I had contacted Lina and Joel off of craigslist and asked them what their best deal would be for their piglets. They told me they would sell them to me for $200. I bought 2 sisters so they could have each other to play with.
The pigs were suppose to be weened and house trained. Through email they had sent me pictures of the pigs that I would be purchasing. When they delivered the pigs to me, they were not the same pigs they brought me. The teeth had not been clipped and they had not been weaned or house trained. They hadn't had any training at all. They were just little wild pigs that smelt terrible because they had not been bathed or taken care of.
One pig looked healthy and normal, where as the 2nd pig was small and bony. The very night I took them home I watched them sleep. The thin one was having trouble breathing, wheezing, coughing and had the sniffles. I was completely inexperienced to the new animals. I didn't know that she was sick, I thought she had allergies and it would pass with some TLC from her new family.
With in a month, my baby pig had stopped eating and drinking, had lost significant weight, became weak and unactive, and then she died. When I contacted Lina and Joel about her death and the acknowledgement that they sold me a sick pig and asked for a refund. They completely ignored me.
They knew that I was inexperienced and they knew that I was an easy target to take advantage of, and they knew that they were selling me a sick pig. Where as I did not know that they were selling me a sick pig that was going to die on me, and certainly not with in a months time of trying to nurse her back to health.