Mildred is a 9-year-old, female pet pig who came to foster care years ago. Mildred, like her daughter, Bessy, needed immediate
rescue and luckily one of our PPN volunteers was there to take the call. Mildred's human mother called our foster home in a panic. Apparently her husband had been physically abusing her, the children and the animals. Finally she had enough courage to have him arrested, but she did not know how long he would be in jail. This poor battered woman was planning to move out of her farm immediately, with the hopes her husband would not find her again. Despite her fright and need to move quickly, she was very concerned about her animals and wanted to place all of them in new homes so they too could escape the abuse. PPN saved Mildred and Bessy. Although from outward
appearances, Mildred is a very adoptable pet pig, when you get near her or try to get to know her, you can tell she had been badly abused. She often passed over for adoption because she is completely afraid of people and cannot really be touched. From the stories our volunteer heard, Mildred's human father would swing the pigs by their back legs when they were small and hit or kick them too. We believe he tortured and teased Mildred for most of her life. As you can imagine, Mildred is still traumatized from her rough beginnings. Even after being well cared for in our foster home, she still does not trust humans. We are hopeful that if Mildred and Bessy find the right homes, they will both learn that not all humans are bad and may even become a little less people shy. Until then, they are both safe and secure
in foster care, never to be abused again. Your sponsorship of this wonderful pig will help to defray the costs of caring for her and will help us to help many other pigs like Mildred who are just waiting for a second chance. UPDATE - Mildred was placed with Bridges, the meanest pig I ever knew... Mildred was put with Bridges trying to find a way to make Bridges happier. He was happier with Mildred to push around and Mildred seem to like Bridges' manly ways, she needed a man to tell her what to do and he was just the man to do it! (Some girls are that way, you know!) The two of them have been placed with a wonderful woman who has adopted several pigs from us over the years and always likes to take home the ones that are unhappy at RMF and have an attitude, which fit Bridges description to a tee. She took Mildred because PPN wouldn't separate the two. | 
