SCRAPS seeking vegetable donations to feed rescued pigs

If your Halloween pumpkins haven’t rotted already, they might make a good snack.

The Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service is asking for donations of vegetables such as pumpkins, cabbage, squash, apples and carrots to feed eight full-grown pigs rescued last week from a farm in Deer Park.

“If people are replacing their fall decorative pumpkins with Christmas holly, we’d like them to consider bringing them down to SCRAPS,” Nancy Hill, the agency’s executive director, said in a statement. “Please make sure they are still edible and we will take them to the pigs for feed.”

The pigs, along with dozens of other animals, were malnourished and living in filthy conditions at Dorothy Osgood’s farm on West Bridges Road, SCRAPS said. The other animals include six goats, nine chickens, 11 rabbits, 11 ducks and a goose.

SCRAPS said the pigs will be available for adoption soon. Prospective pig owners should leave their names and contact information at the SCRAPS front desk at 6815 E. Trent Ave. in Spokane Valley.