Sanctuary Babes

Meet Tulip and the Pinkies!

Tulip, our charismatic ambassador for this year’s art show, is on a mission to gather a generous stockpile of sunscreen for herself and her fellow “Pinkies”ā€”our mostly pink-skinned pigs who are especially prone to skin cancer.

Pigs

The Great Banzini

The Great Banzini is part of the Pantalones family. He came to live at OMI in the summer of 2023 after surviving a very traumatic abuse and neglect case in

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Gus

When we met Gus, he was small enough to fit through a cat flap. He was a tiny little runt piglet that was part of a strange ā€œrent a runtā€

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Sid the Swamp Pig

Sid was found as a stray by the Kitsap Humane Society in Washington. Local dog and cat shelters like this often take in stray farmed animals and have no choice

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Dave

Dave is one of our Washington original pigs. He was being raised for slaughter in a neighborhood backyard, and his fate changed because a man walked by every day with

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Black Betty

Betty was part of a criminal neglect and cruelty case in Washington State that was prosecuted and won in 2018. The entire family was starving while living in a mixture

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Clover

Clover and her five siblings are Meishan pigs, a breed known to be fairly amicable in nature, which has proven true with every Meishan weā€™ve met! Clover is a mature

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Dandelion

Dandelion is one of the six Meishan siblings and is the only all pink sister in her family. Dandelion lives with her sisters Clover, Violet and Periwinkle on Solsbury Hill.

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Roy

Rosy and Roy were part of a small meat operation here in Fentress County, Tennessee. When the owners decided it was no longer lucrative for them to breed pigs, they

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Rosy

Rosy and Roy were part of a small meat operation here in Fentress County, Tennessee. When the owners decided it was no longer lucrative for them to breed pigs, they

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