This little piggy stayed at home
..and grew to 20st after family adopted it
THIS beast was taken in by a family as a runaway piglet – and she has clearly grown on them.
Blossom now weighs 20st and is as big as the sofa she often slumps against. She was adopted by the Lemons as a baby when found wandering around their village three years ago.
Mum Millie said: “I have no idea how much she weighs, but I reckon it must be more than my husband, over 20 stone. She makes the garden look a bit like a battlefield.
“In the summer she comes and goes freely into the house, in the winter she mainly sleeps in an old cattle shed we have.
“She’s enormous. She’s as long as the Aga and as big as the sofa.”
Millie’s children James, 10, Douglas, nine, Georgina, seven, and five-year-old Sophie, clearly love Blossom judging by the way they cuddle up to her and use her as a foot rest while they’re on the settee.
She eats a children’s sandcastle bucket full of pig food twice a day but also enjoys treats from the kids.
It is thought Blossom was saved from a pig market before escaping a temporary home at 18 months.
Stud farm worker Millie, of Wilton, Wilts, adopted her – without discussing the move with husband David.
She said: “If I’d asked him whether we could have a pig in the house, he’d have said no. So I just did it. But he is very tolerant of her.”
He probably didn’t realise she would become sow big…