Did you ever find a home for the kittens? I live in TN so I can't help, but I am interested and think you did the right thing.

Hi everyone!! I live in NW Wisconsin and I met my first potbelly pig at a flea market where a lady was selling them. I fell in love from the first time I saw Frankie (that's what I named him). Well that was probably 8 years ago and now I have 23 piggies...many rescues from around our area. People think 23 PIGS, what are you thinkng!!! But I love each and every one. Many of them have suffered through terrible odds to make it to my home. I remember picking up Rudy, Stewart, and Maggie from a breeders house... I had only intended on taking one pig at the time but when I arrived and found them all living with their mother in a large water tank I took them all. They were all malnourished and Rudy weighed less than 2 pounds at 8 weeks old. The mother died the day after I took the little ones They are over 3 years old now and although they are healthy they are very small for their age. Rudy was a special problem because he also had a strange birth defect (but I won't get into that). In Jan. of last year I got a call from a breeder who said that his pig had babies and wouldn't take care of them. So I went and picked up 3 one-day old piggies and bottle fed them every 3 hours for the first month of their lives. One of the pigs (Oscar) didn't make it but the other two are doing wonderful. Each of them have a bad eye from being born out in the frigid Wisconsin winter. (I think it was -40 that day). The last pig (so far) that found it's way to our house is Junior. When we first met him we about fell over......he's a BIG boy!! The worst part is that he isn't fixed and we don't know how we will get him to a vet or even if the vet will want to work on such a large pig. We get all the boys fixed right away to avoid any accidents. We don't fix the girls because there isn't a vet around here that will do it...we have to travel 60 miles for the boys! Anyway, that's my story, or at least some of it. There are many more stories of how some of these lovely piggies came to be mine. Once they come to our house they stay, I just can't give them away. Frankie sadly passed away 2 years ago but we will never forget him or his legacy. It's because of him that we now have: Rudy, Stewart, Maggie, Colby, Maya, PJ, Junior, Charlotte, Puddles, Adrianne, Eddie, Arnold, Henry, Stanley, Betsy, Elliott, Bubba, Scooter, Lincoln, Hoover, Dupa, Ebony, and Beverly. So here's to all of you who care for your pets and for those of you who take in unwanted or abused animals of any kind. All animals deserve love, food and shelter. Take care

Jennifer - what a great and sad story - Our rott was abused - tied - she came to us with ligature marks around her neck and at 22 pounds for a full grown dog - It's ashame dare i say criminal what some people take for "care" - You are truly a wonderful person for taking him in - & I imagine he will be grateful every day for the love he now recieves! On a sharing level - my father talks of his youth & castrating sheep with either a rubber band type setup or by simply shearing them off with their teeth - and of disposing of unwanted litters by drowning - I am only guessing here & it's a level of realization I have had to come to with my father - the old ways of regarding animals - are not maybe as evolved as ours are becomming... so it may be that her pride may have been from a long family understanding of how animals are regarded. I'm not condoning it - just sharing.

I am so sad My best friend is my 6month old puppy Tinkerbell. I came home last night and she was having a seizure. I rushed her to the ER and the ER vet told me she had a heart murmor. He said she needed heart surgery to close off the PDA valve and it would cost me over $2,000.00. I dont have this kind of funds. I have called all my resource and either they dont have the money or they say they can't spend that kind of money on a dog!!. Tinkerbell is a 2 lb blonde chihuahua and she means the world to me. Any one out there have any ideas on how I can get this surgery done? Any suggestions? and please pray for tinkerbell! Amanda and Tinkerbell

I love animals. All of them. I have 3 cats that I would give my life for, all of them are rescues, but herein lies the problem. One of them (and I don't know which one) has, over the last few months, begun to pee and poop outside of the litter box. Of course I can never catch the rascal in the act and I have no clue which one is doing it. It has become even harder to take care of them due to this as DB wil not help me out with the cats in anyway shape or form. With my surgery coming up and the face that I am not going to be able to deal with cat crap (Literally) I am giving serious thought to calling the shelters they came from and asking them to take them back. I have aggressively tried to find a home for the one I took in as a foster cat, but no one seems to want adult cats. I'm just at my wits end and completely heartbroken and don't know what to do.