A small sanctuary for dogs with behaviour problems, Pigs, Sheep & other animals needing a safe haven. pigoneer
#53pigs
We are no kill
#Vegan
sanctuary.
Viva leaving the
#piglift
with her new feet🦶
Every pig has an apple as they leave the lift, it's a personal apology from me!
But also to end the experience on a positive note🍏
We URGENTLY need more Pigoneers so we can cover our costs. Join up here 🙏⬇️
Having a chat and sharing some love with Nelson whilst cleaning out his bedroom 🤗
He's seen and experienced things no pig should 💔
I'm trying to make up for the bad things that happened to him.
Help us keep him safe by joining our piggy care club 🐷
Handsomeness warning 🚨
Brian is so handsome he'll probably make you feel faint 🤣
He is a tall, slim pig with a huge personality!
Every pig is an individual piggy person.
Respect the pigs, don't harm them,
#GoVegan
, do
#Veganuary
& become a
#Pigoneer
We have sad news from Liverpool University hospital 💔
Laces has blood cancer and a tumour on her spleen. The cancer is aggressive and not treatable.
Tomorrow
@AnnieDaylight
&
@herbivore_club
will travel to the uni to be there with her and say goodbye.
My heart is broken 💔
Today instead of Spottie falling asleep next to her bowl she decided to take her bowl to bed & fall asleep with it there.
Pigs are so special, intelligent & emotional. Just big Labradors really. Society would be outraged if they were treated the way pigs are in farming
#GoVegan
Hot! Today was very stressful. The heat was so intense and trying to keep everyone as comfortable as possible was challenging.
Here's Maura one of our Piggy Hero Volunteers giving Eric a drink to help keep him hydrated 💦
Become a
#pigoneer
for the pigs
Rainy afternoon hay eating contest for Annie and Tansy 🐷🐷
Funds are tight and we are not covering our monthly outgoings. Costs continue to rise & donations continue to fall. Please help if you can by becoming a
#Pigoneer
🙏 Join
#Veganuary
&
#GoVegan
Happiness is a happy pig 🐷
That's it, that's all we need 🤗
Times are tough, please help support our pig herd 🙏
Please become a Pigoneer to keep them happy 💖
Go
#vegan
, respect the lives of others 🕊🌿
📽 Featuring Jo-Ra meaning Autumn Rain 🐖🌧💞
This is Barney 💖
He was born into a living hell.
He was just a little piglet surrounded by blood, guts, terror, starvation & violence.
He was born and was living in the kill floor of a slaughter operation.
Please join our Pigoneer care club for him 🐷
Spottie, Pumpkin, Rainbow, Laces and Rodney just finishing their Christmas Dinner🎄
Pigs are so intelligent and emotional. They truly are so special.
Please go
#vegan
sign up to
#Veganuary2023
and become a
#Pigoneer
for the pigs 🐖
We lifted a few more pigs today for Piggy Pedicures🦶
This is Viva,named by Juliet from
@vivacampaigns
💖
Viva is a shy, gentle girl so I was so worried her. But she was fine🤗
You can adopt Viva through Viva!
Or become a Pigoneer
🌈Haven slipped quietly away last night whilst I stroked his cheek and kissed his head 💔
Rescue work is so hard. Your heart breaks over and over 💔💔💔
Thank you
@HeleddJenkins
(his first mummy) for giving him his life and for giving me the opportunity to love him ❤️💔
Sid has been busy doing Sid things 😄
He's such a happy boy, spends hours having his own little happy party.
All pigs deserve a happy life & to be respected as living beings, as individuals
Give
#vegan
a go, sign up to
#veganuary
and become a
#pigoneer
Brave and beautiful Phoenix 💖
He spent many Christmases being terrified and fighting for his life 💔
This Christmas he felt safer than ever. He has his new shelter, his brothers, food and a field to wander.
To keep him safe please become a
#Pigoneer
🐷
I hugged this girl today for every
#pigoneer
. This is about pigs, nothing more nothing less. Just pigs. Giving them the security they need and giving the sanctuary the stability it needs to keep them safe.
Thank you 🙏
Join us, become a
#pigoneer
🐷
Yesterday morning my heart broke into a million pieces 💔
Cancer has taken Clyde.
Our very special boy left our world and for the last time I kissed his head and touched his velvet soft body.
I now have to get through the days without his huge big smile.
Run free my baby 💔🌈
Piggy Pumpkin Fun! 🎃🐖
All of these pigs are rescued from an illegal slaughter operation. They are very lucky pigs to have survived their brutal ordeal.
Please help us continue our sanctuary so we can keep them all safe by joining our Pigoneer club 🐖🐖
Happy Easter 😍
Thank you everyone for your support 🤗
April and me send our love to you all 💖🐑😘 xx
Her leg is doing really well and hopefully it won't be too long until she can have her splint off.
She needs more sponsors to help us care for her 🐑
Freedom ride 🐑🐑🐑
We gave these three ram lambs their freedom ride today.
They will live out the rest of their lives here at BTW.
They were gifted to us by a local farmer's daughter who did not want them to go to slaughter.
#KindnessMatters
#compassionoverkilling
#Vegan
🌿
Hercules, sleeping & smiling 🤗
He's the smallest of Phoenix's brothers & was also extremely traumatised.
But he's now the friendliest of the brothers. He looks for little smooths & a chat 💖
Join our piggy care club so we can continue to care for him🐷
Everyday is endless hard work, fatigue, money worries & various other sanctuary related stress.
But now & again, when the sun is shining I look around & enjoy the beauty of the Sanctuary & the special residents ❤
Thank you to everyone for your support in getting this far 🙏
Hazel's in the best place 🌧
She's decided to claim her afternoon snooze spot early to avoid disappointment. Most of the others are still snacking She's one step ahead of them!
Choose
#vegan
, do
#Veganuary
& help support the pigs by becoming a
#pigoneer
Cherry, Sedge, Ani, Ali & Ruby
Sheep are beautiful, gentle & innocent souls 🤗
It's so sad that these vulnerable beings are so abused by humans💔
Respect the lives of all living beings, go
#Vegan
.
Please sign up to
#Veganuary
🙏
Sponsor a sheep here⬇️
The piggies are all really excited about their Special Pig lift being built! They can't quite believe how lucky they're! 🐷🦶😄
They've been through so much trauma in their life. To build this pig lift to care for them is so important Thank you all🙏
#pigoneers
#vegans
#pigoneer
Annie has been her normal helpful self 😄
She decided she could fill her wallow. But untangling hoses can be so frustrating! So she thought rolling on it was the best option🤣
Stop the farming of individual souls like Annie,
#GoVegan
& become a
#pigoneer
Tansy is a happy pig 🤗
All pigs deserve to be happy. They are so tormented, abused in the pig farming industry 💔
Please be kind to pigs. Join our Pigoneer care club to
Snow Pumpkin ❄️🐷❄️
She looks so super cute with her winter coat & big pink nose🐽
We don't need to farm & harm these beautiful creatures. It really is no longer necessary. We can live healthy
#vegan
lives.
Sign up to
#Veganuary2023
& become a
#Pigoneer
On this day 4 years ago 85 pigs arrived!
They all would have been shot that day💔
Thanks to all that stood by us. It's not just about the initial rescue, it's the long haul for the entirety of their lives
Please join our Pigoneer club for their future🐷
Emergency belly rub procedure testing today...Annie passed with flying oinks!
The others were too busy chatting!
Pigs love belly rubs.
Just imagine all the pigs that will never experience a kind hand or even a kind word 💔
#GoVegan
& become a
#pigoneer
Piggy bottoms 🤗
And aren't they beautiful! Each with their swishing tails that are so important to communicate with.
This is the group that we call 'The Girls🩰'
Please embrace compassion for others. Go
#Vegan
sign up to
#Veganuary
& become a
#Pigoneer
Rodney is such a cute little guy!🐗
We don't have many 'cute' residents. Rodney is the exception! 😍
We do giant sized white pigs and dogs that bite. We try to help the animals that nobody wants, not even other rescues.
Please join our piggy care club🐷
All of these pigs were going to be killed.
Would you save them if you could or if there was even a slight chance of saving them would you try?
I thought they were worth fighting for and I've been fighting for them ever since.
But some things you can't do alone. 👇🐷👇🐷👇🐷👇
Just look at Phoenix, how his face has changed & softened 🤗
He was so terrified, so overwhelmed by fear. His eyes, his face were so traumatised.
He's still nervous of close interaction with people but he's so much happier 💗
Join our piggy care club
Laces looking and sounding beautiful 🤗
She has a very good vocal range especially when breakfast is due!
Please join our piggy care club so we can get Laces more singing lesson 😄
Yesterday at long last we welcomed the
#53Pigs
to the sanctuary
Here's some of them
feeling grass underfoot for the first time ❤
A huge thank you to
@Animallawyersuk
for helping us to secure their freedom
To help us care for them, you can donate here
Emergency belly rubs👐
Annie helped us clean troughs by playing with the hose, wearing the hose, flopping down with her head against a post so she could receive emergency belly rubs😄
Please help us continue to run our sanctuary by becoming a Pigoneer🐷
Finally they meet! 🤗
Their eyes gazed in wonder across a bowl of quality food 😄
@AndiePigoneer
named Phoenix a few years ago. She has travelled from the other side of the world to meet him 💖
Please join our Pigoneer piggy care club 🐷
Gandalf has the biggest ears and an even bigger personality!
He's so smart, he learns so quickly and is so aware of everything going on around him.
He may be a pig. But he is brighter than your dog! 🐷
Please support him by joining our piggy care club⬇️
Meet our new family member, April 😍
She was gifted to us because her back leg was dragging and knuckling 😥
Luckily it can be fixed! With a few weeks in a splint and daily physio.
Sponsor little April this
#easter
for just £4 per month!
#goVegan
🌿🐑
Annie enjoying breakfast 😋
Her best buddy Tansy is next door eating hers. As soon as they finish they dash into each others rooms just in case food is left! It's highly unlikely of course 🤣
Support pigs, don't harm them! Go
#Vegan
& become a
#pigoneer
Family snuggle time 🤗
Pigs are very sociable & have complex relationships with each other. They're also emotional & highly aware of what is going on in their surroundings & in their herd.
Please be kind to pigs! Go
#vegan
and join our Pigoneer care club
Odysseus has been so brave today🤗 He really wanted to engage with us. He's recovering from extreme trauma caused by terrible brutality at an illegal slaughterhouse💔
We urgently need more
#Pigoneers
to help keep up with costs. Please join up if you can🙏
All snuggled up 🤗
Rainbow, Pumpkin & Spottie.
It's been torrential rain here for over a week. But every morning these three still go out exploring, then snuggle up together after lunch for the evening.
Please help keep them safe by becoming a
#Pigoneer
Abi's ear 😬
She was so brave. She chose to do this. Where as the farmed animals have no choice.
Please help her reach her 5k target so we can create another piggy area
Thank you Abi AnimalAutonomy for doing this and to everyone who has donated so far.
Happy pigs 🤗
Sometimes it feels impossible to continue what we are doing. It wasn't a good week. Short staffed,short funded, overworked.
But the pigs deserve their life and we have to find a way to make sure they have a future.
Please become a Pigoneer
#banfireworks
Poor Oak, he's absolutely petrified. We have nine dogs here so Oak and at least half of the other dogs are quivering wrecks.
I also have staff member Rob living here, he is ex army suffering with
#PTSD
, tonight is incredibly traumatic for him too.
#fireworks
🙌 It's
#Veganuary2022
🎉
For each week of
#Veganuary
we will have a different mascot.
Squidgy is covering the first week as the
#Veganuary
Mascot!
He is super handsome almost too handsome for this hat 😄
You can sponsor Squidgy 👇 and
#GoVegan
🙏🌿
Duvet Day for Odysseus 🤗
He's one of Phoenix's brothers, he's still recovering from brutality
He still fears humans
He witnessed them slaying terrified souls. He stood in blood & entrails, surrounded by death
#GoVegan
& become a
#pigoneer
for the pigs
We've got an Amazon Wish List! Please take a look & if you can help in anyway it would be much appreciated!
Every bit of help, helps us care for the residents🐱🐕🐑🐴
➡️➡️AMAZON WISH LIST ➡️➡️ ⬅️⬅️
#BTWsanctuary
#Nokill
#Vegan
#nonprofit
Piggy Cam 📷🐷📷
A calm & quiet late afternoon in pigsville. Everyone's getting a hay snack in before deciding where and with whom they'll be sleeping with tonight!
Respect these beautiful, intelligent beings sign up to
#Veganuary
and become a
#Pigoneer
Haven update 🐑
He ate & drank lots. Gave us loads of lovely Haven bahhhs🤗
Still waiting for blood results.
He's very weak. But he's comfortable, warm & cosy.
We already owe £1500 to our vet plus Havens bill. Any help towards it would be appreciated🙏
Relax, sit back, take a deep breath because...
It's Pumpkin's massage day 👐🐷
All pigs deserve love & respect. Just because they're a different species to us doesn't mean we should abuse & kill them.
Please be kind to pigs, go
#Vegan
& become a Pigoneer
This great big pig (the one on the right! 😂) is Gandalf 😍
He is huge! A few metres long and over a metre in height.
He's one of the
#53pigs
entire boars.
He was rescued from an illegal slaughterhouse in Wales.
Where he was starved and treated brutally.
To survive.....👇
Today we welcomed 2 little lambs to the sanctuary and we were wondering if you could help us with some name suggestions?
Both are girls, the first has some suspected neurological issues the second was sent along with her as a companion.
Name ideas in the comments please!! 🐑🐑
Sleepy piggies on a rainy afternoon 🤗
They had the morning out grazing before the rain came. They really don't like rain so they always come in and snuggle up 💗
We still aren't covering our monthly running costs please become a
#Pigoneer
if you can
🐷
Kale Party 🥳
We had a break today from the torrential rain, with refreshing blue sky & sun🌞
If you or your business can help us with funding our sanctuary in anyway please get in contact. Funds are very low 😔
You can also join our piggy care club 🐷
Oreo is forever blowing bubbles 😀
Because pigs are very intelligent they're also super inquisitive fun seekers. All pigs want to have fun!
But life in intensive pig units is not fun or nice in any way. Stop the suffering
#GoVegan
& become a
#pigoneer
⤵️
Belly rub emergency 🤗
Annie loves people for all the right reasons....belly rubs, food, cosy bed. She has no idea about the 'other side' of people.
The side where they abuse & violently kill pigs like Annie 💔
#GoVegan
& become a
#pigoneer
for the pigs
Gandalf the magnificent✨️
He's one of our huge boars seized from the illegal slaughterhouse. He's 7ft long & 3.5ft high.We guess he's around 10 years old.
He's a huge character & super smart!
Please help us keep up with costs by becoming a
#Pigoneer
🐷
It was a heavy night on the haylage 😄
Seeing happy pigs is pure joy 🤗
It's so much better to celebrate life than to dance on the grave of others.
Please go
#Vegan
and join our piggy care club so we can keep our sanctuary going and the pigs safe 🐷
Merry Christmas & happy holidays to all the
#pigoneers
, sponsors, donors & supporters.
I'm so grateful to all of you for your help. It's not about me but about these beautiful animals, without your support it would just not be possible to keep them safe.
Thank you🙏
🐷🐑🐶🐎🐷
Annie just wandered in from her field for a drink 🐷
But Annie's life was supposed to be very different. She was born to be confined in a crate only just slightly bigger than her. This is where she would raise her babies 💔
Please
#GoVegan
& Sponsor Annie
Sweet little Haven, he's so beautiful 🤗
He's very weak today. But he's still eating, drinking and bahhhing 💖
Still waiting for test results.
We already owe our vets £1500 so any help towards this and Havens bill would be very appreciated.
Big and beautiful boars 💖
These boys are huge! But they're incredibly gentle and extremely intelligent 🤗
Please be kind to pigs!
We still are not covering our running costs. Please join our Pigoneer care club to help support these beautiful boys 🐗
Viva has found herself a cosy spot!
As the rain lashed down over West Wales she was snuggled up in the hay 🤗
She's a quiet, shy girl, really sweet and gentle 💖
She was named by Juliet from
@vivacampaigns
and you can even adopt her through Viva! 🐷
A girl needs her bucket! 🐷
Spottie loves hers!
Animals don't ask for much. They just want to live free from fear and pain, no different to us.
Spottie once lived in hell, surrounded by death and suffering.
Become a
#pigoneer
to give her a safe future-
It's little Rodney's favourite time of day. It's make the bed time🤗
He's such a sweet little house husband to Laces💞
He's so excited with his fresh straw & hay everyday 🐗
Please be kind to pigs, go
#Vegan
do
#Veganuary
& become a
#pigoneer
for the pigs
Happiness is a happy pig 🤗
Squidgy is a pig, but apart from being more intelligent, he is no different from your dog 🐷🐶
Respect pigs, go
#Vegan
🌿
Please join our piggy care club by becoming a Pigoneer
Funds are low and costs high at the moment 😔
🐷Piggy hero!🦸♀️
Meet super volunteer, piggy hero Maura.
Maura works at least a couple of hours everyday. She does it because she truly loves the pigs ❤
What a hero 🙌
We run on a very small team. Please let us know if you can volunteer a few regular hours a week.
#volunteer
Boing! Boing! Boing! 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Cherry, Ruby, Ani & Ali have got that spring feeling 🌻
They're around 8 or 9 years old now but today they were like little lambs playing in the field 🤗
They all need sponsors, you can sponsor them from just £4 per month!
Settling down for piggy bedtime, just a few more adjustments to the bedding 😄
Just because they're pigs, doesn't mean their lives should be disposable. Life is precious. We should never take the life of another.
Have mercy
#GoVegan
& become a
#pigoneer
Rainbow, Pumpkin, Rodney & Laces exploring their new area 💖
Spottie looked around and then went back to her old bed 😄
Please join our
#pigoneer
feed club so we can provide these beautiful beings with a secure future
#slaughterhousesurvivor
#vegan
🌿
Eric enjoying his sticky peanut butter and jam treat😋
It contains his daily medication for arthritis & medication to protect his stomach from ulcers.
Please join our
#Pigoneer
club so we can keep our sanctuary running & care for special pigs like Eric🤗
It's
#WorldPigWeek
, if you are not
#vegan
you're supporting the relentless abuse of the female body. These are all female pigs, women. Trapped in these gestation crates because they've been made pregnant, again.
Support rescued pigs by becoming a Pigoneer
Happy Pigs 🤗
It's been a long tough few days with frozen water supplies! ❄️
Making sure a hundred Pigs & all the other residents are all cared for in extreme weather conditions is tough work.
Please become a
#Pigoneer
today to help support their lives.
Sometimes you fall asleep with your face in your plate 😄
Fern can have happy dreams. She has nothing to fear. She is safe. She'll never have to face the slaughterman....no one should ever have to face such horror 💔
Please
#GoVegan
& become a
#pigoneer
Lunch time 🐷
When they first arrived feed time was very difficult. We had high levels of aggression & injuries at feed time. So I worked out a system to spread the feed over a large distance & get it all out quickly. Now they are calmer and we no longer get feed time injuries♥️
Just hanging out with The Squidgy boy! 😍
6 months ago I couldn't touch him. He was so scared, he'd scream when I got near. He associated humans with one thing....pain.
He's now learning to trust again.
Join us and become a
#pigoneer
support 91 victims.
🥳 Happy New Year 🎉
Eric has moved into the special piggy barn! 🐷
A huge, huge thank you to everyone that has helped me get through this year!
We've achieved so much, I'm so grateful to each of you for making it possible. For caring about the pigs.
Thank you all 💖🙏😘 x
Hazel found the perfect scratching device 🐷
We hire this machine for big muck outs. But if anyone wants to buy one for Hazel as a chin scratcher she would be very happy 😄
We really need more funding to cover our running costs.
Join our pig care club 🐷
Snack time with the little boys 🤗
Let's hope one day all pigs will be seen as precious individuals 🐷
Please go
#Vegan
and join our Pigoneer piggy care club to support these special beings and to help give them the financial security they need 💖
Phoenix, Attis & Hercules are getting use to their amazing mudcontrol slab area 💖
Phoenix & Hercules are doing really well with their confidence. Attis in the middle is still very nervous.
Thank you everyone who bought slabs🙏
Become a
#pigoneer
🐖🐖🐖
🐷 Our new born piglets are doing well
Mum is taking good care of them even though she is only 10 months old herself & very small for her age due to conditions she was born into.
They'll never have to face the horror of slaughter, no one should have too.
Piggy duvet day for the piglets 💟
Pigs are just like people. They enjoy good food, good company and a cosy bed.
In factory farms they lie on cold hard floors. It's no way to treat another living being. Please
#GoVegan
for the pigs & become a
#pigoneer
Frank, keeping an eye on the wheelbarrow so he can tip it when it's full 😄
He loves having fun, he's bright & inquisitive like all pigs.
But most pigs will never have fun, they'll be born into a life of suffering 💔
Please
#GoVegan
& become a
#pigoneer
Tail backs on the P53 🐖🐖🐖
Field fun time. Some will stay out till bedtime, some pop up & down throughout the day. They all come in at bedtime for a cosy night in the Piggy Barn🤗
Respect the lives of others, go
#Vegan
& become a
#pigoneer
for the pigs
Chomp,Chomp,Chomp! 🐷🐷
Jess & Bo enjoying a hay snack 😋
They had a bad start in life. Born into death & horror inside an illegal slaughter operation. As little piglets they had to eat entrails of others to survive 💔
Become a
#pigoneer
for the pigs 🙏
Just pigs being pigs! Hanging out, eating grass, digging up roots & doing piggy things.
We want to make sure we can keep all 91 pigs safe. We need to know we can buy their feed, that's around 3 tons of feed every week! Become a
#pigoneer
to keep them safe
Annie & Tansy awaiting lunch time table service 🍽
We know times are tough for everyone at the moment. So it's not easy raising funds. But with 100 pigs & other animals I can't just stop looking after them 😔
Please join our piggy care club if you can 🐷
Pigs, beautiful pigs 💗
They're all survivors of abuse & starvation & classified as 'unfit for human consumption'
Thankfully they can never go in to the food chain & are not allowed to leave the Sanctuary🙌
Please help support them by becoming a
#Pigoneer
Oink! Oink! 🐷
Feeding time with some of the
#53Pigs
!
These lucky pigs will never know how close they came to facing violent slaughter.
A week ago we were still fighting for their lives. Any we'd not managed to ear tattoo would be slaughtered next day.
Ooooh it's Eric 😍
He's one of the piglets born in the Defra Isolation unit. He was born without hope. His parents were condemned and he was due to be culled alongside them 💔
Never give up hope 🙏
Please Go
#Vegan
and join our Pigoneer care club 🐷
This is Ryan the Wren and it's his second year overwintering in our horses hay shed 🐦
His nest is only 6 foot up, so at first he would fly out when I went in. But now we've become friends, he just looks out at me every night and we have a chat 🤗
#nature
#Winterwatch
#wildlife
It's lovely having our main piglet herd in the barn at last.
Whilst they've outgrown the piglet stage, they'll always be The Piglets to us 😄
They were born into a Defra isolation unit & were due to be culled💔
Sign up to
#veganuary
& become a
#pigoneer