Where a pig can be a pig
(logo art by Eve Ujhelyi)
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| Spotlight on....Cannonball
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 | One of Red the rooster's former flockmates, Cannonball, is now living at OTP with Red. Named for his rotund physique as a young chick, Cannonball was asked to move from his West Linn home. The neighbors were not morning people apparently and did not appreciate his 5 am crowing. Welcome to the flock, Cannonball, and thanks to Bonnie and Eric for transporting Cannonball to OTP.
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| Ride to the Light: 3 Sanctuary Century Fundraising Bike Ride
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| We're thrilled to announce that Ride to the Light is happening again this year. Come join the fun! |
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| Our second annual one-hundred mile fundraising bike ride is right around the corner. Yep, we had so much fun last year that we're doing again this year and we need you to make it a success. |
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| The Ride to the Light is a bike ride to benefit Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary, Out To Pasture Sanctuary and IDA's own Hope Animal Sanctuary. |
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| This one-hundred mile (century) bike ride is Saturday, September 25, 2010. We'll be leaving from the Vegan Mini-mall and riding to Out To Pasture in Estacada, then on to Lighthouse in Scio. Project Hope is in Mississippi, so we won't be making a stop there, but they'll be with us in spirit. |
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| Can't ride a hundred miles? No problem. New for this year's ride we're adding a shorter 40-mile route that ends at Out to Pasture in Estacada. Now you have no excuses not to do this ride! |
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| Our fundraising site makes an easy job of raising the $120 minimum pledge to join the ride. All you have to do is circulate this site to friends and family via Facebook and email, and ask for them to contribute to these worthy sanctuaries. On the site they can post a message of support and let everyone know they are giving a donation in your name. |
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| We're also working on awesome vegan prizes for the folks who raise the most money beyond the $120 entry fee. |
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| Come along for the ride or make a donation and help us reach (or even better, exceed) our goal of $15,000 for these three very worthy causes. |
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| Please e-mail Eric (eric[at]idausa[dot]org) or Matt (matt[at]idausa[dot]org) or call 503-249-9996 for more information. Please also visit our donation page and consider making a donation to help support our ride. |
| Hay Day at OTP
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| OTP is looking for a few burly men or women to help unload a few tons of hay on Wednesday August 4th from 1:00 until about 3:00 at the sanctuary. No previous experience required since this is a brawn not brain activity. Good company and vegan snacks provided. If this sounds like your idea of a good time please contact Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com or call 503-756-8652. Yeehaw! |
| Thank you to everyone who came to the Open House yesterday! Was a super fun day. We hope everyone had a good time. Thanks to all for the cash and food donations. Thanks to the musicians for the wonderful music. And thanks again to the businesses who donated food for the event. Very appreciated!! We will be posting photos from yesterday to the website sometime this week. If you would like to offer comments/suggestions please email Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com. |
 | A kind hearted woman named Michelle bought rabbits at the Woodburn auction rather than see them go to slaughter. OTP has adopted thirteen of these lucky bunnies who are now happily hopping across the grass in the new enclosure. Come meet them at the Open House this Saturday. |
| Rescued kitty and her baby need a home
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| Two beautiful kitties not currently residing at OTP are in need of a loving home. If you are able to help and would like more information (and pictures) please click here. Thanks! |
| Huge thanks to the following Open House food donors...
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| Thank you to all our wonderful food donors for the Open House scheduled for Saturday July 24th, 5 to 8 pm. Vegan sausages for the vegan bbq are being donated by Turtle Island. Proper Eats, an organic vegan cafe in St Johns, will be donating salad fixings to our meal. Buns are being provided by Nature Bake. Dave's Killer Bread is giving us vegan cookies and Turtle Mountain will be donating delicious vegan ice cream desserts. Yum! We can hardly wait! |
| Portobello supports OTP...
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| ...and here's a delicious opportunity for you to support Portobello and Out to Pasture. Out to Pasture Sanctuary is so thrilled to be the first 10% Tuesdays charity partner of Portobello Vegan Trattoria in their beautiful new space! Go eat deliciousness there every Tuesday in July, and 10% of the proceeds go directly to benefit the animals at OTP. |
| Here's your chance to check out the 18 minute documentary about life at Out to Pasture created by three students from the NW Film Center in Portland. Settle down, grab some kale chips and enjoy this fine film. |
| Thanks to Michael Poulin-Roberson, Andrew Price and Laura Shepherd for all their hard work. You can watch the documentary by clicking here. |
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Come join the fun at the OTP Open House scheduled for Saturday, July 24th from 5 - 8 pm. This free event features live music, free vegan bbq, pinatas, and blueberry picking. The free vegan bbq is being made possible by the generous donation from Turtle Island Foods Inc., located in Hood River. Click on the Turtle Island Foods logo to learn more about Turtle Island Foods and to check out all of their yummy vegan
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| More yard sale and work party news
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| Howdy everyone, due to the present soggy ground conditions the yard sale, weather permitting, will take place on June 19. The work party that had been scheduled for that date has been moved to tomorrow, June 12. Very sorry about the short notice. If you would like to participate in the work party please RSVP to Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com. Thanks. |
| The yard sale scheduled for this Memorial Day weekend has been postponed due to an uncertain weather forecast. We're hoping for better weather next weekend so if anyone knows a sun dance.... |
| Bolt Neighborhood Fabric Boutique sale
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| The date for the Bolt Neighborhood Fabric Boutique sale to benefit OTP will be Sunday May 23rd. Ten percent of the sale proceeds will go to help the animals at Out to Pasture. So go check out all the great fabrics at Bolt and help OTP at the same time. Thank you Bolt Fabrics for thinking of the animals and letting OTP be the organization of the month. |
| Bolt Neighborhood Fabric Boutique
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| Out to Pasture Sanctuary and the Modified Style Fashion Show will be featured at Bolt Neighborhood Fabric Boutique during the month of May. There will be a sale in May (date to be announced) where a percentage of the total sales will go to OTP. Bolt Fabric is located at 2136 NE Alberta St in Portland. See www.boltfabricboutique.com and check out all the beautiful fabrics, patterns, classes and more. Thank you Bolt Fabric for your support of OTP. |
| Earth Day Celebration 2010
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 | Out to Pasture Sanctuary unfurled the new banner above our table at the Earth Day Celebration at the vegan mini-mall in Portland. Other than a few showers, it was a great day. Thanks to Ninette, Kevin, Adam, Syd, Anna, Courtney, and Matt for greeting people at our table. And check out the new OTP t-shirts (larger image).
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| The next OTP work party is scheduled for Saturday, May 8th from 11 am until 4 pm. Volunteers are welcome to come and stay for however long they want. Planned projects include painting, fencing, manure management, finishing the rooster pen addition, working on our new cat enclosure and more. Please RSVP through the OTP Facebook page or by emailing Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com. Wear old clothes, gloves, boots if available. Vegan snacks will be provided so come join the fun! |
| Earth Day festivities tabling
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| Hey everyone...OTP will be tabling with other kind folks this Saturday. Location is the vegan mini-mall, SE 12th & Stark in Portland. Time will be from approx. 11 am until sometime mid to later afternoon. Food Fight will be providing free vegan pizza samples. At the OTP table we will have new t-shirts. Please stop by and say hi...and perhaps visit one or more of the businesses in the vegan mini-mall. The main Earth Day event will be happening across the street. Hope to see you tomorrow! |
| It's like magic the way all that useless clutter falling out of your closet could be turned into hay for the animals at Out to Pasture. Just donate it to our yard sale scheduled for Memorial Day weekend (weather permitting). Yard sale donations are tax-deductible and can be dropped off anytime onto the porch at 2907 NE Weidler Street, Portland 97232 (yellow house across the street from the Hollywood Fred Meyer store and office of John Collins). Proceeds to be used for housing, veterinary expenses, and feed for the animals. To arrange for a tax receipt or for further information contact Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com or call 503-756-8652. |
 | Over a dozen people showed up to volunteer at OTP. Some clipped a path through a jungle of blackberrry bushes for a new fenceline in the back pasture. Others hauled load after load of wood chips to the pig pen and horse shelters. And others dug postholes for Babe's new pig pen. Stalls were cleaned and manure was gathered into large piles for composting. Rick Vandenbrook the hoof trimmer came out and trimmed Singer's
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| hooves. The documentary film crew filmed all the activity. And the peacock fanned his feathers. What a great day! Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make a nicer home for the animals at OTP.
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| Another volunteer (work party) opportunity
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| In addition to the work day scheduled for Saturday April 10th, we are inviting volunteers to come out on Wednesday April 7th starting around 11 am to continue working on the new pen for Babe, the farm pig mix. Plus Rick the hoof trimmer will be here trimming hooves. This will be the last day the documentary film crew will be here and they would like some footage of a work day. Vegan snacks provided. So come join the fun! |
| RSVP to Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com or call 503-756-8652. |
| The next work party, April 10
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| Event: Out To Pasture Animal Sanctuary Work Party |
| When: Saturday, April 10, 10:30 am-4:00 pm |
| Where: Estacada, OR |
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| For details please check out the event's Facebook page. If you are interested in joining us please RSVP thru the Facebook page or to Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com. |
 | | For over fifty years peafowl roamed freely around the Portland zoo until several years ago when a boy and a peacock went after the same piece of dropped popcorn. The peacock pecked the boy's hand and grabbed the popcorn. Although there was no damage to the hand, the father threatened to sue the zoo. Even the bystanders all took the side of the peacock. A second incident occurred
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| when a peacock landed on another boy's head. Again no damages. Rather than see this as rare photo op, the parents also complained and the peafowl were banished from the zoo.
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| As of Saturday March 20th during the work party, three of the peafowl are now living at OTP including the peacock from the notorious popcorn incident. (He has been named Redenbacher after Orville Redenbacher, the popcorn magnate). After a period of confinement, the peafowl will be released to roam freely around OTP.
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 | | Volunteers from the Portland Animal Defense League and PSU's Animal Liberation Coalition celebrated spring break and the equinox at OTP with lots of hard work under a warm sun. Workers battled a Tsunami wall of blackberries to clear a fenceline for Babe, a potbellied/farm pig mix coming soon to OTP. Another heroic group of volunteers spent most of the day staining Leroy the goat's new fence
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| under the scrutinizing gaze of Leroy. Thanks to everyone who came out and worked so hard to make the place nicer for the animals. The next work party is scheduled for Saturday April 10th starting at 10:30 am.
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 | | Unwanted, McGuinn and McGuire were dropped off at the feedstore to be sold for meat. Instead they came to OTP to live and have joined the daily early morning crowing concert.
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| Work Party Saturday March 20th
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| Volunteers from PSU's Student Animal Liberation Coalition (SALC) and Portland Animal Defense League (ADL) will be coming out to help build an expansion to the rooster pen, stain the new goat fence and to build a new pig pen. Other folks who would like to join us are of course welcome. The help is much appreciated. Please wear old clothes. Vegan snacks will be provided. Festivities will start around 10:30 am. Any volunteers not from SALC or ADL please contact Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com or call 503-756-8652 before noon Friday the 19th. |
 |  | | Two roosters (left is Zappa; the other is waiting on his name) awaiting slaughter at the feedstore were adopted by Out to Pasture last Saturday March 6th. Our next work party on the 20th will be dedicated to expanding the rooster pen. We will also be starting a new enclosure for another pot-bellied/ farm pig mix who must be adopted or she will be
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| euthanized for the crime of being over the weight limit for pigs in the city.
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 | | We had a great work party yesterday-we finished Leroy's fence and he's now out there chomping away on blackberry leaves. Huge thanks to the Portland Animal Defense League (ADL) volunteers who cleared out the blackberry bushes and we finished the cedar fence, adding cattle panels behind the fence so Leroy can't butt the fence down.
Our next work party will be Saturday March 20 with the PSU Student Animal Liberation Coalition. More details coming soon. Anyone interested in joining us should contact Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com. Vegan snacks will be provided.
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| The goodness of honey bees
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 | | After a group of homeless bees swarmed the grape arbor last summer, John waited until dark then cut the branch and moved them to a bee hive box. We appreciate the bees pollinating the fruit trees and blueberry patch and enjoy watching them at work. Now with a home to call their own, they are happily buzzing around in the warm spring air.
You are probably aware of the importance of bees other than that they are amazing |
| creatures (and it's not the honey....it's the pollination) but some good information regarding why we need bees is provided at this site and this one. There is a lot of information out there (on the 'net) about honey bees. Save the bees...don't kill them. |
| Out to Pasture has been picked to be one of the recipients of the Change for Change charitable giving program at the Whole Foods Fremont store in Portland. Customers reusing a grocery bag can either get 10 cents off their purchase or have the money go to one of three charities which change every few months. Starting January 18th OTP will be one of the three charities for this giving cycle. Thank you to Whole Foods for their kind support of Out to Pasture. |
| Greetings to Jumpy and Splotch
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Arriving January 31st, two little lop eared bunnies were adopted from their cages in an apartment and moved to OTP. Jumpy and Splotch are
now happily hopping around and digging in the straw in the Rabbitat.
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Our newest potbellied pig Hank was sent to live at OTP on February 6th, 2010 due to behavior
problems. Unable to enroll in an anger management class, Hank was facing euthanasia before finding a home with us.
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Blinky the feral cat went to Dr. Cole's office in Scio on February 3, 2010 to get much needed eye surgery for entropian. Entropian is a
condition where the eyelids turn in, rubbing the eyes resulting in chronic infection and irritation. Blinky also got treated for ear mites, fleas, lice, and was vaccinated, bathed and groomed. Testing
negative for FIV and FELV, Blinky now has an excellent prognosis for a happy future. Thanks to our donors for making Blinky's vet care possible. |
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...we submitted to rewire the outbuildings was finally approved and the permit issued. John and Jay are working
every weekend until the electrical system is finished and approved. The animals at Out to Pasture will soon be enjoying their heated pads and heated water buckets again. Out to Pasture appreciates all the
donors who made this project possible. |
| Thanks to everyone who rustled up cds/dvds from their closets for the drive organized by Food Fight Grocery. The $800 raised is going towards the Out to Pasture Sanctuary Megadrive. (Yeeee-haw)
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who spent part of your day with us. Close to 100 people attended the Open House on Sunday, January 31st, 2010. It was a great day with sunshine and lots of snacks for both
humans and animals. And thank you for your generous donations! Was so much fun that we're planning another Open House...sometime in July...with dry ground and blueberry picking...and the pigs will be out there eating grass....though I'm sure they won't mind a few blueberries. |
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| Ollie, the newest rooster, who recently was added to the rooster flock and is doing quite well. He and Nicolai are great friends and roost together. |
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| Spike, our little foster boar, is scheduled to be neutered, dewormed, and vaccinated at Dr. Coles in Scio on Saturday the 30th and will be placed in his new home later that day. The pig rescue woman, Patty Hill, picked up Spike after he was found wandering lost in Oregon City. Clackamas County Animal Control does not house pigs. We only wish Spike could be here for the Open House so everyone could meet him. |
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| John is trying out the donated wood chipper-great for small projects like walkways for people and cats. |
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| OTP mention in the 1/19/10 Oregonian
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| Cat Food Donation: Purrrr...
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| The PETCO Foundation has generously donated 20 bags of cat food to OTP. Thank you from Puff the cat and all his furry friends. OTP has helped trap, neuter and release over 60 mostly feral cats who are fed at feeding stations at the sanctuary. |
| Donor action...OTP thanks you!
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| On January 5, OTP received a $400 donation from Emiko Badillo, a Portland resident and co-owner of Food Fight! Grocery. The donation was the prize of a two-month contest that she and her friends held to see who could lose the largest percentage of body weight during the winter holidays by exercising and eating less junk food. Each person paid money to participate, with the victor winning the whole pot. OTP asked Emiko about the contest and her decision to donate her prize. |
| What inspired you to give the contest money to OTP? |
| The contest started almost at the same time as attention grew for Out to Pasture's winterization projects. A lot of us were thinking so hard on how to raise money for them, and it dawned on me there was that pool of money we all had just put in for the contest sitting there that could do Out to Pasture a lot more good than any of us. |
| Once you made to decision to donate the money if you won, did it change your approach to the contest? |
| I'm not a competitive person. But once, I decided I wanted to win for Out to Pasture, this strange side of me came out I had never seen before. I pushed myself harder than I normally would have. My husband, Chad, was a little scared because he had never seen me say words like, "I have to win!" I never said, "I WANT to win." It was more like I had to for the sanctuary. |
| Why did you pick OTP to be the recipient of your winnings? |
| I guess because I know them personally, and they're local. I know how hard Kit and John, who run it, work daily to keep the animals cared for. Not a lot of people know about Out to Pasture, yet, so they've had a hard time raising money. Kit and John are all alone out there, and they've had problems getting grants, so they need as much outside help as any group, if not more lately. |
| What would you say to others who are looking to raise money for a cause but may not know where to start? |
| Maybe get examples from how other people have done it, and don't think it's harder than it is. And remember, a little goes a long way. It's always better to try then sit there wishing. |
| Interested in fundraising for OTP? Need help brainstorming ideas? Contact kim@outtopasturesanctuary.org. |
| Thank you to all who have made donations to OTP! |
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| We believe that non-human animals value their lives as much as we value our own and deserve to live free of exploitation and cruelty. |
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| Our gray cat SSL (short for Smokestack Lightning) has recovered from his eye surgery for entropian. Entropian is an eye condition where the eyelids turn inward and rub the eyes resulting in constant irritation and infections. SSL now has the most beautiful green eyes and is much happier and friendlier. Thank you donors for making SSL's operation possible. And thanks to Syd, Mars, and Anna for transporting SSL to Dr. Coles in Scio.
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| November 23, 2009...with cars driving by at 60 mph, Cleo (Cleopatra) the peahen lifted her head while her peacock mate, crushed by a car, lay dead nearby. Luckily John spotted her as we drove by. Her leg injured, Cleo spent time recuperating in the laundry room but she is doing much better now and is hanging with the bunnies.
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| Our two new llamas arrived Sunday, September 13th. Limo and Coco had spent the last few years tied to trees (as in 24/7) before being turned over to the llama rescue. Limo and Coco are now at OTP where they roam freely in our large pasture, sampling the foliage, and grazing. Never to be tied up again, we look forward to many happy years with Limo and Coco.
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| Already loaded in the back of the pickup truck on his way to be sold for meat, we were able to adopt LeRoy the goat |
| at the last minute. Previously left tethered all day, LeRoy is now enjoying roaming around to meet the other animals and to sample the foliage. After polishing off the rose bushes, LeRoy has now moved on to the blackberry bushes for some serious munching.
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| Sergio the donkey was abandoned by his former caretaker and left in a large field. He |
| went years without any veterinary care or hoof trims until Oregon Animal Rescue brought him to OTP. Terrified of humans, Sergio had to be tranquilized to be touched by anyone or get his hooves trimmed. Happily Sergio is now starting to trust humans and no longer has to be tranquilized. Much calmer Sergio now walks up to humans looking for treats. |
| Singer is a 26 year old former racehorse and show jumper. Nervous |
| and high strung, Singer left the racetrack unable to handle the stress of crowds or commotion. Next trained to be jumper, Singer became dangerous to rideand hard to show with behaviors including bucking, bolting, and rearing. Retired at OTP, Singer is now happy to be in the pasture living a quiet life away from horse shows and race tracks. |
| For years, Ruby the pot bellied pig had lived her life in a |
| horse stall never getting to root in the dirt or forage like a normal pig. When the new property owners took possession of the property they planned to have Ruby euthanized. Luckily Patty Hill from Pig Rescue Services and Placement was able to bring her to OTP. Grossly overweight from a diet of junk food and garbage, Ruby was too fat to spay. After losing weight OTP scheduled Ruby to be spayed. Unfortunately, multiple tumors had formed in Ruby's little body. Rather than choosing euthanasia, Ruby had surgery and is now back at OTP being treated with homeopathic remedies and fed a nutritious diet. She now spends her days digging in the dirt and eating blackberry leaves. |
| Frenchie was rescued from a drug house in Portland. The woman who rescued her said large guard |
| dogs had killed the other cats before she got there. Most likely suffering from trauma, Frenchie has a variety of erratic behavior problems which make her unadoptable to most homes. She can be aggressive and destructive for no reason. Frenchie requires a lot of space and gentle handling. She has calmed down a lot and gotten friendlier since she arrived a year ago.
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