16/03/2026
Make it Make sense
For a month and half we have been harassed. ALL cases against us have been completely dropped. Animal Control didn’t take it lightly. They sent 3 separate officers, 3 different times and the chief even came out. We told them about the improvements we were making that Chris Coleman knew about that will help with pool clean up and auto-water bowls. This will help us keep up the maintenance easier. While we never claimed to be perfect, we have over 35 pigs, not discussing other animals, and yet we are being persecuted over two pigs. The cases were dropped before Eastern snout post. They only posted because they didn’t get what they wanted. Then when that died down here comes Kimberly Jo.
What is the benefit? There are only two reasons people run rescues, helping animals or getting donations. Some don’t really care about the animals and just rake in the donations. Others start with a good heart but sometimes don’t really know how to make it work logistically. Abusers tend to only care about money. Well, we don’t ask for donations hardly ever. We participated in the hay drive, because Kim Sullivan voiced that we should and last year we had a neuter/spay auction for three pigs. We set up our rescue to be able to be sustained by our own income (no we both don’t make 6 figures; I make $120 and work 100 hours a pay period). That is how we have stayed strong for 7 years.
Why do we put up with all this? We have asked ourselves that several times. We pay out a significant amount of money every year to keep this rescue. $16,000 in just basic costs: food, vet check, trims. That doesn’t include maintenance and renovation, which this year we have already spent $2,700 in three months on fencing and decking. That amount also doesn’t include the handyman, Chris brought up, who costs us just under $25k a year. Yes, he occasionally does other work for us, but primarily he is making improvements and upkeep at the rescue. I know you are thinking it must be nice to be able to afford that. Yes, I work a very high demand stressful job so that we can get the support. We have never received volunteer support. We are on the parole officer list and brought on Julie as VP to specifically help us with finding volunteers. While Julie raised several concerns about frequency of water changes, she didn’t come up herself to help even though she was the VP. Instead, Colton and I both work hard all week to just turn around and use all our free time to run this rescue.
Why not just walk away and let them take all the pigs? We would have a way easier life and be in a great financial situation. Henrietta loves it when I come out and follows me wherever I go. She gives me so many hot pants but tends to stay away from strangers. Alfie is a big boy and just got his yard updated. He now has 100’ by 40’ space he calls his own with his other friend. Corky and Petunia only ever knew their mom and only adjusted to Colton. They would be terrified by change. I could keep going on. We love them enough to give a damn about what happens to them. The people that rehome have, majority of the time, NEVER been to the rescue themselves. A lot can be hidden from camera, even live chat, and can be staged for videos, photos, or visits. A few times when I was included in a pig coordinated move, I would push back to make sure due diligence had been done. As a rescue, we hear a lot more than others do because we know the struggles of being a rescue. I have never, and will never, call out a rescue for doing things different than I would, even if I don’t agree. However, I would if I knew for a FACT things were happening. Not just so and so said so. With that said, there are very few I would trust with my pigs. Haven’t y’all noticed the up and down rate of pig rescues. There is a reason for that. I will not take a chance of one of our pigs ending up in a bad situation. You know why our rescue wasn’t perfect? We didn’t work to get everything perfect before our FRIENDS came for a visit. We let them see the daily struggle. For instance we moved our whole house into a shipping crate, while we built. That allowed us to start the rescue while living in a RV several years earlier. We recently were finally able to clean out the shipping crate and reclaim our stuff. To our horror, there was a leak and our stuff was molded. My asthma is triggered by mold. We moved what we could salvage under our carport till we could hand wash the items. We did this a weekend before our FRIENDS arrived. We told them this but who cares the video makes good drama.
But Tasha, we just want medical records and video proof of Charlie. I post a picture and get accused of altering it because people are too stupid to realize that it was not military time but Universal Time. Android phones are including that in photos. Why should I provide other items to be declared a liar. Additionally, what have we ever asked for from a majority of you. If you have donated/bought from our auctions, then you have some right to ask questions. Majority of you have never lifted a finger to help, have just demanded we take on more pigs, have taken our support and friendship without reciprocating. For the ones who sent us pigs, like Nita, you have not for YEARS asked about how they were doing, requested pictures, or followed up. The number of lies is astronomical. When Julie first brought this to our attention that this could be big (double agent), I told her I wasn’t worried. She went on about how we had to fight back to defend our name and all the good we did. Ain’t it hilarious now. I wish I had that recorded. I knew locals would see that we are doing good. Instead of jumping at a few people’s comments that know NOTHING about the daily struggles and choices of running a rescue. To everyone that called animal control, thank you. We now have a great working relationship with our animal control due to you all making them come out so often. I am still not worried. We have done nothing wrong. Our vet is in good standing. We rarely ask for support, so the lack of support from Facebook Haters won’t affect us. We are a Phoenix.
This will be our last post about this. If you really care about Charlie or Pua or any pig at Hogwarts, continue following our page. We will work to post more frequently. To the rest of you, you didn’t help us in the past or present, so why would I expect anything different in the future.
PS For those who read the entire post, how many comments were made from people who obviously didn’t
