Talking Animals: Founder of Rooterville discusses history of the sanctuary and how she went about reinventing it

Talking Animals: Founder of Rooterville discusses history of the sanctuary and how she went about reinventing it

Elaine West–the founder of Rooterville Animal Sanctuary, a refuge housing rescued farm animals she launched in Melrose, Florida, more than two decades ago—explains the origin of her lifelong love of pigs. West pinpoints a particular pig that a local Humane Society was about to send home with “adopters” she felt certain were planning to eat the animal, so she intervened and rescued the pig…a pivotal episode that effectively spawned Rooterville. S…