They get big. I don't know about the females but the males get huge. I joke and say that they are about the size of a volkswagen, but from pictures I have seen of ones that have been killed, they are very big. I would research more, but when I search feral hogs on the internet, I find pics of dead ones hung up to trees and dogs attacking them, and I find that disturbing. At least, it is something I don't want to see. I will keep updating her progress as she grows. She is very funny and playful. She likes to take an old tee shirt and drag it around. She likes for me to use it like a bullfighter cape and she runs through it. Today I went in the house, wearing sweats, and came out wearing jeans, and she was startled and didn't recognize me and ran away, but came back when I called her. She's a lot of fun.

She's doing pretty good. She has the whole pen to herself, having evicted the chicken and the duck. She lays around in her house and has plowed up the whole bottom of the pen. It has about 6" of oyster shell under a layer that has built up over time of shavings, etc., and she hasn't gotten down to the shell yet, but she has pretty well dug up the whole thing. She is getting her pellets and I added a little rabbit pellets to it and chopped apple and banana. Also when I was weeding a flower bed, I took some of the weeds and cut the tops off and she ate the roots, and I had some collards here for the squirrel and she ate some of that. Also had a few rat biscuits...and some "hawg biscuits"...dog biscuits. Someone sent me a bunch of peanut butter flavored dog biscuits and my dogs don't care for them, but she likes them. She's not a picky eater. :)) I just got back from the Dollar Store and bought a ball for her...a little smaller than a basket ball. I thought she might enjoy pushing it around, but so far, is afraid of it. But all in all, she seems to be settling in nicely. She let me scratch her on the back, but she hasn't really shown any appreciation for it like my other pigs.

Most of the possums don't need rehabbing. People trap them because they get in their yards and eat their cat food. I relocate them. Fortunately, possums relocate easily...most wildlife doesn't. If they would just leave them alone and put up their darned cat food, the possums would move on. They seldom stay in one place for very long and they have a very short life span. I also get orphans that I raise and injured ones that truly do need help. Right now I have 5 possums here that are non releasable, one that is a baby, one that has a broken leg but is almost well, and one that could leave if she wanted to, and one that was raised by someone as a pet and is too tame to be turned loose because he has no aggression, whatsoever. Sometimes I have as many as 40 or more, tho.

I'm so sorry for you and Piggy Sue. This makes me so sad. Since I've started doing animal rescue, I have really come to dislike some people. I hope you get justice for you and Piggy Sue and he pays big time.