On a farm near Washington, Albert (the runty little piglet right) has been saved from the fate of most pigs by a kind man who loved the idea that Albert was a hairy Kunekune pig. They are apparently native to New Zealand. His brothers and sisters were sold off to barbaric people planning dinner but Albert was too small for their plans. He survived and was taken home where he is living the life of Albert. Near Birtle, Manitoba, well north of Winnipeg, Brenda Marshall-Wilson (above) is the latest good soul to find and adopt a piglet found shivering in the minus 30 weather on the highway. She was driving to work near the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border when she saw this little guy. “I look in front of the car and there’s this little pig, like almost dancing around in front of me with its nose towards me,” she told the BC. When she got out to examine the piglet, Marshall-Wilson said it was shivering and looked to be about two weeks old. Having worked in a pig barn before, she knew to get down low and “talk” to the piglet just like a mother pig would do. The pig slowly crept up to his new momma and the rest is pig history. And the Siberian Times reports that firefighters were able to rescue some 150 piglets from a barn fire near Tomsk City. Sadly their fate is more likely to be the Russian barbecue than anything else.
