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 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. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. The staff put her on a strict pig-friendly diet and made sure she got plenty of exercise in a field of her own and she now weighs a trim 9st 4lbs - a healthy weight for a pot-bellied pig, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Laura Whelan, founder at Whitegate Animal Sanctuary on the Wirral 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.