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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Wesley Holmes & Chris Slater

Meet the morbidly obese pig who spent SEVEN years gorging on junk food in a Manchester flat

A pig kept as a house pet in a Manchester flat and allowed to gorge on junk food for seven years ballooned to nearly three times its healthy weight.

Portly Portia, who weighed a whopping 26 stone, was so overweight she could barely walk after being fed a diet of biscuits and coke say staff at the animal sanctuary where she was eventually taken.

She was also 'utterly depressed' and had 'given up on her life' due to her condition they said.

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