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It's coming up to Cameo's 1st "gotcha day" :))

She was the first piggy that I got via a TGPF rescue, and there's been loads of "big" rescues over the last few months, so I thought I'd start a post so that we can share our rescue piggies, in all their glory. I think it'd also be interesting to see who has pigs from the same rescue bunch e.g. the 285 rescue, and the variety of types of pigs out there in rescues up and down the country (and others? ?/)


So here's my rescue lot...

Jeffrey, abyssinian cross? - Bristol Cats and Dogs Home (RSPCA) April 2011
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Cameo, coronet (with a short hair cut!) - All About The Animals, Wales, 10th July 2011
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Maggot ("Maggie" ), crested something or other! - Glynneath GPR, Wales, 24th June 2012
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So what little gems have you guys found in rescues? :))
 
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Here are mine

flash, rspca brent knoll, adopted 27/4/11 sadly died easter 2012 short haired black and tan
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silver rspca walsall (part of the 285 rescue) adopted 22/5/12 abbey or abbey cross, cant spell the colours
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tyrion (aka callum) glynneath GPR wales 22/6/12 (part of the 285 rescue) ginger coronet
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lupin (aka ethan) glynneath GPR wales 22/6/12 (part of the 285 rescue) lilac coronet
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Just a selection of mine, these are from Hillsbrooke Rescue:

Phoebe skinny pig

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Katie Skinny pig

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Little Rose

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Barney

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All are rescues in one way or the other though so here is the line-up pre Barney:

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That's just the living room pigs too and doesn't include the boys in the bedroom.
 
just realised that you and I amanda got our pigs around the same time in 2011 - how spooky :o

And I do blame you for the boys :p:)) (just have to return the favour muhahahaha)
 
Amysmom said:
Surely ALL Piggys count?
After all they are ALL gorgeous and ALL deserve loving homes :)
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The idea of this thread was to see how rescues link up across the country (already shown by Pepperdog and her 285 rescue boys from the Midlands and Wales), and to show the variety of pigs of all ages/sizes/colours/breeds in rescues awaiting a forever home.

Pepperdog said:
just realised that you and I amanda got our pigs around the same time in 2011 - how spooky :o

And I do blame you for the boys :p:)) (just have to return the favour muhahahaha)
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Tempting, tempting! I'm waiting for some "special" pigs that need a little extra TLC, very tempted by Flash and Gordon ^)
 
Isn't this a bit unfair to those people who have recently joined the forum and didn't know about rescue pigs?
 
I think it's to see how many people have piggies from big well known rescues (like the 285 rescue)...

It's not to leave people out who do not have piggies from a rescue centre as mentioned there is a whole section to add those too, this is just one thread.
 
Mine aren't from any of the big rescues but are from a rescue.
 
Amysmom said:
Isn't this a bit unfair to those people who have recently joined the forum and didn't know about rescue pigs?
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As I've already pointed out, there's an entire forum out there. This is just one single thread. You can always start your own "show off your non-rescue pigs" thread if it's that much of an issue. Jeez...
 
helen105281 said:
Mine aren't from any of the big rescues but are from a rescue.
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Mine aren't from any of the big rescues either, Jeffrey was a case of 2 pet shop boars that started fighting, and were signed over to the RSPCA, Cameo was an ex-breeding sow signed over to a rescue having being bred back to back several times, and Maggie was signed over to the rescue by her previous owner albeit a neglectful one.
 
All current 16 of my own have been rehomed from various TGPF rescues.
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I am also missing Fflur and Ffion (RIP 2010) and Llewelyn, Telyn and Hafina (RIP 2011).
 
Amysmom said:
Isn't this a bit unfair to those people who have recently joined the forum and didn't know about rescue pigs?
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then start a thread about showing off pigs not from rescues.

I thought this was a great idea to show not only the variety of types of pigs found in rescue - after all I never thought such deliciously gorgeous piggies would ever end up in my home, I have the three boys from one of the huge rescues and not from the same rescue place either. Which is what the point was, a showcase of just how lovely rescue pigs are, how the rescues work together to help needy pigs and how the final process (the homing) can happen at some distance or with my case just sheer luck.

At the moment there are rescues full to bursting with piggies, if new members can see the variety of pigs and the availability of rescue pigs then they will be educated to look to a rescue the next time they get an urge to find a new piggie
 
Wiebke said:
All current 16 of my own have been rehomed from various TGPF rescues.
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I am also missing Fflur and Ffion (RIP 2010) and Llewelyn, Telyn and Hafina (RIP 2011).
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Wiebke, I aspire to have a collection of piggies like yours x)
 
AbbyGuinea said:
I think it's to see how many people have piggies from big well known rescues (like the 285 rescue)...

It's not to leave people out who do not have piggies from a rescue centre as mentioned there is a whole section to add those too, this is just one thread.
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helen105281 said:
Mine aren't from any of the big rescues but are from a rescue.
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Amanda1801 said:
Mine aren't from any of the big rescues either, Jeffrey was a case of 2 pet shop boars that started fighting, and were signed over to the RSPCA, Cameo was an ex-breeding sow signed over to a rescue having being bred back to back several times, and Maggie was signed over to the rescue by her previous owner albeit a neglectful one.
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Flash wasnt from a big rescue, he was un unwanted childs pet but was in rescue for some months before I found and adpoted him. Its not just about the large rescues, its just about the rescues, a celebration of having given lucky pigs a second chance at living in piggie heaven with their own slaves
 
Fair enough but perhaps it should have been headed differently such as 'Piggys we had from rescue' instead of 'show off' your rescue Pigs.
 
Amysmom said:
Fair enough but perhaps it should have been headed differently such as 'Piggys we had from rescue' instead of 'show off' your rescue Pigs.
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But it is showing them off- showing off each beautiful part of them and their character. This thread isn't about excluding non- rescue pigs, it's just about celebrating the little beauties that we got from rescues. Why not start one for other types of pigs if you don't like this one being just rescue pigs? I'm sure you'd get the same response just pigs from a different place.
 
Here are some of my boys from Yorkshire rescues

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Thorn, a crested gp (strawberry roan?) from Milhaven in Nov 2011 - he was a boar date for another of my boars, arranged on the forum so a borum date?

Here are long haired Leonard and Barney Bubbles (Black and tan) from BARC via Salt N Peppers Mum who fosters for BARC - we met on the forum!x>>

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Another of Leonard for good measure:) (pre hair cut BTW)

And here is an old picture of Tea Cake who came from Camp Nibble in Leeds last autumn - I need to get a new pic of him as he is now a big boar. Also crested short haired and a boar date for another boy.

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So I would agree - loads of different types of piggies available in rescues around the country. And borum dating has been great for my boys.
 
Amysmom said:
Fair enough but perhaps it should have been headed differently such as 'Piggys we had from rescue' instead of 'show off' your rescue Pigs.
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Why should we not be proud of our rescue piggies? We have plenty of threads about showing off all other kinds of piggies; and there are always members that cannot participate. It does not demean anybody else.
 
Aww Callum & Ethan <3 so in love with these boys, i remember health checking them at their original owners house and thinking "Oh man these pigs are so beautiful i wish i could have them" So lovely seeing them in their new home looking so super handsome.

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Blake my handsome, shy sheltie boy was one of the 285 piggies, he was a foster of mine who was supposed to go to wood green ... but he never left my house :(|)

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Pretty little Acorn was also part of the 285 rescue, she was adopted from Wood Greens heydon branch at the end of may.

You can barely see the folling but they were marley (choc/cream/white sheltie) and tyson ginger crested who my parents adopted for us from a lady who fostered for peterborough rspca. Many moons ago, before digital cams.

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Oh I did mean to add to my post that it also shows how their are also beautiful piggies in rescues! I was rushing so my manager didn't catch me...:))

Hopefully Troy will be successful in boat dating! I can then show off a rescue pig!
 
All three piggies are from GBH rescue :(|).

Betsy Boo- No idea how she got there but she was in a hutch full of teddies drool.
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And thinking she's smart helping me with my math revision.
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Forrest- Born at the rescue with his two brothers- started bickering a bit so was neutered. This picture makes him look like a baby- but he's a year old now and a nice, hefty boy.
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Lola- Dunped in a forest with 30 other pigs- was the only baby but was thought to have been abandoned because of a badly broken front leg :(. A very pretty ginger roan abbysinian so possibly originally bred to be a show pig. Taken her while to come around but she is lovely now and has the cutest walk in the world :a19:. Not a great picture but her in the comfy house:
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600th post- glad it was this one.
 
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Wiebke said:
All current 16 of my own have been rehomed from various TGPF rescues.
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I am also missing Fflur and Ffion (RIP 2010) and Llewelyn, Telyn and Hafina (RIP 2011).
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How on earth do you get your piggies to line up so neatly like that? :))
 
Amanda1801 said:
It's coming up to Cameo's 1st "gotcha day" :))

She was the first piggy that I got via a TGPF rescue, and there's been loads of "big" rescues over the last few months, so I thought I'd start a post so that we can share our rescue piggies, in all their glory. I think it'd also be interesting to see who has pigs from the same rescue bunch e.g. the 285 rescue
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Hold up there was a resuce of 285 piggies! Your pigs are beautiful btw. Mine i resuced myself and i shall hopefully get more pictures tonight when i change them again before our houseguest arrive
 
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