On the eve of our TENTH anniversary, we welcomed pig rescues number eleven and twelve for 2025. Cupcake, along with her companion, Dudley, were former lab test pigs who recently found themselves in need of a soft landing because they’d been living on a piece of property that could no longer house them, and the situation was becoming fairly dangerous. We were grateful to be a rare resource that exists specifically for pigs like them.
Cupcake was deserving of all the good things that life could possibly offer her–no different than you and me. Sadly, she had been bred for what her body could produce AND she underwent lab testing. By the time she came into our care, her body was breaking down.
Pigs like Cupcake are the reason we exist. They are the motivation for our continual efforts to advocate and educate. They are the heart of our mission to provide lifelong sanctuary care to vulnerable animals.
Cupcake, who will be greatly missed by Dudley, was a resident of the Garden House Neighborhood. She had a very strange and rare infection in the bones of her front leg, and a pig of this size was not a good candidate for amputation. Her time as a Sanctuary Babe was sadly very short-lived, but we’re very grateful that she made it here at all.
Note: At this time, we are awaiting further test results to try and determine if the infection was somehow related to her former life as a lab test pig. While we likely won’t have a definitive answer to that question, when pigs come to sanctuary after lab testing, we have very little information on what was done to them in the lab facility.