we need your help.
We’re looking for veterinarians to come on board to help us structure this database the right way—to ensure that every record is categorized properly, with both medical terminology and layman’s terms so it’s accessible to pet owners and vets alike. We already have 2 INCREDIBLE vets on our team and we’d like a couple more!

Now our team is coming together, I want to fast track this to save as many lives as we possibly can. OUR DATABASE IS ALREADY BEING CREATED!! THIS IS HUGE!!!!!!!!

*Also, is there someone out there that would like to help create a logo for The River Center for Compassionate Care? We can hop on Fiverr but I thought I’d try here first to help us save some money.

If you want to join our remote volunteer team, please send us a message and someone from our team will respond to you ASAP. 👏

Together WE ARE changing the world for farm animals!!!❤️

29/03/2025

Say, Apple. How’d you get to be so cute?

29/03/2025

28/03/2025

Ron is a favourite with many small critters, mostly because he’s such a reliable heat source.

26/03/2025

Cleo gets it. I’d kind of like to have a blanket fort day too.

22/03/2025

SPRING: A Drama in Three Parts

Or - Creative Fence Repair When the Ground is Still Frozen

21/03/2025

Cleo Update:

Our little Cleopatra Frankenstein is doing very well after her spay surgery and has a day and a half recovery under her belt. She’s still a little tender, but she is speaking to us again, so at least there’s that. Thank you for the love and good vibes. We know cats handle anesthesia very well, but we still get nervous any time anyone goes under.

20/03/2025

Daphne hopes everyone is having a wonderful first day of spring!

19/03/2025

Our sweet Cleopatra Frankenstein is getting spayed today. If you know our origin story, you know these days make us nervous, as necessary as they are. So please spare some good vibes and love for little Cleo for a quick recovery. 💖

If you have not heard how Little OinkBank was started, please check out the gorgeous 20ish minute film called Dear Tilly. Make sure youu have a tissue handy.

https://youtu.be/6oBOoHBvDJg?si=-BVHyxt0EJJAcg5o

18/03/2025

Happy Toothday from sun bunny Frank. 🦷

16/03/2025

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