Autumn Acres Mini Pet Pigs

Episode: 21 / September 20, 2022

Monique’s Experience with a Pet Pig Named Pickles

My name is Monique Sauceda and I am 38 years old. My husband, Carlos, and I have 2 girls, Natalia (12), and Ariella (19) and are from Stockton, CA. We have been together for 22 years and we are learning so much about pigs in just the last 3/4 months. I am currently in school for my Master’s of Social Work and work full time so it’s definitely a family affair to keep up on household chores and Pickles. Getting Pickles in October 2020 was a family decision and we have definitely been learning as we’re going. We have only ever owned cats and dogs and I have never lived on a farm or owned any kind of livestock animals, so we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. I came across your podcast when Nikki from Hold Onto Your Hooves came to trim Pickles’ hooves. It has taught us how to better care for Pickles and how to better manage her “behaviors.” It wasn’t until your IG and podcast that I came across other pig pages that has only furthered our pig knowledge. We were riding blind for almost 18 months with Pickles until we really started to understand her. I look forward to sharing all that has happened since Pickles has come to our family.

In this episode of the Pet Pig Podcast we will be talking to Monique. Monique’s love for pigs started as a child. When she was about 8 or 9 years old Monique’s father took her to a pet store, every week for a couple months, so she could visit the pot belly pig there named Pudgy. Eventually Monique was able to get a pig. Her husband and daughter got her a pig in October of 2020. She had not done any research before owning a pig so she had quite a bit to figure out once she got her pig Pickles.

Monique tells us about how hard it was to figure out where to start researching because the information she received from her breeder was not accurate or truthful. They found some YouTube videos but those also did not give much information on how to care for Pickles. They had to figure out very quickly how to care for Pickles because they realized how little they were prepared for her. She tells us a few challenges they had with Pickles while they were learning how to care for her properly.

Key Takeaway: Research, research, research. Do as much research as you can. Do not just impulse buy a pig. There is a lot to owning a pig so never assume that they are like a dog.

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