A female pig who escaped death now has a safe place to call home with her new litter after she was rescued off Highway 50. The pregnant pig, who was eventually named Rita, managed to safely leap off a ...

On June 14, Anna Aston was out walking a dog in Ollerton, England, when she spotted something unusual in the woods: a large pig and its litter of piglets. “I knew they weren’t wild boar; they just ...

* Egypt begins slaughtering pig herds despite U.N. criticism * Egypt will offer meat of killed pigs for human consumption * Army to be enlisted to help with mass slaughter (Adds villagers hiding pigs, ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt started seizing and slaughtering herds of pigs on Thursday as a precaution against swine flu, officials and farmers said, despite resistance by farmers and criticism from the ...