Pregnant Pig Matilda Flees The Farm To Go Give Birth In The Woods, Now Goes Viral Online

Matilda was lucky enough to be found and rescued on time

Maryjane

• Published in Animal Stories
• October 1, 2022

The strongest force on Earth is, without a doubt, the love a mother has for her child. Mothers go to extraordinary lengths to safeguard their children.

But it’s strange how this soon-to-be mother chose to defend her unborn children. In an extraordinary story that you're about to read, a pregnant pig escapes an industrial farm to safely give birth to her young in the woods.

In a forest near Nottingham, England, Anna Aston was out walking her dog when she came across a mother pig and her newly born piglets. She initially believed they might be wild boars, but she soon learned they were farm pigs.

Anna realized she had come across a really peculiar predicament at that point. The woman told BBC that she knew they weren't wild boar as they just looked like regular pigs.

"I was thinking, ‘This isn’t right’. You just don’t get them in the woods."

After calling Brinsley Animal Rescue out of concern for the little piglets' and their mother's safety, Jon Beresford and Beth Hewis went to look into it the next day. According to Jon, they discovered she had escaped from a nearby pig farm and given birth in the woods.

Anna Aston was pretty surprised to spot a mother pig and her newborn piglets

"The babies looked well, [but] she was thin and able to graze but not forage for food as she had a ring through her nose," Jon added. However, despite how unbelievable it may sound, the rescuers were unable to do much to save the mother and her children.

They just were unable to gather them and bring them to the shelter because Matilda, as they called her, escaped from a farm. 

"She had the maternal drive to escape and save her babies, but we couldn’t just collect them"

She had the mother instinct to flee and safeguard her young, but as Jon said, "We couldn’t just collect them." In the end, they did require the approval of the owners.

However, locating the owners proved to be an almost impossible feat, so the two rescuers turned to the media to help them.

"Matilda & her eight piglets have spent the first night of freedom with us resting"

Thankfully, the story went viral, and a happy ending was far closer than anyone had anticipated. But not without some good efforts! 

Matilda and her children were eventually taken back to the farm where she escaped from. They now have a place to live for the rest of their lives, and it is all thanks to a fundraising drive, a lot of good people, and tenacious efforts. 

Matilda is such a good mother to her kids

The animal rescue posted on Facebook saying:

"Matilda and her eight piglets have spent the first night of freedom with us resting. She is such a good mother to them; now she no longer needs to worry about their plight."

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Maryjane