Some simply call it “Arizona’s pig issue” and say it is really finding worse.

According to the Arizona Section of Agriculture, a lot of people who are selecting to get pigs as animals aren’t executing the necessary analysis to figure out particularly what it needs to effectively treatment for a pig. The final result: men and women providing their pigs away or permitting loose with nowhere to go.

And that signifies much more work for one particular of our nation’s most significant pig rescues, found in Marana.

The snorting, the snoozing, the snouts — pretty typical between the “inhabitants” at the Ironwood Pig Sanctuary. They’re happier than — well, we’d normally complete that line by declaring “a pig in mud” — but for several of the pigs below, this is no swine soiree. In reality, this is their past shot at a hopeful foreseeable future.