Pick Me Up! Special

This little piggy… PAINTS!

Leading a tiny, scared-looking pink piglet into my barn, I reached down to give her a stroke.

‘Don’t worry,’ I said. ‘You’re safe now.’

As she trotted around, taking in her new surroundings, I smiled.

I’d rescued the one-month-old sow to save her from being taken to an abattoir and slaughtered.

She’d been terrified and shaking, locked up in a cramped, concrete pen

But now, at Farm Sancturary in Franschhoek, in South Africa’s Western Cape, she was safe.

I’d kitted the place out for all my rescue animals, and she had free reig

I knew how clever

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