HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
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From the Farm Sanctuary blog, Santuary Tails, we have a story about an adorable little piglet named Petunia:
Born on a farm in upstate New York, Petunia was the runt of her litter. For most piglets bred for production, this is a death sentence, as hardly any farmer wants or is able to take the time to bottle-feed a piglet who isn’t thriving day and night. As a result, many are left to languish or are often killed in brutal ways. But in Petunia’s case, she was donated to a veterinary teaching hospital so that students there could perform a practice surgery on the umbilical hernia with which she was born.
Fortunately, a call for help came for Petunia too.
Petunia needed surgery and then came to the Farm Sanctuary where she will be safe from the cruel industries that neglect and abuse animals like her.
While she is not out of the woods yet, and has since had a repeat trip back to the hospital for further treatments and assessment for more surgery, we are hopeful that she will fully recover soon. [...]
There is nothing quite like the unconditional and carefree love that little Petunia, and all babies like her, have to share with anyone who is receptive to receiving it. To think that this sweet girl who takes such pleasure in all the simple joys of life almost didn’t have the chance to shine so brightly is heartbreaking … but by saving each one we can, and telling their stories, we are showing the world, little by little, that there is another way [...]
Speaking of unconditional and carefree love, HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
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oh that’s so precious. that is a beautiful rescue story. Farm Sanctuary does so much good for the animals. Happy Valetines Day.