A newborn piglet was rescued from an untimely death on the road -- and the slaughterhouse -- when a driver found it in central England.
Anthony Davies spotted the tiny animal in Poolsbrook, Derbyshire. He was able to drive around it and then went back and picked it up.
The piglet, now named Squeaky, is being raised at the RSPCA Animal Center in Chesterfield. Staffers there said they believe it was born in a truck that was hauling its mother and then rolled off.
"She is a lucky little pig and she is one of the most unusual arrivals we have had," Richard Woodwards, the center's manager, told The Daily Mail. "She can't have been more than half an hour old when she was brought in because her umbilical cord was attached, and it was still wet."
When Squeaky has been weaned from the bottle, the pig will be released to a good home -- one where she can live out her natural life with no risk of ending up as dinner.
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