Outrage ensues as couple adopts rescue pig only to eat it weeks later
Animal lovers are up-in-arms over the adoption of a pot belly pig that ended in a pork meal.
CBC News reports that a local British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals branch adopted out 3-year-old pig Molly to a Vancouver island couple in January, thinking they were going to keep the animal as a pet for the remainder of its life.
Just weeks later, however, the BC SPCA reported feelings of shock and heartbreak after finding out that the animal had been slaughtered and eaten by her adopters, according to local law enforcement.
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"To hear that somebody did this to an animal that we worked so hard to make sure was healthy, and tried to get into a good home, is absolutely heartbreaking," explained Leon Davis, of British Columbia’s SPCA. "It takes a special type of person to adopt an animal from a rescue organization simply to take them home to kill them and eat them.”
The couple who adopted Molly says they had trouble training the pig.
They have since been blacklisted from BC SPCA’s database and will be unable to adopt in the future.
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