Pig Willi
It became a vacation without way-back ticket
From the perspective of Gut Aiderbichl
(written by Gisela Pschenitschnig)
Three-year-old Willi was left with an elderly lady for a week or two, but never picked up again. The owner simply did not get in touch anymore.
Thus, the mini pot-bellied pig Willi lived together with the chickens, which was unacceptable from an epidemic protection point of view. The veterinary office threatened to slaughter Willi and set a specific deadline and thus the possibility of housing Willi in a species-appropriate manner. If this had not succeeded, Willi's final destination would have been the slaughterhouse.
Willi's lifesavers have been Aiderbichler for 10 years
(...) since we have been Aiderbichler for 10 years and want to save animals .... I ask you for help for Willi. He is very sweet and tame (...)
Here people have understood:
As long as we have to protect the animals from us, we have achieved nothing. Only when we no longer have to protect animals will we have reached our goal, then we will have changed something: Us".
Willi's young life was saved by the prudence of the family, who put the Aiderbichler idea of animal welfare into practice through their actions.
Responsibility - Morality - "Will - Have" - Society
According to the Animal Welfare Act, pet owners are obliged to take responsibility for their animal by caring for, feeding and housing it appropriately (cf. TierSchG, § 2).
Pigs, whether large domestic pigs or mini pot-bellied pigs, exert a certain fascination on people. Pigs quickly develop "intellectual" contact with humans. They recognize us by our voice, feel joy for their human friend, pigs recognize us by our smell, how we walk and they talk to humans with their many loud and soft "oink" sounds. Pigs are as intelligent as the great ape and man. They are persistent and they achieve their goal whatever they set out to do.
If I have a garden, I buy a pig. It can live in a small wooden hut. Are people aware that pigs do not want to live alone, that they are highly socialized creatures? Are people who buy a small piglet for the garden aware that the adorable little piglet will grow into a full-grown pig that will also dig up the garden to wallow? You can walk a mini pot-bellied pig on a dog leash, what do you do when the pig is fully grown?
Animals impress us in nature films with their survival skills, as art figures and actors on television. They are often rather alien to us in their own natural behaviors and expressions, in their intelligence, their species-typical and individual needs.
The "will - have" society and the fulfillment of dreams
As in the clothing industry, there are also fashion trends in the animal world. Man wants a pug - do not think about the torture breeding, man wants a donkey - do not think that he will call all day from loneliness "iah", man wants a pony in the garden - it will be boring, man wants chickens and a rooster in the garden - the rooster must go away because he crows loudly. The list of such wishes would be long. We want to have and we buy - but often the thought is not finished.
Willi was supposed to get shelter for a few days with an animal-loving lady and her chickens - from the beginning the previous owners never thought of picking Willi up again. At best Willi was lucky that he was not abandoned in a forest somewhere.
Animals, plants, ecosystems, species or nature as a whole are accorded their own moral status in the discussion of animal and environmental ethics. Accordingly, humans have direct duties towards animals and nature and not merely duties towards other humans.
Willi is one of the many deported, abandoned "will - have" animals. He has settled in perfectly at his new home farm Gut Aiderbichl Iffeldorf. Lots of pigs were happy when Willi ran off the transporter. - We wish Willi all the best for his future life as a pig.
Sincerely, your Gisela
