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 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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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. It was horrendous. I'd never seen an animal that fat. She could barely walk.

"She was utterly depressed. She's a very clever pig, and she was trapped in a horrible flat with just a yard, not even any mud.

"By the time we got her she'd given up on life. Sometimes she wouldn't even get out of her bed for 48 hours - just a hard, plastic dog bed, and the blankets in the bed were horrendous, just old curtains. It was a miserable existence.

"By that time she'd already lost the use of one leg because of the pure weight on her. She was very nearly completely lame. We got her just in time and put her a normal pig diet or pig pellets, and fruit and vegetables.

"At first she was still huge and struggling to get up, and we had to assist her every time. She was in pain and