This nine-year-old is aiming to save the lives of pigs after learning it's common for people who have them as pets to surrender them as they grow.
Owner Christy Guipe said the 6.5-acre sanctuary gets requests to take in more pigs every week.
A 9-year-old named Alaina Holdread of Highland, Michigan, is aiming to save the lives of pigs after learning its common for owners to surrender them as pets."We need people like [Alaina] to sponsor these pigs, otherwise all the financial responsibility is on us," Guipe told"GMA.""Most were surrendered by families who were told they'd make good pets. The owners, they cry when they hand over the pig, but then they're gone.
A 9-year-old named Alaina Holdread of Highland, Michigan, is aiming to save the lives of pigs after learning its common for owners to surrender them as pets. Here she reads to her pet pig Daisy, in an undated photo."It's not illegal," she added."It's just people take them home, but they're not zoned for them."Through her organization, Pink for Pigs, Alaina Holdread, 9, of Highland, Michigan, spends time with pigs at sanctuaries and has sponsored one in her area.
A 9-year-old named Alaina Holdread of Highland, Michigan, is aiming to save the lives of pigs after learning its common for owners to surrender them as pets.
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