July 23, 2024
We have exciting news!
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Six Gottingen pigs—Rocco, Max, Jake, Viggo, Dennis, and Aegon—were rescued recently from a research lab and are now safe in three sanctuary homes thanks to YOU and your support of New Life Animal Sanctuary! This sensational project has been nicknamed Operation Oink!
Leaving behind a miserable laboratory cage, these pigs now are experiencing the life they deserve. In the lab they were just numbers, but now they have names! Imagine the excitement for them to experience everything for the first time — rooting in the mud, lounging in the sun with a friend, or feasting on a fresh watermelon!
Thank you animal-loving friends, for your support in accomplishing this amazing feat!
We need your help again soon. Your donation today will help us with the next rescue and allow us to keep our current residents living their best lives. Please donate here and save more lives with us!
New Life Animal Sanctuary specializes in rescuing animals from labs, and even though we are at capacity in our sanctuary, we are thrilled to have the experience and relationships with research labs, built carefully over time, to play this vital role in saving these lucky pigs.
It is extremely rare for any animal to get out of a research lab alive. It is not unusual for animals to be used in multiple, often invasive experiments over many years, only to be eventually assigned to a “terminal” study in which they are killed to have their tissues and organs examined. In research, pigs are isolated, kept alone in small cages, deprived of sunshine, fresh air, and opportunities to engage in normal social behaviors.
After weeks of complex coordination and planning, rescuers traveled thousands of miles over three long days in two separate transports to bring the pigs safely to their new homes. The pigs went in pairs to Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary in Scio, Oregon; Wildlings Forest Sanctuary in Portland, Oregon; and Leo’s Animal Rescue in Onyx, California. Additionally, the Animal Legal Defense Fund played a significant role, helping organize logistics and making a one-time financial contribution towards the care and well-being of each pig.
Gottingen pigs are small, specifically bred for use in biomedical research, with the goal of having a small, compliant, docile pig with good ear veins, all for making them easier to experiment on. These sweet pigs’ gentle nature is exploited for the ease of subjecting them to invasive procedures.
But no more! Now they are safe and happy, thanks to your generosity. Please, consider partnering with us again on our lifesaving work. Donate today!
For the animals,
Gina Lynn
Founder/President
P.S. We will never know exactly what happened to these smart and sensitive pigs behind locked lab doors, but we know that animal testing on pigs is a cruel and gruesome practice. In laboratories, pigs are poisoned, mutilated, implanted with equipment, and killed for a variety of research types including drug toxicity, testing medical devices, organ transplant, and general surgical training, despite many of these uses having modern humane equivalents that don’t use animals and produce more reliable results.
We know you share our mission to forever end this senseless torture of pigs and other animals in research. Donate to Operation Oink! today and together we will make that day come sooner.