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About
Who Is VegasPigPets and What We Do
At VegasPigPets, we are dedicated to helping potbelly pigs to have the best life possible. We want to help them find good homes and families that will take care of them. If you are interested in adopting a potbelly pig, need educational and behavioral support, or need a hoof or tusk trim or would just like to contact us, please complete our contact form in it’s entirety and someone will respond as soon as possible. If you want to help our cause, donate to us today!Why VegasPigPets Started
Back in 2004, I was looking for a potbelly pig to adopt for a pet. I did not find any networking available here in Las Vegas. I found piglets in pet stores and even, of all places, the swap meet, but no one could tell me about them! I have always adopted all my other animals, dogs, birds, and even tortoises! I tried going out of state to adopt but didn’t find any pig to call my own. After over a year of homework and looking for that special pig, I felt I had no other choices. In 2006, I brought a piglet home from a reputable breeder out of state. I named her Pork Chop. She was the smartest, most special creature I had ever encountered. Because I lacked knowledge about how to raise a pig, I went looking for someone who could help me. I was able to hook up with Pigs4Ever and took Pork Chop all the way to Reno to meet a “pig” trainer. I found out that pigs are like perpetual 3-year-old children and was very surprised that my prior training skills were no help with her! Two years later, I felt I had finally mastered the art of raising a pig! She was a little overweight, a little too smart for her own good, but the most special, different animal I could have added to my family. Because of all my hardships along the way, VegasPigPets got started in April of 2008, not by choice, but by need. Joining a wonderful group called SCAMPP out of Southern California, and hearing of the chatter from other pig rescue groups and sanctuaries, I knew there must be a problem in Las Vegas. But where are the pigs that needed saving? Sadly, it didn’t take very long to find them. Pig pets were being given up to shelters, left in backyards to fend for themselves, and even walking down busy streets. It was a sad story, like so many other animals, the worsening economy, the foreclosure crisis, whatever the reason; people were leaving their pets behind. It was a little harder for the abandoned pigs as they don’t just “fit in” at the shelters! By this time, I had made a good friend out of Marlies of Pig Harmony and she convinced me I could help these pigs needing homes. She helped VegasPigPets get started, by networking and finding resources that could help, even hundreds of miles away. Somehow, people got my email, my phone number, and finally, our website was born! It still saddens me to see how bad the problem is and how much worse it is still becoming, but we can all do something, even if it is one pig pet at a time! Our 501(c)(3) was approved in December 2008, so full blast forward, we went to get the word out that there was help in Las Vegas! People started to volunteer to help, foster homes were found, and people stepped up to provide permanent homes for pigs in need! Our website has provided a valuable resource for pig pet owners in Las Vegas. How one little piglet named Pork Chop started a whole organization of people still amazes me, but every day, I look at my not-so-little girl and thank her for opening up a new world of wonderful people and resources! If we all just help one animal that cannot help themselves or stop unwanted pregnancies by spaying and neutering our pets, we all may one day say that we helped eliminate the unnecessary euthanization of all pets!Don’t Buy Teacup Pigs!!
The largest amount of inquiries ever since VegasPigPets was started has been “Do you have any Teacup Pigs for Adoption?” After all these years of running our collaborative website, TeaCupPig.info, with other rescues and sanctuaries across the nation, we can’t seem to make people understand that there’s no such thing as a teacup pig! Starving a pig to stunt its growth is inhumane! If we have to pick one goal for our rescue, it would be that people should stop believing and buying these lies.
© 2023-2024 Designed by Wimberly’s Web Works
About
Who Is VegasPigPets and What
We Do
At VegasPigPets, we are dedicated to helping potbelly pigs to have the best life possible. We want to help them find good homes and families that will take care of them. If you are interested in adopting a potbelly pig, need educational and behavioral support, or need a hoof or tusk trim or would just like to contact us, please complete our contact form in it’s entirety and someone will respond as soon as possible. If you want to help our cause, donate to us today!Why
VegasPigPets
Started
Back in 2004, I was looking for a potbelly pig to adopt for a pet. I did not find any networking available here in Las Vegas. I found piglets in pet stores and even, of all places, the swap meet, but no one could tell me about them! I have always adopted all my other animals, dogs, birds, and even tortoises! I tried going out of state to adopt but didn’t find any pig to call my own. After over a year of homework and looking for that special pig, I felt I had no other choices. In 2006, I brought a piglet home from a reputable breeder out of state. I named her Pork Chop. She was the smartest, most special creature I had ever encountered. Because I lacked knowledge about how to raise a pig, I went looking for someone who could help me. I was able to hook up with Pigs4Ever and took Pork Chop all the way to Reno to meet a “pig” trainer. I found out that pigs are like perpetual 3-year-old children and was very surprised that my prior training skills were no help with her! Two years later, I felt I had finally mastered the art of raising a pig! She was a little overweight, a little too smart for her own good, but the most special, different animal I could have added to my family. Because of all my hardships along the way, VegasPigPets got started in April of 2008, not by choice, but by need. Joining a wonderful group called SCAMPP out of Southern California, and hearing of the chatter from other pig rescue groups and sanctuaries, I knew there must be a problem in Las Vegas. But where are the pigs that needed saving? Sadly, it didn’t take very long to find them. Pig pets were being given up to shelters, left in backyards to fend for themselves, and even walking down busy streets. It was a sad story, like so many other animals, the worsening economy, the foreclosure crisis, whatever the reason; people were leaving their pets behind. It was a little harder for the abandoned pigs as they don’t just “fit in” at the shelters! By this time, I had made a good friend out of Marlies of Pig Harmony and she convinced me I could help these pigs needing homes. She helped VegasPigPets get started, by networking and finding resources that could help, even hundreds of miles away. Somehow, people got my email, my phone number, and finally, our website was born! It still saddens me to see how bad the problem is and how much worse it is still becoming, but we can all do something, even if it is one pig pet at a time! Our 501(c)(3) was approved in December 2008, so full blast forward, we went to get the word out that there was help in Las Vegas! People started to volunteer to help, foster homes were found, and people stepped up to provide permanent homes for pigs in need! Our website has provided a valuable resource for pig pet owners in Las Vegas. How one little piglet named Pork Chop started a whole organization of people still amazes me, but every day, I look at my not-so-little girl and thank her for opening up a new world of wonderful people and resources! If we all just help one animal that cannot help themselves or stop unwanted pregnancies by spaying and neutering our pets, we all may one day say that we helped eliminate the unnecessary euthanization of all pets!Don’t Buy Teacup Pigs!!
The largest amount of inquiries ever since VegasPigPets was started has been “Do you have any Teacup Pigs for Adoption?” After all these years of running our collaborative website, TeaCupPig.info, with other rescues and sanctuaries across the nation, we can’t seem to make people understand that there’s no such thing as a teacup pig! Starving a pig to stunt its growth is inhumane! If we have to pick one goal for our rescue, it would be that people should stop believing and buying these lies.
