Woman learns to love giant pet pig

LAUGHTERON, England, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A woman in eastern England says she has learned to love the giant porker she bought as a piglet believing it to be a micropig.

Meeka now weighs upward of 200 pounds, The Sun reported. Janey Byrne of Laughteron, Lincolnshire, said the breeder told her the pig when full-grown would be the size of a springer spaniel and weigh in at no more than 30 pounds.

The pig is 5 feet long and stands 2 1/2 feet high.

But Byrne said she loves every ounce. And she said her husband, who was worried that feeding the pig would empty their savings, has learned to love Meeka as well.

"At first, her size was a bit of a shock and my husband Dave thought she'd eat us out of house and home," she said. "But I knew he'd come round because it's impossible not to love her. When Dave gets back from work he loves snuggling up on the sofa with Meeka and watching TV."

Byrne said she and her husband spend 200 pounds (more than $300) every month to feed Meeka, who chomps through 10 bags of carrots and apples a week.