Dumped on a Rural Road, Rescued Piglets living ‘High On the Hog’ – Watch
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(left) when the piglets first arrived in 2022, and their current size – credit, Little Bitty Animal Shelter, Ranchita.
In 2022, when a scoundrel dumped about 150 captive-raised pigs onto the road in the countryside near San Diego, residents predicted most would die.
But many were rescued and NBC 7 recently caught up with 2 piglets and a sow now living ‘high on the hog’ at a local ranch where their ugly cuteness is helping to raise money for over 100 rescued animals just like them.
Today, Mesa, Grande and momma Wendi, can be found spending their days chowing down and wallowing in muck like any good pigs should, at the Little Bitty Animal Shelter, one of several local rescues that stepped up to help when the pigs were abandoned.
Neither the community members nor police ever learned who released all the pigs onto dangerous Mesa Grande road or why. Some didn’t make it, some went feral, but more than 50 were saved and taken into likely a much better life for them.
Every time we are out here and get to spend some time with them, see them, it is a good feeling, said Ryan Valverde, owner of Little Bitty Animal Shelter alongside his wife.
“If someone went through the process of dumping them off, then they probably weren’t in the best living conditions leading up to that.
Arriving at just two pounds, Mesa and Grande are around 25 times heavier now.
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