Hindustan Times (Delhi)

Meet Missy, who survived butcher, fled from home and got new family

- Associated Press letters@hindustant­imes.com

STRATHAM,NEWHAMPSHI­RE: A pot-bellied pig that survived a butcher and an escape from an adoptive home is getting a new family.

The three-year-old pig named Missy first arrived at the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in February.

Missy’s family could reportedly no longer take care of her, and she had even ended up with a butcher at some point.

In April, a Massachuse­tts family with other pigs adopted her, but the adoption didn’t work out and she ran away. She returned to the Stratham shelter after a week.

The shelter’s adoption counselor said on Tuesday that a New Jersey family with two pigs saw an online posting for her through a site called the Pig Placement Network.

They adopted her last week.

The counselor told them, “You’ve made my year!”

 ?? FB/NEW HAMPSHIRE SPCA ?? The threeyearo­ld potbellied pig Missy.
FB/NEW HAMPSHIRE SPCA The threeyearo­ld potbellied pig Missy.

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