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Update Thursday : Friends friends Friends: Where are YOU?
We Really Need Donations RIGHT AWAY, I only have a week! He has agreed to hold the pigs for me for a week while i fundraise, he said he would like me to have the pigs, i have been in touch with him all year checking in. But he also told me, they have to go so he is taking names and numbers of interested callers who want them for holiday meat. If i cant get the money needed in a week, time is out for the pigs, and understand i cant bring them here with no place to put them, i need fence posts and really would LOVE to get a strong roll of 5 foot horse fence. I still have a little fence from Ed the goat and we have lots from Walter and Francis but i dont think it is strong by my standard, it will do if it has to, but i will reinforce it with roofing...If We Could Raise $250 more ASAP (for fence posts and bowls feed,) I could get the 4 sibling and start a home for them. Then move onto the father and Aunties Needed Funds. At some point though i will need the roll of strong horse fence costing $250. Please Donate today, a good start on day one, but day 2 slowed down to a trickle. This cant happen, only 5 days left...
It is with a broken heart and loss of words, this campaign is going to be perhaps our biggest challenge to date, with the financial crisis and lack of financial support it is causing. Problem is, the animals are in need now more than ever. As i write this, i am already tearing up, to see their innocent faces, they don't know what lies ahead, the horror of a backyard slaughter. To think, i may not be able to help them, and i have so long wanted to help these pigs and reunite Rosie with her family, i tried once before but was not able to. It is now or never. If i loose these ones, a little bit of my heart will die with them. Rosie is an extraordinary pig, just amazing. i am assuming her family is too. Please give, anything will help, just give something...please. I cannot do this without the financial help of compassionate peopleDo nothing and .. they die. Rosie's family (rosie is our fabulous pig friend) is being offered for sale as meat. The thought makes me sad for obvious reasons. I was on the internet and i see pig for sale..waimea...i click...wait...the number looks familiar,
then i see, another pig...same lister, name familiar, pig familiar and i suddenly realize where this is going.. then i see 4 pigs....
and i recognize them as rosies brother and sisters...oh nooooooo
I already feel this campaign is a doomed effort, but i decided i would have to try anyways, i could not live with myself if i didnt try my best to prevent these slaughters. I would love to save them, there are people out there, looking at these pictures, who would love to eat them. Fund raising has been dead lately, no matter how much i ask and ask, nothing but a few donations from the same few people. Not nearly enough to do what needs to be done. Now i see the family is for sale, and i dont know how i am going to make this a success. I am so stretched financially, with donations way down and dying, it is getting a little scarey.
The three sisters and one brother are for sale at $100 each, as huli huli: which is hawaiian for rotisserie. These piggies below will be hung from a stick full body and cooked over an open fire pit for a party, they are being offered as thanksgiving huli huli.
Rosies Daddy is $275, 
Rosies Auntie is listed as lau lau, which is a hawaiian pork thing-food, $300.
$975 to save the 6 above pigs from slaughter. As usual these costs are only the beginning. We will need posts and fencing, another $1000, Transport, Shelters, Supplies, and Labor $1000. We have set the fundraising goal at $3000. We have never made $3000 in any of our campaigns, as i said, these pigs may be doomed. And here is where my heart will break again, so many times this work breaks it...not only what the industry and people do to the animals, but what the activists don't won't or can't do for them. With 3900 friends if everyone gave $1 just one dollar, i know times are tough, but they cant be that tough? Who doesnt have $1, four quarters? Even if half would give $1, it would pay for the pigs and the fencing shelter. But i have asked again and again for just $2 in the past and maybe only a dozen people ever give anything. really? activists? act-ivists? So...i have my doubts. i can only do so much, i pay for everything for the education center and sanctuary, it is expensive, donations come in and they help with the rescues and sometimes they give me a moment of rest or even carry me to the next step which i am unable to make. but they dont cover all the costs, no where near it..the feed is so expensive and the bedding and the vetting etc etc...i owe so many people so much...anyways...and i am appreciative of all who donate, they are an inspiration to me and allow this work to go on...and it will go on...
but..another heartbreaker is i was offered $20,000 but it had to go through a non profit, i am not 501c3 yet. Paper work is in, dont know how i am going to pay the fees ($1000). So i turned to a few animal rights and vegan organizations to see if they would umbrella the donation and grant it to me, they all turned me down. And they are helping animals? in one word yes, they could of helped our 108 animal friends. I so need that money to make the move to the 33 acres, without it i cant get there. But no, they couldn't help, they would rather throw a lecture at me, call me names, or copy paste a quote from the peta bible on sanctuaries. Had they of helped, i could of helped these pigs, they were on the list of what to do and who to help with the 20K. but nooooooo. heartbreakers. they take the money and run, they dont care for any rescued animals, they dont understand. so who gets their organizations money, the 2 leggers, as usual. And the irony is, they feel fine taking it, for their work for the animals, what animals? what work? Fantasy Land.
Lately i am getting very concerned, my mantra if you know me and ask how things are going with the animals i say. donations arent coming in...it is my constant stress...i am seeking other routes of income, but...really..donations should not be as low as they are..and i understand, you are hit up all the time, help this one help that one, how can you help them all, i know...i know, but...this is a tough campaign, because i am not sure it can be done, usually i go into them facing the impossible and knowing there will be people who will help, but lately i have been asking for help and it seems no one is listening. I asked for help with the pig barns and shelter $3000, nothing, i asked for help with the $240 weeks bill, nothing, i asked for help with the rescued highway kitty to go to vet, nothing. I sent out messages maybe 600 or so, when trying to rescue walter and francis, who are with us now of course due to a few friends who donated and the power of my iou's and kind friends. But most of the emails i sent via myspace went unread. Ouch. Really? Unread, i spend hours sending them one by one, wasting my time, asking for help in transporting walter and francis and making homes for them here, and so little help came in. If we didnt adopt them, they would be dead, they would of been put down, no one wanted them.
So i face this one, little pigs for the meat eaters delights, and for the first time...i am feeling already defeated, i can hear the screams of those innocent pigs, i can see the fear and pain in their eyes, i can feel them thinking this shouldnt be happening, why me? murder. HELP ME PREVENT THIS MURDER HOW CAN YOU NOT HELP ???? i will not be sleeping until they are here with me, or they have left the earth. If we cannot band together and help these pigs, i will have to rethink if this is the team i want to be playing for. I will leave the vegans and animal rights activists and head out to the general public and ask them to help me help the animals. I thought you would understand, i hope you can understand. If some activist do not show some action, 3900 friends? I will loose faith in the power of this movement to help animals, with direct action for individual animals in need. Here is a case where animals are in need of animal activists, will you act? Will you give a little cash? Or will they have to die because someone else paid to eat them? I will be in action mode non stop until whatever will happen, happens. We really need many of you to help these pigs, please give what you can afford, we are hoping that many will give a little and a few will give a lot and alot will give somewhere in between.
I cannot do this without your help, please help me help them, Donate Now!
Special Thanks to Our Friends who have donated so far to help save the pigs! Please join this list of compassionate caring amazing and inspiring people:
Thank You Oinks to: Peggy Spiezio, Rolanda Ware, Rolanda's Mum, James Gorman, David VanDenBerg, Patrick Simms, Deborah Jones, Tracey Rawlings, Anne-Marie Majcen, Patricia Mccaskill, Stephen Johnson, Keegan Kuhn, Bridget P Rogers, Christine Lesieur, Mary Castellaneta, Gisselle Camacho, Nan Sea Love, Ida Engberg,
Rainbow Connection, Kylise Howell,
Melanie Lindemann,
Marcia McDuffie, Béatrice Halley, Daniela Pennini, Pouder
Leandre, Wanda Souza, Jody Sidote, Peggy Spiezio, Tom Veenstra, Jill Russak
Your name could be next, please donate.
Any amount helps, we have a ways to go and not much time left before
thanksgiving meat sale.