Because Sometimes We All Need a Little Bit of Adorable

Wally and Nemo; photo courtesy of Woodstock FAS

In February, the folks at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary uploaded the below upbeat video of the happy arrival of four rescued piglets, Eva, Nemo, Pinky, and Wally. Noting similarities between pigs and dogs is nothing new, but still, I don't know how anyone could watch these little ones running around and playing gleefully at their safe new home and not think of puppies (and question their eating of pigs). The story of how they ended up at the sanctuary appears after the video:

From Woodstock:

Nemo, Eva, Pinky and Wally are alive today because a wildlife rehabilitator chose to act with her heart.

A man in western New York purchased 4 young pigs from an Amish farmer to raise for slaughter. He kept the pigs in a small, unheated garage, and one morning discovered that one of the pigs had given birth during the night. Twelve tiny piglets lay next to their mother, wet and covered with excrement. Eight were already dead and four others lay shivering and barely alive.

The rehabilitator, Shanon Rumbugh, received the call on New Year's Eve and she rushed the piglets home. She tirelessly nursed them back to health—but it wasn’t an easy road. Once they were stable, the original owners had the gall to ask for them back to raise for slaughter along with the others.

Needless to say, that request was not granted, and this little family is safe now. Read and see more here.

And for even more Woodstock adorableness, see also the really wonderful video of Fern the rescued goat included at the end of this April post: "Eating Goats with Glee, Rescuing Them with Compassion."