 Hello everyone! So after a sad day over there in Spalding for the pig vigil, we've come here to pigs in the wood sanctuary here in Huddersfield. It's a beautiful place situated here in the woods out here in Huddersfield and we've come here to meet the staff, look at the sanctuary and of course meet the pigs. Let's do it! Hello! How are you? Great to meet you. This is beautiful. Yeah, here we are. This is pigs in the wood. Wow. Pigs are all over the wood. The pigs? How many pigs do you have here? At the moment we have 20. Okay, cool. Permanent residents but we also re-home other pigs. Well let's go and walk through and see if we can meet some pigs. Okay, I'll take you this way. Let's go this way. Just grab some food as a temptation for us. Just bread. We try not to give them too much bread. It's not really healthy for them. Okay. Just a treat then. We tend to go for sweet things. Like we all do. All these amazing volunteers. They'll just help out in their own time. Nice. Who's this in here? Come on, wake up. Wakey, wakey. Good morning, grumpy bums. This is bretta. We've just disturbed this but I don't think she'll mind for a piece of bread. Oh, bretta is being bribed with a piece of bread. They have lots of fruits and vegetables, don't they? Yeah. Yeah, they're quite fussy actually with what they eat. Yeah. We don't realise how fussy they are but they don't like anything dark green. Oh really? So they hate sprouts. Hello, bretta. How are you? Gretta, did you say hello? Yes, hello. Would you like to give us some bread? Gretta, here. Look what I've got for you. Here you go. Oh dear, that's only a treat for you. Otherwise you get two trouble-wubs. That's right. I think you've had enough. And it's enough bread for you today. We've actually got a pig who's gluten intolerant. Oh really? So he can't have bread but he does try to pinch it when he can. That's little George who you might see. Oh, Gretta, you're just the cutest. Come on, Gretta. As I say, they're round the wood collecting acorns. All right, acorns, they love acorns? Well, they love them too much. They become addicted to them. They give them like a buzz. Yeah. Are you getting high off acorns, Gretta? They're naughty. Pig that was stoned for two days. Oh wow. He just lay on his back with his legs up in the air and he just couldn't move. Wilba. Wilba. Stoned piggy off the acorns. Yeah. Okay, so in here we have Mabel and Jingle and Bella. Yeah. So she's a mangalitzer. They were nearly extinct in 1990. So the grunting helps the milk. The grunting helps the milk flow. I didn't know that. Mabel's crib is just on point. That's the best pig crib I've ever seen. That's a pig yawn. Hello, beautiful. Hello, Mum. Hello, Mabel. We've got fuzzy little wuzzies. Hello, my Lord. Can I feed the baby? Hello, baby. Oh dear. Come here, little baby. Yeah. Oh, they are sharp. You've got to be careful to take my bloody finger off. Oh dear. Here you go. Here you go. Just on the floor then. I don't want to lose my finger. Here you go. Here you go. Oh, God. How does she do it, those little nippers on her? Oh my God. How do you feed these babies? And it took my little finger off. Your little buddy pants. And she was going to be given away as a breeding pig, so she had been removed from her piglets. Ah, so they would have been taken away from her, but now she gets to stay with their piglets. It's a happy mum. Yep. Because in the farrowing sheds, they just breed them and take the piglets away constantly and keep them in those crates. They just don't consider, you know, the maternal bond of the, yeah. They don't care. They don't care, no. They care about the money, that's it. Happy mum and happy babies. Yeah. So it should be. Yeah. You're my favourite animal ever. Look at you. Here, your little face. Scratchy scratchies. You like belly scratch? Oh. You want a belly scratch? Come on. Come here. Here you go. It's okay. Don't be shy. Give me a belly scratch. There you go. Oh, dear. Come look at your face. You like a little belly scratch, darling? Oh, yes. You are so beautiful. Yes, you are so beautiful. Don't be shy. Do you ever feel a bit down? Come to pigs in the woods, meet the piglets, and you're going to feel much better. We went to the slaughterhouse the other day, so went to a spaulding animal saving the gas chamber there in spaulding. So we just come here for... Yeah, we get a lot of vegan groups come to see the kind of the positive side of it. Some are just mentally exhausted, you know, from what they see constantly. I mean, I've had school kids and I've talked to them about the story of the pigs and the fact that, you know, some don't live longer than six months in the best way. When I explained to them, they've all burst out, you know, crying, tears, really upset. But then, you know, something that they don't know or understand or is hidden from them. And I think, you know, the next generation hopefully will be more open-minded about what's going on. I think we can make a difference now. I think if we... like, sanctuaries can help change the way people view the animals, you know, like, but I think people just view pigs as are, you know, they're just food or they see them as... They just see bacon, they don't actually see the pig and then when they see the pig, they look they look down on them with a bit of contempt. But when you bring them to a sanctuary and they have individual names and stories and, you know, then they can start viewing animals as beings worthy of respect. It does resonate for people, you know, they make that connection and they think about it, you know, all pigs are the same. You know, you can't differentiate between a pig that goes to... people do that, though. They kind of put them in different categories. Categories, so it's okay because that's a breeding pig, but this is a pet pig. But they all have the same feelings, you know, and at the end of the day, breeders, whether it's organic, they still have to go through that horrendous experience. You know, organic pigs are going to be gashed, chambered or, you know, electrically prodded and murdered and they matter. And I even go as far as to say to people, like, there's, like when they have these companion animals at home, like dogs and cats and, like, inherently the way they feel pain and want to live and they feel love and all these joy and all these things, there's no different to a pig does and, you know, yeah. George! George! Oh, George is gluten intolerant. Hey George! We're just going to go meet George, like up close and personal. Hey, Georgie! Hey, buddy! How you going? How are you? Oh, you're giving him a little sniff. You want a little scratch? George needs gluten-free bread. He's eating acorns. George, you're an acorn addict. Do you want to talk about it? That's got 8-8 meetings. Acorn's anonymous. He's probably more interested in acorns than a belly scratch. Yes. So there's Kate up there. We've got a slow version of Kate shaking, so it's a bit like a Pamela Anderson scene when she comes out of the water. Oh, excellent. Mud flashing everywhere, so I'll route that. This is going to be a good video. She was actually part exchanged for a car by a car dealer and a farmer. Oh, really? Bartering. But the car dealer just fed them on bread, and so the baby pig had a stroke. He became too attached to Kate, but he couldn't admit it. Oh, really? He couldn't say it was because he became too attached to a pig. So he started to get emotional connection with Kate and he couldn't eat her? Yeah. And he said it was because she was a nuisance. Oh, I know. Yeah. He's trying to do the old defense mechanism strategy. He's trying. Yeah. He's possibly become emotionally attached to a pig. It's not a manly enough or it's not farmer enough. That's right. Kate, you're beautiful. So she's still addicted to bread. We have to wean her off it, so this is a rare treat. Kate, we've got to wean you off. I can't emphasize that. Kate, we know your problems with bread. Yeah. Probably acorns as well now. She's quite a nice girl. Be careful. She's strong. She can step. She's a nice headbutt. Okay. Sometimes. I've had a headbutt or two of my time. Don't worry about that. She turns what mood she's in. I think some of the trolls on my channel might like to see me get headbutted by a pig. They might like that. Not today, guys. Kate, are you my friend? Okay, look at this belly. Oh my, there's a lot of area to cover here with this belly. Look at that. Oh, yes. Oh, what's going on under here? I've been told I give the best belly rubs in all of England. That's what all the pigs tell me. Kate's just chilling, getting the belly rubs out here in the woods. This is a life, hey, Kate? So the reason you don't see pigs getting this size, unless like a sow, a sow breeding sow might get close, is because they're all killed at about six months old, six to seven months old. And most of the pigs here in England and in Wales are killed in gas chambers. And I think you guys have know about gas chambers. By now, I've talked about them throughout my years on YouTube. And yeah, sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned that around, Kate. She got a bit uncomfortable then, eh? It's okay, darling. Not you, though, but yeah. It's okay, sweetie. She's fully grown now. And another point is that these industry, you could blame the industry, but the only reason this industry exists is because of they're just meeting the demand. So the consumer has a responsibility of what they're paying for here, you know? So you're paying for these animals to be mass exploited on mass and to be executed for you, just so you can have a five minute sandwich. And these are beings that are complex, intelligent, caring, they care for their children like you saw before, and they're being treated like objects. When they're not objects, they're just sentient animals, conscious animals that want to live at pigs in the wood. These type of pigs here have the favourite face of all the pigs for me. That face is just too much for me to handle. Look at your face. Hello. Oh, gee. I don't, you want, do you want a little piece of bread? What's this? What's this? Florence? Florence, what's this? Oh, I'm on your new friend immediately. Look at this. Wow, this is your events area. Yeah. You've even got a stage here. Yeah. What happens on that stage? Well, it's when we have a pig gig and we have fans once a year. You've got a pig gig. I like the pig gig. So this year we managed to organise it along with COVID restrictions, so we had to put all that in place. Did you get any photos of the pig gig? Yeah, we've got loads. So there's a pig party. The pigs were invited. No, the pigs invited the humans to the party. Yeah, they hosted it. They had the treats as well. I wish all the pigs had a pig party in this beautiful heaven. It's just so sad. It's really heartwarming, but it's also really sad knowing the contrast because it's such to another extreme of horror and that's actually the reality for the vast, vast, vast majority of pigs on earth. They are just seeing nothing as, they're just seeing as, I don't know, objects and it's horrible, but these pigs are in like piggy paradise. Yeah, it's just they're all about everywhere. I don't know who this is over here. Louise. Is this Louise? So they're really used to people if you had them since piglets here. Hey Louise, how are you? Am I allowed to give Louise a little snack? Louise, look what I've got. I've come all the way from Australia to give you this bit of Australian bread. Here you go, mate. Here you go. Here you go. There you go. Oh, dear. Look at that face. Is that, is that yummy? Do you give me a little sniff kiss? Give me a little sniffing kiss. So all brothers and sisters were killed. What for? The meat industry? Yeah, we're taken off and we managed to get her and her mom and her sister as well because they were actually advertised as surplus to requirement. Okay. Because it was the end of the season on the leisure farm and so people could just come and take them. So we raced down there because we knew that farmers would take the opportunity to get some free pigs and unfortunately seven of them had already gone. Oh dear. When I tell this story to school children, they get really upset. Yes. They want to know what happened to the piglets and so I carefully explained that to them and they were hugging her and they were saying we're sorry. Lost the whole family. It really did affect them. All the ways. Yeah. But that's reality, isn't it? Unfortunately. It doesn't have to be reality though. So we can all, we can all make a difference here but it starts with what you put in your mouth. Someone's dropped the nuts. By accident? Yeah. Because he's this. Is this Greta? Greta, what have you got here? You hit the jackpot? Yeah. Yeah, because you can tell. Look, there's a trail. It's just stopped, it dropped there and they started walking, kept walking, didn't notice it. I mean, I would stay in one of these porches. They look, they look mighty comfy with all that straw in there. Just give me a bowl of oats in one of those piggy bowls every morning. A couple of peanuts. I'll be sorted. We'll get some bread for you, Wilbur. Look at your face. Look at her smile. Hello, darling. Oh, look at you. And also, what about people who say that pigs, really dirty animals and they poo all over themselves and all that? That's not true. Do they ever poo in their house? They never make a mess in their house. They don't we all poo in their house. They'll find an area like a toilet where they go to. But in their factories, they are defecating where they, because they can't move. So people just get this idea that pigs just defecate on themselves and... I think that's where the rumours come from. I think a lot of time people just want to believe that because it justifies what they do, that they're dirty animals. It's almost a really big admirer of yours. Oh, really? I've heard it. I'm an admirer of yours too. I heard that you're... I heard that you do a lot for the animals here. Yeah, yeah. How long have you been working here for? About 11 months now. Wow. And do you really like it? What's your favourite story about your experience here with the animals? Come on, there's got to be one that that. Out for grab, which we're running around in circles taking everyone down a bit. Why? Because you didn't want to go with the vet. They're very scared when we see the vet coming. They're so smart. Yeah. Yeah, we accept everyone here. That's beautiful. Everyone's welcome here. And we try to show the pigs loving naturally and what they are, the characters, and we get loads and loads of positive responses. Yeah. And you get the odd people saying, I bet they're good in a bacon sandwich, et cetera. But by the time they've been round and they've looked and cuddled and tickled the pigs, do you know what? Start to break through. As long as they've got that goal to work towards and they know that while they're continuing to consume these products, they're paying for this horror story to happen and they've got to work towards that goal. Yeah. And when they come here and they make that association that actually that's my pork chop or that's my bacon butty. Yeah, they are. Yeah, they are. Once they see the who instead of the what. And it starts that message all of a sudden. I can guarantee you can almost see that penny drop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like if you convinced every five people here to be a vegan or reduce or have vegan days, then how many animals are you saving? Exactly. Exactly. You know, it just sped up. It's true, yeah. Yeah, so just you having this place here, you know, you're having like this little impact on the people around here. So it's always got to do something. I don't want to be standing up. What's your proudest achievement here? Because I heard that you've done a lot of the infrastructure here. What is your proudest achievement here? My proudest is coming to work here every day and making a difference. I think when you can make a difference, when you can make a difference and make a positive difference, it makes you feel good inside. Yeah. You know, I think if you've got a choice to be kind or cruel, people choose kindness. Choose kindness. Makes you feel better, doesn't it? Oh, God, yeah. So it's actually like a circular thing where you're giving it, you're giving out and you're getting back at the same time. Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's nothing better than early mornings working at the top of the woods. Yeah. And you hear Harry grunt at the back of you. Yeah. And initially, there's a little bit of anxiousness because you realize you've left a dog biscuit in your pocket. Yeah, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the first time I've got nipped by Harry. Yeah, he's after the dog biscuit. Oh, cute. So cute. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for doing all your hard work here. I mean, it's beautiful gift that you're giving your time and your energy and work. Do you join the team? All in the team. Do you take volunteers? Yeah, we take volunteers. Yeah, we're always in need of volunteers. Okay. Generally, we do two shifts a day. Okay. So they get fed in the morning and afternoon. Yeah. So we try to get three volunteers on at a time and then we can spread the jobs out. Oh, wow. So if you had more volunteers, you could spread the shifts out more liberally and you know. Yeah, that's right. So there you go. So if anyone wants to come volunteer, you can reach out to pigs in the woods. That's right, yeah. We're always looking for new volunteers. The links will all be down below. So you can reach out and say, hey, I'm interested in volunteering and see what happens. But very therapeutic being out here in the woods and seeing all the amazing animals. And if you love animals and you think you want to be part of helping animals, this is a good place to start, yeah? Definitely. All right. So that was a lovely day out here in Pigs in the Wood. I met all the beautiful animals and the beautiful volunteers and founders here. Volunteers are needed. So I'll leave the links down below for that. If you want to chip in one quid, two quid, 10 quid, 50 quid, let's get it done. It goes to the pigs and the infrastructure here. And yeah, it's going to a good place.