Couple Adopts 6 Giant Pigs, Rescues More

0:00Imagine starting with piggy jokes between you and your spouse, then boom, you're raising six massive pet pigs in your backyard. That's the wild reality for Emily McLeod and Dave Jennings, a couple from Kansas City Kansas. These pigs weigh over 100 pounds each, including Maxwell in a wheelchair from a spinal injury and Elvis hopping on three legs. They waddle through a doggie door into their home, a revamped old detention center lounging on sofas and by the wood stove. It all kicked off in 2018 when a friend surprised them with tiny poly, sold as a mini pig, but growing huge. Panicked, they hit up the Kansas City Pig Rescue Network and soon adopted more like starved survivors from the Buffalo 7 group. Now they've got poly, Gerald, Henry, Elvis, Maxwell, and Walter, all living large with treats in AC. That rescue group's placed over 600 pigs in forever homes since 2017, saving abused, abandoned, or lavary jacks. Volunteers like President Kayley Huck foster special cases from seizure prone amber to

1:04depressed pixie, teaching folks pigs are smarter and more emotional than dogs or cats, forming deep bonds on their terms. Owners often bail when pigs outgrow teacup lies or hit apartment bans, but the network vets adopters hard, stressing spay neuter to dodge messy behaviors. Please stay clean if you let them. Potty train easy and just need diet control to avoid obesity misbusted. Emily's chasing vet school with Walter riding shotgun, aiming to specialize in pig care, while Dave and her say it's a crazy but perfect fit, proving. These resilient oinkers bring unmatched loyalty and love to the right home. Kansas News Today, powered by AI bringing you what matters, I'm Cory with the story.