The little pig saw the light in Los Angeles, in the backyard of a shop selling Mexican food. Maybe Sophie was going to be a taco, but she was lucky. The owner of the store invited one of the customers to look at the pigletsthat hispig gavve birthto.
The woman’s heart melted at the sight of eight pink crumbs, and she wanted to take them all. But the store owner agreed to part with only the weakest and sickest pig – little Sophie was half the size of her brothers and sisters, and she was almost pecked by chickens.
The rescuer took the five-day-old piglet home. All night she warmed and tried to feed the baby.
She turned to a charitable foundation, which turned to a shelter farm, and they turned to Kittenn LadyHannah shaw, the owner of the kitten shelter. Volunteers reasoned that if she nursed newborn cats, she could help the piglet. But the shelter was three hours away from the piglet’s new owner. Then Hannah’s sister volunteered to help: she dropped everything and rushed after Sophie in a car.
Hanna spent a day getting Sophie out of the world, and then another day at the veterinary clinic, watching the pig slowly get better.
After hospital procedures, Sophie had a stitch on her throat. She takes good painkillers, she is fed and cared for. On the eighth day of life, the pig no longer needed to be fed through a tube and had no more seizures.
Hannah’s black cat named Koko littered the piglet. The cat loves to sit with Sophie and look after her while she eats or rests. But as soon as Sophie starts to move or grunt loudly… Watch out! Coco was never here.
