why deny a ewe its natural vocation in life of being a mother, especially when there is a shortage of meat worldwide?
i have never understood animal sanctuaries when they are full of pigs and sheep. bizarre.
I honestly don't think half of them know what they are doing.
I had to take two pigs to one - the people who owned a farm that I graze were moving to town and renting the farmhouse and so they gave up their sows, but couldn't bring themselves to eat them (I was originally taking them to the abbotoir on the promise of many sausages..
). So I pulled into the rescue centre (which mostly rescued dogs, it seemed) and asked where they wanted the pigs. The area that they had fenced off for them wasn't accessible by vehicle (which was bloody handy, I must say) and I had fed the pigs to get them on the trailer, so I knew they weren't really up for following a bucket. When I asked how we might get the pigs up to the enclosure, the person looked at me and in all seriousness suggested we carry them. Two full-grown OSB sows....
They got quite the shock when I let them out of the trailer, but still proudly told me that they would never be slaughtered and they had bought a couple sacks of nuts and it wasn't as expensive as they thought. You should have seen their faces when I told them that they would get through a sack each per week.......
I had half a mind to take the pigs back, but the original owners had moved out and I would have had to look after them indefinitley.....