Brownie

• Name: Brownie
• Species: Feral Hog
• Age: 4 years old
• Weight: 75 lbs
• Sex: Female
• Special Needs: Crippled from Brucellosis.
• Personality: Compassionate, good mother, gentle interaction with researchers, trusting
• Favorite Food: corn and dog bone treats
• Family: White Foot (brother), Piglet-deceased (sister), Big Red – deceased (brother), two litters of piglets (Limpy is the most notable)
• Likes: Long soaks in the pig pond. Teaching her piglets and being a middle-tier sow.
• Dislikes: All Dogs. All Humans (except that nice lady that feeds me treats and that man with her)
• Needs: Temporary shelter in the cold. Antibiotics. Brucellosis cure. Pain relief. Fenced land to keep hunters away.

Brownie is one of our favorites and the last of the oldest pigs in our family. Brownie was bitten by a venomous snake when she was young and was nearly euthanized. But she showed her strength and overcame the pain and recovered. Brownie and her sister Piglet were the first of the older piglets to become mothers. Both being very compassionate, Brownie was a very good mother, often caring for her sister’s and aunt’s (CoCo) piglets while they rested or fed. the most needy.  Brownie contracted Brucellosis after her first litter and the disease took her from a healthy 125 pounds down to about 45 pounds. It also crippled her, twisting her back leg in a constant pained position. Brownie turned to us for help and we gave her a special place to eat and stay away from the other pigs who bullied her. She soon started to recover and went on to raise a second litter of piglets with her sister Piglet. Unfortunately Piglet was killed by a hunter which sent Brownie into severe grief and depression. It wasn’t until one of her piglets, Limpy, who was injured by an adult pig, started to look and act like Piglet that Brownie started to come around and become the caring mother once again.  Sadly, Limpy was also killed by hunters just this last winter. Brownie still suffers from horrible back and leg pain, and migraines so bad she just stops and stares for long periods of time.

Brownie helped us learn that feral hogs can laugh and they play jokes on each other. In the video below, Brownie found herself stuck under a sawhorse we had out for construction of our facility. Instead of helping her, her siblings openly giggled and laughed at her. We never knew a pig could laugh. It is hard to hear in the video but you can see the expression on Little Red’s face as he sees his sister looking goofy.

If you decide to Adopt Brownie or donate on her behalf, we will take your donation and use it to try to find a cure for her disease and give Brownie a better life.