- Name: Fawnie
- Species: Feral Hog
- Born: Spring 2024
- Weight: 100 lbs
- Sex: Female
- Special Needs: NA.
- Personality: Always running everywhere. A great mother.
- Favorite Food: Corn
- Family: Fat Mama (mother). Fawnette (daughter). Little Buck (son), Little Man (son) (Gimpy’s Orphan)
- Likes: Running and being a mother.
- Dislikes: Dogs.
- Needs: Brucellosis cure and contraception.
WE THOUGHT FAWNIE WAS DECEASED!! SHE IS VERY MUCH ALIVE! SEE VIDEO BELOW!
In March 2026, Fawnie came to our facility critically ill and dropped off her piglets for us to care for them. Then, after spending a horrific night spitting up blood and writhing in painful spasms, she left and was not seen again. Assuming she had succumbed to her disease, we never expected to see her again and had her listed as deceased. But on Sunday night, 26 July, 2026, we were surprised to see a gaunt but very much alive (and pregnant) Fawnie visiting one of our feeders. She must have survived her bout with brucellosis and spent the last four months recovering.
Fawnie was a beautiful pig. She had a perfect deer brown coloration with white legs, belly and tail. She looked every bit like a white tailed deer. Because she loved to run everywhere and with her coloration, we named her Fawnie. Fawnie loved being a mother, although she kept her distance form the human researchers, she would allow her piglets come for treats under her watchful eye.
Fawnie contracted Brucellosis and in March 2026 brought her new litter of pigs to the facility after the normal 2 weeks of nursing and training at their birth site. It was evident to us that Fawnie was gravely ill. She could barely stand and was coughing up blood. To our astonishment, Fawnie went into the garage area and laid down inside our tool shed. Our pigs would never do that as it resembles a trap which they have experienced. It was clear to us that Fawnie had come back to our facility to bring her babies to be cared for so she could die. She survived that night and left without her piglets. Fat Mama, Fawnie’s mother, who had a litter of pigs of her own, and Brownie took in Fawnie’s piglets. But when the hunters captured and castrated Gimpy, Fawnie’s young male, Little Man was separated from the group and orphaned with Little Sister and Big Sis.
It is surprising to us and a little humbling that so many of the pigs have come back to our facility when ill or to die, as if this is one of their favorite places where they felt the safest and most secure. Without a doubt, we are pleased that Fawnie has survived and come back to the facility.
If you decide to donate in support of Fawnie, we will take your donation and use it to try to find a cure for her disease and also help Gimpy give her piglet Little Man a better life.