Cutest thing ever. EVER.

Baby pigs at Farm Sanctuary in New York.

These babies were born to a sow who was rescued from the Iowa floods. Read about the rescue here.

The staff and volunteers at Farm Sanctuary had to be with these babies 24 hours a day to monitor their health and make sure their mother didn't squash em. The mother lived her life in a gestation crate which means she never had the luxury of rolling over or figuring out how to maneuver around her babies without crushing them. This also means she was never able to demonstrate her mothering instincts which all animals are born with and so she lost the basic ability to mother properly. The Farm Sanctuary folks were up day and night taking turns on pig duty.

The babies are marked with different colors so the caregivers can tell them apart. This is essential because the babies were born underweight and needed to be weighed three times a day so as to make sure they were gaining weight and getting healthier. It was funny to watch Jason look at his chart and try and figure out which piglet was "silver spot blue bottom."

Outside of these special, separate, pig barns were the general population of pigs as well as another sow rescued from the flood. Her babies were born on a levee during the flood. Somehow this mother got out of her gestation crate, found high ground, built a nest, and birthed these babies. They were much bigger and outside running around in a little pack after mom. The FA staff thought she was a young mother and that this was probably her first litter because she was a great mother right away. The older mothers, who had had multiple litters while in gestation crates had the mothering instinct taken out of them, but this one was on the ball right away.