A “depressed” and “obese” pig has been rescued from a flat in Manchester after being fed biscuits, cola and junk food for seven years. Portia the pot-bellied pig was severely overweight when she was rescued, having reached a staggering 26 stones (165
Police in Wisconsin lured a 300-pound potbellied pig, named Albert, with fruit snacks who was found wandering loose through a neighborhood. The Green Bay Police Department shared the tale on their Facebook page that Albert’s “big city adventure took place on a
Ian Falconer, a wide-ranging artist best known for his picture books about the adventures and antics of Olivia, a bossy, brassy piglet who charmed her way into bestsellerdom, becoming one of the most popular characters in modern children’s literature, died March 7
An Italian soccer club received a delivery in the mail that included a severed pig’s head and a threatening letter. Sampdoria, a team in Italy’s Serie A, received the package that was delivered in a box to club headquarters this week from
A butcher was killed by one of his pigs after it lashed out at him just after he had stunned it in an abattoir. The 61-year-old suffered a wound from a 15-inch meat cleaver after the pig knocked him to the ground
A toddler had a lucky escape when a knife fell out of a Peppa Pig toy she was opening as a present on Christmas Day. Maggie, two, almost put the rusty retractable knife in her mouth after she unwrapped the campervan toy. The tot’s
In an effort to ease the nation’s organ shortage, scientists are transforming pig livers to look and act like human ones. Workers in a suburban Minneapolis lab dissolve pig cells that made the organ function, leaving ghostly semitranslucent scaffolds floating in large