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Pig welfareTraveler review · #27

Pigs kept in cages and brought out for tourist photos, visitor says

Rose Island · Added 2026-09-20

Pigs kept in cages and brought out for tourist photos, visitor says An April 2025 visitor was upset by the way pigs were handled at Sand Dollar Beach. The review describes animals being released from cages in turns, prodded with an object and guided to food in the water before being put back. The guest also says a piglet was passed between tourists for photographs. These are the reviewer’s observations and welfare concerns, not an official animal-welfare inspection. Source: TripAdvisor review “Terrible, sad, ugly,” April 15, 2025.

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Pigs kept in cages and brought out for tourist photos, visitor says

An April 2025 visitor was upset by the way pigs were handled at Sand Dollar Beach. The review describes animals being released from cages in turns, prodded with an object and guided to food in the water before being put back. The guest also says a piglet was passed between tourists for photographs. These are the reviewer’s observations and welfare concerns, not an official animal-welfare inspection.

Source: TripAdvisor review “Terrible, sad, ugly,” April 15, 2025.

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Sand Dollar Beach Resort
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https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g147416-d27729689-r1002459471-Sand_Dollar_Beach_Resort-Nassau_New_Providence_Island_Bahamas.html

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Water & public healthTraveler review · #11

Cloudy water, nipping pigs and rough stingray handling at Great Stirrup Cay

Great Stirrup Cay / Berry Islands · Added 2026-09-14

Cloudy water, nipping pigs and rough stingray handling at Great Stirrup Cay “The pigs will also nip at you if you’ve got food (which they give you to feed them).” The visitor describes seeing a pig with diarrhea, cloudy water and staff collecting waste. At the stingray stop, they say guides held the animals at the surface for paid photos and restrained them when they struggled. They also say personal photos and videos were restricted. These are the visitor’s observations from the original Reddit post, not water-test results or a confirmed infection. Source: Reddit public post.

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Cloudy water, nipping pigs and rough stingray handling at Great Stirrup Cay

“The pigs will also nip at you if you’ve got food (which they give you to feed them).”

The visitor describes seeing a pig with diarrhea, cloudy water and staff collecting waste. At the stingray stop, they say guides held the animals at the surface for paid photos and restrained them when they struggled. They also say personal photos and videos were restricted. These are the visitor’s observations from the original Reddit post, not water-test results or a confirmed infection.

Source: Reddit public post.

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Great Stirrup Cay Swimming with Pigs and Stingray City excursion
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https://www.reddit.com/r/NCL/comments/1ls90ox/great_stirrup_cay_swimming_with_pigs_stingray/

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