![]() He also loves to play with his treat ball and gets very excited when treats are being handed out. He spends his days visiting with all the animals at the sanctuary. Once dumped but now a loving member of our big, happy family. ![]() They rescued him and found him a forever home here at HFS. They came across Dennis and quickly realized he had been someone's "pet" and was not going to survive on his own. He was rescued by a compassionate couple out for hike on federal lands here in Central Oregon. We will continue to take special care of this sweet girl and feel super privileged to be able to do so.ĭennis came to HFS in October 2021. We are so proud of her resiliency and ability to adapt to her new surroundings all while being blind. Her comfort level has come a long way! If she sniffs your hand and recognizes you she will quickly flip over for some cozy belly rubs. So on some sunny days we tuck in the other pigs for a nap, so that Polly can feel safe on her own laying outside in the sun. So she went on a diet (not happily:-) but can now get around more easily but being blind she is timid around other animals. If her quality of life was to improve she needed to lose weight. And that's when she was rescued and brought to HFS. Luckily the owner knew her life was in danger if something didn't happen to improve her situation. In her previous home she was injured and without proper care she ended up staying in her house until she became so obese and her hooves so long that she couldn't really get around. She is blind so she needs extra attention. These 3 "little pigs" as we like to call them now spend their days rolling in the mud, playing with toys and looking for hugs from volunteers. Unfortunately most animals bound for slaughter feel the same way and are either too scared to jump or if they do are rounded up, put back on the truck and ultimately end up being slaughtered. She somehow survived the fall and was found running down the highway looking for safe haven. Just like humans, her instinct to survive kicked in and she jumped from the truck. Fortunately many rescue groups intervened, saved and rehomed all the pigs to sanctuaries across the United States.Ĭlover, raised as a production pig was in a truck bound for slaughter. Confined inside a house without access to proper food or even water, Rusty & Poppy would not have survived much longer. They were amongst hundreds of pigs living in a deplorable situation. Poppy and Rusty were rescued from a hoarding situation in Portland, OR. By 1966, the one-room country school had become a thing of the past.Clover, Poppy and Rusty are one big happy family, now! Although they arrived at HFS under different circumstances, they now love each other as siblings. School districts consolidated, pooling their resources to provide more teachers, broader curriculum, and opportunity for extracurricular activities. ![]() Equipped with little more than a blackboard and a few textbooks, teachers passed on to their pupils cultural values along with a sound knowledge of the three Rs.īy the turn of the century, the population began to shift to the cities and country schools began to lose students and tax support. She had to be a nurse, janitor, musician, philosopher, peacemaker, wrangler, fire stoker, baseball player, professor, and poet for less than $50 a month. ![]() The school teacher, sometimes slightly older than her pupils, was a renaissance individual. When they arrived on their first day of school they may have only known how to speak a foreign language but they soon learned how to speak, read, spell, and write English. They got to school on foot, on horseback, or in a wagon. The children who attended ranged in age from five to 21 and endured dust storms, prairie fires, and cattle drives swirling past the school house in order to get an eighth grade education. They were called names like Prairie Flower, Buzzard Roost, and Good Intent. For a hundred years, white frame or native stone one-room schoolhouses dotted the section corners across Kansas.
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