IT was a tale of forbidden romance, or perhaps just a bit of filthy frolicking.
Either way, when lusty male pig Willy-Joel broke into the quarters of fertile female Charli at the Sugarshine Feminist Animal Rescue Mission in Wyrallah, it was a match made in piggy heaven.
Willy had managed to contravene the strict rule of celibacy imposed on all animals at the farm.
The window of opportunity afforded to this lothario was just four days – the time between him getting dropped off at the farm one night, and the vet arriving to desex him.
“We were in denial (about the pregnancy) to start with but one day we noticed she was getting quite a bit bigger,” Sugarshine founder Kelly Nelder said.
Three months, three weeks, and three days later, 11 beautiful piglets were born – all in good health.
Despite the pregnancy hiccup, the three women who run Sugarshine took it all in their stride in what is a labour of love.
Read the full story at The Northern Star, 15 August 2015
Photo: Marc Stapelberg