A piglet's life took a U-turn when she was brought to the Montreal SPCA earlier this month after being found on the side of the road.

Officials at the SPCA believe the piglet, named Rosalie, was destined for a factory farm. At just under a month old, all her teeth and her tail had been clipped -- something the SPCA says is standard practice in the pork industry.

The SPCA is now using Rosalie's story to denounce factory pig farming, as the piglet settles into her new life at an Ontario pig sanctuary.

"For us it's really important for the public to understand how incredible pigs really are," Montreal SPCA director Alanna Devine told CTV Montreal. "They're very smart, smarter than dogs actually. They're playful, they're sensitive."

Rosalie will now spend her days at Ruby Ranch Pig Sanctuary in Kenilworth, Ont.

There Rosalie will join Bardot, another piglet who was recently taken to Ruby Ranch after she was found wandering along a road near London, Ont.

Bardot and Rosalie will live with 21 other pigs at the sanctuary.

"They’re so smart and they want to live so bad, they’ll do anything," Ruby Ranch owner Sherry Burnett told CTV Kitchener.

The SPCA hopes the piglets' stories will help draw attention to the conditions pigs are often subjected to in factory farms.

Often, pigs in these settings spend their lives in tiny stalls called gestation crates, which the SPCA says causes "unimaginable physical and psychological suffering," as the crates are often so small pigs are unable to stretch, turn or lie down.

"These are incredible animals, sentient animals who are really, unfortunately, deprived of most of their basic needs and behaviours in factory farming conditions," Devine said.

Last month, the Retail Council of Canada announced that grocery chains Co-op Atlantic, Canada Safeway, Costco Wholesale Canada, Federated Co-operatives, Loblaw Companies Limited, Metro Inc., Sobeys Inc., and Wal-Mart Canada Corp. have agreed to stop buying from pork farmers that use gestation crates by 2022.

With files from CTV Montreal and CTV Kitchener