A pet pig whose weight ballooned to a massive 26st on a diet of biscuits and cola is now half the sow she was thanks to a Wirral animal sanctuary.
Portly Portia was so overweight she could barely move when she was taken into Whitegate Animal Sanctuary in Hoylake last summer, after spending seven years gorging on junk food in a Manchester flat. Thanks to an improved, pig-friendly diet and plenty of exercise in a field of her own, she now weighs a trim 9st 4lbs - a healthy weight for a pot-bellied pig.
Whitegate Animal Sanctuary founder Laura Whelan said: "Portia came to us last summer. She was living in someone's flat in as a house pig, being fed junk food, biscuits and Coca-Cola. She was morbidly obese. It was horrendous. I'd never seen an animal that fat. She could barely walk.
