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Article: Oink Inc.(Mike Woltmon and pig farm) (company profile)
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- Hawaii Business
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- July 1, 1988
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Oink Inc.
When these little piggies go to market, they fetch a premium price for their high-technology owners. BY MARK DOUGHERTY
ON MAY 20, 1983 veterinarian Mike Woltmon was doing routine dental work on a horse, when it reared up, knocked him down and fell on top of him. At the time, Woltmon thought he had simply bruised his back. But a trip to to the doctor's resulted in a distressing prognosis: he had ruptured a disk and was ordered not to lift animals anymore at his Kauai Veterinary Clinic, a facility he had started in 1978. Consequently, he turned over his clinic's operations to his wife, Joanne, who is also a veterinarian. "I needed another ...