From the Farm Sanctuary:I know that we recently reached out to you for help, but we are still in urgent need of funding to continue the mission to save pigs from the Midwest flood disaster.
This emergency rescue is historic, both in its mission and scope, and is expected to be one of the most expensive rescue operations Farm Sanctuary has ever undertaken. But we couldn't turn our backs on farm animals in need; we couldn't leave any pigs behind.
Farm Sanctuary's emergency rescue team is continuing to work day and night on the ground in Iowa to save the pigs. The urgency of the situation is only growing, as we have now rescued 69 pigs, most of whom are in very poor condition and a number of whom are pregnant.
We need your help right now to provide emergency onsite care to the pigs and transport them out of the disaster zone, as we have secured all survivors on the Iowa levee. Given the condition, number and size of these animals, this endeavor is massive.
Right now, Farm Sanctuary's National Shelter Director Susie Coston is onsite in Iowa providing triage care at a temporary holding facility. Here, the pigs are receiving care for third degree burns and treatment for abscesses and wounds.
We urgently need your additional gift this week for:
- Emergency onsite care and security
- A hired veterinarian, medical supplies, electrolytes, antibiotics
- Fans, hoses, kennels, fencing, shovels, rakes
- Temporary housing fees
- A series of large animal transport trailer trips from the disaster zone to our New York Shelter
Many of the farms hit by floodwaters were factory farms where breeding sows, normally confined to gestation crates, are continually impregnated to produce piglets for the pork industry. This means that a number of female pigs we have rescued are in late-term pregnancy and will soon be giving birth to babies, adding significantly to our total number of rescued pigs and making this huge-scale rescue even more challenging.
We need your additional gift today to continue this mission and bring these pigs to sanctuary, where they will be given the vital care they need to recover. Please help the pigs now with a special gift.
Many of these pigs once faced a lifetime of confinement in a dark factory building, only to be brutally slaughtered for pork. Today, they have a chance to live.
Please, help care for and transport the pigs to safety with a donation now.
Yours for the pigs,
Gene Baur
President & Co-founder
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