About Us | Snouts of Sedona

Meet the Team

Co-Founder/Director

Colleen Hinds

Colleen and Jason fell in love with their first pig over 25 years ago. Colleen, a retired professor, is devoted to helping piggies in any way she can. If there is a way to save them all she would. She spends much of her day coordinating to help rescue pigs in need CA and AZ. She loves snuggling with the herd.

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Co-founder/Director

Jason Hinds

Jason has cared for and loved pigs most of his life. His innovative Maintenance and building skills keep facility standards to par. In addition to pig duties around the sanctuary, since we began fundraising by selling on eBay, Jason spends much of his day posting new listings, packaging, and shipping now too.

Board Member

Sean Thomas

Started rescuing pigs all across the U.S. 7 years ago, starting with his 1st pig Oliver. Sean believes all potbelly pigs deserve a chance. He currently has 11 piggies living with him. Sean specializes in networking piggies all across the US.

Board Member

Laurie Green

Laurie loves bringing the latest in sound healing to the piggies. She is an EMT coordinator/director who loves hanging out with the herd, and helping rescue piggies.

FAQ's

Do you allow Visitors?

We are just a small backyard sanctuary out of our home in a residential neighborhood. So, at this time, we do not have the ability to have visitors or offer tours. We are still in search of a bigger property to help more piggies and offer educational tours in the future. So, stay tuned for when that happens.

Do you adopt your piggies at your sanctuary?

All of the piggies at our sanctuary have homes with us forever and, therefore, are not available for adoption.

Since we don't have more space to take in more piggies at our sanctuary, we network pigs in shelters, from neglect cases and owner surrenders. We try to find them homes and get them directly to safety when possible. We currently have piggies with friends providing foster care for them, who are in need of homes, and there are a ton at the shelters, whom we try to connect with homes.

If you can offer a loving home to a piggy, please click the adoption page above and fill out our application. We will work to connect you with the perfect match.

How Can I Help?

We need homes to keep helping piggies. If you would like to open your home to a needy piggy, please fill out our adoption application on the adoption tab above.

We would love sponsors for the piggies we care for at our sanctuary. If you would like to help us provide care for a loving piggy who has a forever home with us, food, and medical care, please click on the Sponsor-A-Snout tab above.

We need your help to keep rescuing and networking. It is very expensive to spay/neuter, provide emergency care, and transport piggies to safe homes. Please click on the donate button above it you can help contribute to our rescue work or our sanctuary.

Do you take in Owner Surrenders?

We are a tiny backyard sanctuary with 33 pigs, and as much as we want to help, we are not able to take in anymore piggies at this time. However, we are happy to share your post if your piggy needs a home, and we network to help piggies in shelters and neglect cases across CA and AZ. We would love to help in other states, but we just don't have the network and connections to make that happen.