George
(the original “flyer”)
Sweet George came to the Sanctuary after living with a few families. The parents of his first family got divorced. George’s second family quickly realized they really weren’t set up to keep a potbelly pig either, so they started looking for a new home with no luck. They came to Amy for help.
Amy had an idea! While Lemon Lane Farm did not need another pig (because sometimes one pig doesn’t like the other pig), she knew another family that had been wanting a pig! So…Amy decided to go meet George in-person to make sure he was a good little piggie before she recommended the other family add him to their family.
Something really special happened when Amy met George! There was a look in George’s eye
that gave Amy have an instant connection - and he seemed to be asking Amy to help him find a new home. But before she knew it, George laid down for a belly rub right at Amy’s feet! (George’s current family had never given him a belly rub AND they didn’t even know he liked belly rubs!) Soon, it was time for Amy to go home. As she walked along the fence back to her car, George followed Amy as far as he could and looked up at her as to say “please come back and get me.”
It turned out that the family that was going to adopt George couldn’t build a barn right away, so Amy decided to keep George until he had a nice new barn. The next day, George’s current family was driving him to the Sanctuary when all of a sudden George jumped out of the truck that was going 60mph!
Amy’s phone rang. It was the family calling to tell Amy what George had done! Amy said, please bring him here to Lemon Lane and I will call the vet. Both George and the vet got to the farm at the same time! The vet helped George get to the animal hospital. Amy visited George as often as she could.
After several weeks of healing, George was able to return to the Sanctuary. He knew Amy very well by then because she had visited him so often. Once George got to the farm at Lemon Lane, he knew he had found his forever home. Sure, Herbie and George are grouchy with each other sometimes, but over all, they are the happiest piggies in Grandview, Tennessee!