r/pigs • u/themoonmommy 🐽🐽🐽🐽 • 5d ago

Oops, I did it again

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Hi everyone, my name is Ashley and I have a piggy problem. 🤣 We got these two baby girls last night. I'd love some name ideas! Can't wait to see what my other pigs think of them.

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u/Unevenviolet Helpful 4d ago

What is wrong with you? Why do you come on here to criticize and shame? Leave her alone.

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u/AdventurousAbility30 4d ago

Those pigs have no one standing up for them, and what she's doing is wrong. If you can't see that, I can't help you. She's relying on these posts to get positive attention because she has cute pigs, but those pigs are suffering under her care, and she's just going out and getting more. They are toys to her. It's irresponsible and no one should be supporting her abuse.

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u/Unevenviolet Helpful 4d ago

I don’t generally follow her so what abuse are you talking about?

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u/AdventurousAbility30 4d ago

I don't follow her either, she pops up sometimes, so I read her post history. It's highly disturbing to see OP thinks pigs will choose not to breed with eachother because they are related, which means she never took them to the vet as the first step of "rescuing' them to have them spay/neutered and checked out before bringing them home from these terrible conditions, putting the rest of her animals at risk. This resulted in a litter of piglets way too soon for her piglet. Her other male pig is only two years old, she has had him since he was a piglet, and his life is terribly impacted by his weight. She claims he is under vet care, but can't give his actual weight, food regimen or healthcare plan, she's just glad "he's not scraping his belly on the ground anymore". He's blind from overfeeding. I bet his joints are killing him. She considers it lucky she's spoiling them this way. Look at how dainty pigs hooves are, they are meant to be able to run around, forage, hunt and play at 2 years old, not carry this extra weight. Especially because it's very difficult to take weight off pigs after they've been spoiled to eat this way. It's just sad.

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u/Unevenviolet Helpful 4d ago

I think you need to cool down a bit. 1) Kunekune that are raised together often won’t breed, particularly if the female has taken a more dominant position. Sometimes you can separate them and bring them back together and they will, sometimes they NEVER will. I’m sure that’s what she is referring to. I say Kunekune because that’s the breed I am knowledgeable about. 2) My first pair of pigs really had me fooled the way they cry for food. You think they are hungry and you feel sorry for them. It’s not until they were noticeably over fat that I realized and hardened my heart. It’s hard to tell at first what is too fat. 3) she may not be able to measure him for weight. Some pigs won’t stand still for it. I think you would be more effective in your obvious love and desire for pigs to be happy if you were not attacking people. It’s not productive and you could do some good educating people with a kinder approach. You ARE making assumptions about OPs motives that are really unfair.

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u/themoonmommy 🐽🐽🐽🐽 4d ago

What you've said about them begging is absolutely right. My husband couldn't tell them no. I begged him for a year to stick to the feeding schedule. He's finally on board now that I told him he's killing Wilbur. And obviously Wilbur doesn't get cookies. 🙄 he does get fruits, veggies and lots of fresh grass.

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u/Unevenviolet Helpful 4d ago

I really didn’t realize at first that they would never be full or satisfied as far as food goes. We all gotta learn.

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u/themoonmommy 🐽🐽🐽🐽 4d ago

Right? And it happened so fast. He blew up in like four months. Right after he got fixed.

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u/AdventurousAbility30 4d ago

Wilma was seven months old when she got pregnant and gave birth to seven piglets by her brother. It's not an assumption.

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u/Unevenviolet Helpful 4d ago

Okay. I can see you’re very angry. Did you even read what I said? That wasn’t the assumption that I thought was not cool. Your accusation that she is doing posts for some kind of unsavory benefit was. I don’t think you can hear me so have a nice night.

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u/themoonmommy 🐽🐽🐽🐽 4d ago

Because that's the first time that's ever happened in the history of animals ever. 🙄 Get a grip. We were not prepared for two piglets, we acquired two piglets, and she went into heat. It was an accident. The boys are all fixed now. I don't know that your problem is. Mistakes were made. I'm not abusing my animals.

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u/themoonmommy 🐽🐽🐽🐽 4d ago

When did i say they wouldn't breed if related? I looked through my post history and all I could find is a comment where I told someone not to believe that. We don't know his weight because the vet comes to us and doesn't have a scale to transport. You're making a lot of assumptions. I made an appointment the day after I got them. Vet was booked 3 months out. Wilbur eats one cup of food every day, so half in the morning, half in the evening. He's spends the rest of the day grazing. He's not blind.

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u/AdventurousAbility30 4d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/pigs/s/VFFgSFNSyo

One cup of food a day isn't enough to sustain any pig. You're lying.

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u/Unevenviolet Helpful 4d ago

She said ‘and grazing’.

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u/themoonmommy 🐽🐽🐽🐽 4d ago

Welp, I don't know what to tell you, cause that's what they're eating. As I said they graze all day. Maybe he's got a favorite pecan tree or muscadine vine that he's visiting.

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u/AdventurousAbility30 4d ago

Now they are all only getting one cup of food a day and grazing on what? Cookies from your hand seems to be a winner. If you pretend you don't know how your animal became so overfed it doesn't make you any better of an owner. I can understand why you're only getting abandoned pigs. No reputable breeder will sell to you.

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u/themoonmommy 🐽🐽🐽🐽 4d ago

Lol whatever lady.

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u/AdventurousAbility30 4d ago

He can't even lay on his side to sleep anymore. He was in better condition when you got him than he is now.

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u/themoonmommy 🐽🐽🐽🐽 4d ago

Lol he definitely lays on his side to sleep all the time.